Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Camping on the Wye
Camping on the Wye
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Ffacsimili o gofnod swynol a doniol S. K. Baker, o anturiaethau pedwar myfyriwr o oes Fictoria a hwyliodd mewn ysgraff ar afon Gwy gan wersylla ar lan yr afon yn ystod gwyliau coleg ddiwedd y 1880au. Roedd S. K. Baker yn artist ac yn ddyddiadurwr a gofnododd yr antur mewn dwy gyfrol o baentiadau dyfrlliw.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Four Victorian students and their adventures in a skiff on the River Wye. During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S. K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the River Wye. Baker, a keen artist and diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781472945181
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781472945181
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Camping on the Wye
- Awdur / Author
- Baker, S. K.
- Current Price ex VAT
- £10.00
- Current Price inc VAT
- £10.00
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2017-05-31
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 160 pages
- Size
- 153 × 208 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Taith, Twristiaeth, Teithlyfrau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Travel, Tourism, Guide Books (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Teithlyfrau - Cymru (yn Saesneg) | EN: Travel Writing - Wales (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
S. K. Baker was a student at University College, London in the late 1880s but little is known of his later life. Michael Goffe, the owner of the books, is a descendant of one of S.K. Baker's fellow travellers (GG in the book).
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
The result is an entirely charming, funny account along the lines of the legendary Three Men in a Boat with which the notebooks are entirely contemporaneous although the protagonists are younger and possibly naughtier. Baker records their evenings in the pub, their encounters with girls, (both ashore and afloat), nude swimming and culinary disasters, while recording lovingly the landscape and the boats on which they sailed. The notebook is published as a facsimile with an introduction by Michael Goffe, the son of one of Baker's fellow students (GG in the text), to whom it was gifted.
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