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Llyfrau | Books

• North Wales Male Voice Choirs

  

  Here both choristers and conductors speak informally of the buzz that excites them to greater achievement. They talk of the people who inspired them, every one with their own brand of expertise - often eccentricity too.

  £8.50

• Trees of the Celtic Saints

  

  Andrew Morton looks at the botanical characteristics of yew trees, and how to measure and age them; at yew trees in pre-Christian and Christian literature, myths and legends; and at the connections between yews and the sites of ancient Christian settlements.

  £7.50

• Pigsties and Paradise - Lady Diarists and the Tour of Wales, 1795-1860

  

  This book is based on the diaries of some of the intrepid English gentry women who travelled around Wales between 1795 and 1860, initially by coach and carriage but latterly by train.

  £7.50

• Faithful Hound - Beddgelert and the Truth About Its Legend

  

  Beddgelert's best known attribute is also the supposed explanation of its name, the grave of Gelert, traditionally the faithful hound of Llywelyn the Great, slain by him in a rash moment.

  £5.50

• Coracle Family of the World, The

  

  The book explains - and illustrates - the difference between coracles on rivers in Wales and England, looks at the Scottish and Irish versions of the craft, and then at the coracles of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia - especially at Vietnam, the only place in the world where coracles are thriving.

  £6.95

• Travels of a Welsh Preacher in the USA

  

  In 1883 a Welsh Methodist Minister, William Davies Evans, published his book Dros Gyfanfor a Chyfandir ('Across Ocean and Continent'), describing his travels in the United States. This publication is the first English translation from the original Welsh text.

  £12.00

• Voyages of the Celtic Saints

  

  An account of the voyages and maritime navigations of the saints during the early Middle Ages. These voyages linked the Celtic societies of western Britain, Ireland and Brittany with Christian centres of the Mediterranean such as Rome, Athens, Egypt and Palestine.

  £7.50

• Children's War, The: Evacuees on a North Pembrokeshire Farm

  

  The history of evacuees in northern Pembrokeshire during the Second World War. Ken Foskett's early days were spent in Norwood, near London, and it was from here that he and his sister were evacuated to a hillside farm in Pembrokeshire at the start of the Second World War.

  £9.50

• Llywelyn Bren (Compact History of Welsh Heroes)

  

  An account of the revolt of Llywelyn Bren of Morgannwg in the 14th century.

  £5.00

• Standing Stones of North-Western Wales, The

  

  A highly interesting volume tracing the history and significance of the standing stones of north-western Wales, especially their possible association with ley lines, trackways, burial sites and astronomy.

  £5.50