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11 produkter
Travels in an Old Tongue
Touring the World Speaking Welsh
Av Pamela Petro
Häftad, 1998
151 kr
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Studying in Lampeter, Dyfed and learning Welsh, Pamela Petro found it infuriating that whenever she stumbled with her Welsh, the locals would always revert to English. She decided to go where English was not an option - all kinds of unlikely places with long-standing Welsh-speaking communities. She …
Sitting Up With the Dead
A Storied Journey Through the American South
Av Pamela Petro
Häftad, 2008
195 kr
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An enthralling, rollicking tour among the storytellers of the American Deep South.The story of the South is not finished. The southeastern states of America, the old Confederacy, bristle with storytellers who refuse to be silent. Many of the tales passed down from generation to generation to be …
Sitting Up With the Dead
A Storied Journey Through the American South
Av Pamela Petro
E-bok, 2016
120 kr
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An enthralling, rollicking tour among the storytellers of the American Deep South.The story of the South is not finished. The southeastern states of America, the old Confederacy, bristle with storytellers who refuse to be silent. Many of the tales passed down from generation to generation to be …
Travels in an Old Tongue
Touring the World Speaking Welsh
Av Pamela Petro
E-bok, 2016
118 kr
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The idiosyncratic and witty travelogue of a young Welsh-speaking woman who travels the globe in search of Welsh communities.Studying in Lampeter, Dyfed, and learning Welsh, Pamela Petro found it infuriating that whenever – in the post office, at the butcher’s, in the pub – she stumbled with her …
Slow Breath of Stone
A Romanesque Love Story
Av Pamela Petro
E-bok, 2011
69 kr
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An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.In the years following the devastations of the first world war, a brilliant, young …
Sitting Up With The Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South
Av Pamela Petro
E-bok, 2012
93 kr
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Stories provide the connective tissue of the South. The intrepid Pamela Petro drives from the Carolinas to the Appalachians to the Atlantic seaboard, from Virginia''s valleys to Louisiana''s swamps to meet the mesmerizing guardians of its history: the storytellers, who often double as local, or …
Sitting Up with the Dead
A Storied Journey through the American South
Av Pamela Petro
E-bok, 2017
173 kr
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For the first time in paperback, an acclaimed look at the American South through the lenses of its most acclaimed storytellers and their tales. Rarely does a nonfiction work come along that is as original and refreshing as Sitting Up with the Dead . Here, take a ride with Pamela Petro as she …
The Long Field
Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir
Av Pamela Petro
Inbunden, 2023
315 kr
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For readers of H Is for Hawk , an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as …
Long Field
Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir
Av Pamela Petro
E-bok, 2023
106 kr
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For readers of H Is for Hawk , an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as …
Long Field
A memoir
Av Pamela Petro
Inbunden, 2021
232 kr
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The Long Field burrows deep into the Welsh countryside to tell how this small country became a big part of an American writer's life. Petro, author of Travels in an Old Tongue, twines her story around that of Wales by viewing both through the lens of hiraeth, a quintessential Welsh word famously …
Long Field
Av Pamela Petro
Häftad, 2023
165 kr
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The paperback edition of the highly acclaimed memoir in which the American travel writer, Pamela Petro, writes a love letter to Wales and explores the meaning of 'hiraeth', a famously hard to translate word which approximates to a deep longing for an irretrievable place, person or time. The Long …
