The Marches of Wales
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Harper, Charles G.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Marches of Wales: Notes and Impressions on the Welsh Borders, From the Severn Sea to the Sands O´dee My Dear Mr. Penderel-Brodhurst, I inscribe this book to you, not because you have any especial acquaintance with the line of country of which it treats, nor, indeed, that your antiquarian sympathies have crystallized into an enthusiasm for the history of the Marches of Wales, beyond the lively interest which the story of the borders has, and should have, for the Englishman whose interest in politics and political geography goes back beyond the merely Parliamentary squabbles of this little day. The Wrekin, it is true, comes within the horizon of your Staffordshire home, but you are no Salopian for all that. Yet I claim you for that county, if only by reason of your seventeenth-century forbears, the Penderels of Boscobel, who performed such service to King and State when, after Worcester fight, they concealed the royal fugitive at Boscobel, just within the Shropshire borders. That is one reason for my dedicating this book to yourself; but not the chiefest. No: it is rather upon grounds more personal to myself that I dedicate this book to you, for you can (perhaps more than any other) understand why this is not - as I could wish it had been - a pure History of the Marches, rather than a series of historical doses administered in the guise of a touring book - the unpalatable dryness of historical facts sweetened, so far as my ability lay, by an engaging popular treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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