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Pebbles on the Beach - A Spotter's Guide
Pebbles on the Beach - A Spotter's Guide
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Canllaw bywiog i bleserau syml chwilio am ac adnabod cerigach glan môr, wedi'i baratoi gan dywysydd gwybodus a doniol.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
This is a spirited guide to the simple pleasure of pebble spotting. Clarence Ellis is a charming, knowledgeable and witty guide to everything you didn't know there was to know about pebbles. A handy illustrated guide to identifying pebbles is included on the reverse of this book jacket.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780571347933
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780571347933
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Pebbles on the Beach - A Spotter's Guide
- Awdur / Author
- Ellis, Clarence
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2018-08-02
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 176 pages
- Size
- 200 × 135 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Taith, Twristiaeth, Teithlyfrau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Travel, Tourism, Guide Books (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Teithlyfrau - Arall (yn Saesneg) | EN: Travel Writing - Other (in English)
Cynnwys / Table of Contents
List of beaches – The Pebbles on the Beach by Clarence Ellis: • Dorset Coast (Chesil Beach) • Suffolk Coast (Aldeburgh, Orford Ness) • Sussex (the Crumbles, Eastborne beach) • Cinque Ports coastline (Dungeness) • Yorkshire Coast (Whitby, Scarborough) • The Northumberland coast (Holy Island, the Farne Islands archipelago, and sand dunes in bays north of Dunstanburgh Castle.) • Marsden Bay • Northumbrian shore • Durham coast • Yorkshire (Runswick Bay, Whitby, Scarborough, Filey Bay) • Norfolk (Sheringham, Hunstanton, Blakeney Point, Cromer) • Felixstowe beach • Beaches of Sandwich and Deal • East Sussex (Crumbles/Langley Point, Eastbourne Beach) • Beaches of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight • Portsmouth Harbour • Beaches of Bonchurch, Ventnor and Niton - Sandown Bay • Weymouth, Devon and Cornwall (Weymouth beach, Portland beach) • Lyme Bay beaches • Oddicombe and Babbacombe beaches • Broad Sands • Marazion and Penzance beaches • Beach of Whitesand Bay and Cape Cornwall • Beaches of Watergate Bay, Beacon Cove and Mawgan Porth • Cornish Coast (Trebarwith Strand and Hole Beach • Woody Bay, Lee Bay, Lynton, Porlock Bay • Bridgewater Bay, Weston Bay, Sand Bay • Swansea Bay • Carmarthen Bay • Cardigan Bay, Fishguard Bay, Newport Bay • New Quay Bay • Clarach Bay • Llanbedrog Beach • Beaches of Llanbedrog, Abersoch and Porth Caered • Aberdaron Bay • North Wales (Porth Dinlleyn, Porth Nevin, Rhosneigr and Cymmyran Bay) • Holy Island (Borth Wen (Rhoscolyn) and Trearddur Bay) • Beaches of Llanfairfechan and Penmaenmawr • Rhos-on-Sea and Colwyn Bay • Blackpool beach • Cockersand Abbey beach • Saltom Bay, Fleswick Bay
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Clarence Ellis was born in Holyhead in 1889. He studied History at Bangor and served on the Western Front before beginning a career in Further Education. His private passion was pebble collecting, and Pebbles on the Beach was first published in 1954.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
He ruminates on what a pebble actually is, before showing us how they are formed, advising on the best pebblespotting grounds in the UK, helping to identify individual stones, and giving tips on the necessary kit. You'll know your chert from your schist, your onyx from your agate and will be on your guard for artificial intruders before you know it. Understanding the humble pebble makes a trip to the beach, lake-side or river bank simply that little bit more fascinating. Pebble-hunting is a pleasant hobby that makes little demand upon one's patience and still less upon one's physical energy. (You may even enjoy the hunt from the luxurious sloth of a deck chair). One of the true delights of the pebble-seeker is to read the stories in the stones - to determine whence and by what means they came to be there. We must always bear in mind that a pebble is a transient thing. It is in the half-way stage of a long existence...
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