Non Fiction
ISBN: 9781781722190
Publication date: December 1, 2014
Price: £9.99
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Gower was the first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the UK and is rightly famous for its beaches, its surfing and its history.
Real Gower joins the two halves of lordship of Gower, the tourism of the peninsula (Gower Anglicana) and the more remote ‘Gower of the Hills’ in the centre and north (Gower Wallicana), place of traditional work. Their differences are linked by a dramatically beautiful landscape. Here are the cliffs, bays and beaches of the south coast, including the iconic Worm’s Head and Rhossili, with their castles, disappearing industrial remains and literary links. And here too are the rugged moorlands stretching north to Pennlle’r Castell on Mynydd y Gwair, start of the Gower Way, with their farms, quiet ruins and slopes to the Loughor Estuary.
Nigel Jenkins, Gower born and raised, brings a rich mix of history, personal memory and intimate insights as he walks the territory and writes about the place he loved best, in what was to be his last book before his untimely death in 2014.
Nigel Jenkins
Nigel Jenkins (1949 – 2014) was born on a farm in Gower, Wales. He was a poet, a prize-winning prose writer, and was joint editor of the UWP Welsh Encyclopaedia. He wrote about the Gower, and the impact of the Welsh in India in the award-winning Khasia in Gwalia. He was a lecturer in English at the University of Swansea and was well known and energetically active in Swansea’s cultural life. His books Real Swansea and Real Swansea Two are part of the popular Seren ‘Real’ series.
