Download or read book Real Cardiff written by Peter Finch and published by Real Wales. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A further alternative illustrated guide to Cardiff offering interesting information about the past and present of the outlying areas of the city, their streets, churches and pubs, railways and industries, place names and famous personalities. A sequel to Real Cardiff. 78 black-and-white photographs and 3 maps.
Download or read book Real Cardiff The Flourishing City None written by Peter Finch and published by Real. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Finch explores his native city with characteristic brio in the richly eclectic new volume of Real Cardiff, which looks at the city's rapid expansion over the past two decades and its status as one of the best capitals in Europe. Highlights include Roald Dahl in Radyr, the hanging of Dic Penderyn and the ornate Mahogany Room above Burger King.
Download or read book Real Powys written by Mike Parker and published by Real Wales. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observant, passionate, witty, offbeat, Mike Parker tours Powys from the border towns of Hay on Wye, Presteigne and Knighton, through the interior and on to the furthest points of Newtown, Penybont, Ystradgynlais and Brecon. What surprises does he stumble upon among the mountains, forests, streams and farms of this mysterious countryside?
Download or read book Real Cardiff Three written by Peter Finch and published by Real Wales. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume: Cardiffian Peter Finch discovers the real Cardiff: lost rivers, Roman forts, holy wells, Arthurian knights, itinerant poets, the old race course, the revitalised city centre, the redeveloped Cardiff Bay - 'Europe's most exciting waterfront' - as he travels the city from east to west and north to south. This is offbeat topographical writing, peppered with Finch's poems, which will enthrall the native, the visitor and the armchair traveller. Peter Finch is a poet who has been at the centre of Cardiff's literary life for thirty years. Formerly the manager of the Oriel Bookshop, he is now Director of Academi, the writer's organisation for Wales. In horse racing parlance it's odds on that this book will be just as popular as the first two which went into reprints.
Download or read book John Charles written by Mario Risoli and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Whenever I look at him, it is as though the Messiah has returned.’ That's how Jimmy Murphy, manager of Wales’ 1958 World Cup side, described John Charles. In Italy, where he played for Juventus and Roma, Charles was known as Il Gigante Buono – the Gentle Giant – because of his placid temperament. One of the greatest footballers Britain has ever produced, Charles left his native Swansea at 16 to join Leeds United, where his phenomenal strike rate helped the club reach the First Division for the first time in its history. His goal-scoring exploits at Ellan Road then attracted the attention of Juventus, who paid a British record of £65,000 to take him to Turin in 1957. Charles went on to score an incredible 105 goals in 178 appearances for I Bianconeri – the Black and Whites – and helped them to win three Series A titles in five years. In contrast to his humble upbringing in South Wales, he enjoyed a glamorous lifestyle in Italy. However, it was not all glory. A disasterous return to Leeds United in 1962 was followed by a spell at Roma, where he struggled to recapture his past form. The man who was treated as a god in Turin wound down his playing career with Cardiff City before turning to management in the Southern League. This detailed and engrossing biography contains candid interviews with former teammates and family members and follows Charles’ life after football, detailing his failed business ventures and his brave fight against cancer.
Download or read book The Big Book of Cardiff written by Peter Finch and published by Seren Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writing about Cardiff, celebrating 50 years since the city was made Wales' capital. This work includes contributions from some of the finest writers in Britain, all of whom have something personal and original to say about the city, both in English and in translation from the Welsh - Niall Griffiths, Dannie Abse, and others.
Download or read book Real Cardiff written by Peter Finch and published by Real Wales. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of an interesting alternative guide to Cardiff, with special attention to venues not actually on the tourist route, some locations having disappeared as new developments take place, with a useful bibliography and index. 63 black-and-white photographs and 1 map.
Download or read book Fakes written by Ann Weil and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you grow a spaghetti tree? Who saw fairies down by the creek? A fake is something that is not what it seems to be. Fakes are meant to trick people.
Download or read book David Harum written by Edward Noyes Westcott and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a shrewd, crusty small-town banker in upstate New York who has an abundant fund of humour, an obvious talent for horse trading, and a strong streak of Yankee decency.
Download or read book The Little Book of Cardiff written by David Collins and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors David and Gareth take a trip through the places, peculiarities and past practices of Cardiff, stopping off to sample the culinary (and alcoholic) delights of the city along the way. From Clark's Pies and a heaped helping of 'Half and Half' to the oddities of the 'Kaairdiff' accent, this fact-packed compendium reveals the contributions Cardiff has made to the history of the nation and recalls some of its famous faces – Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church and Frank Hennessy amongst them – and popular attractions. This book is guaranteed to entertain, amuse and surprise everyone who picks it up.
Download or read book Literary Mapping in the Digital Age written by David Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how geospatial technologies are revolutionizing the discipline of literary studies. The book offers the first intensive examination of digital literary cartography, a field whose recent and rapid development has yet to be coherently analysed. This collection not only provides an authoritative account of the current state of the field, but also informs a new generation of digital humanities scholars about the critical and creative potentials of digital literary mapping. The book showcases the work of exemplary literary mapping projects and provides the reader with an overview of the tools, techniques and methods those projects employ.
Download or read book Capital Cardiff 1975 2020 written by Alan Hooper and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how the city of Cardiff has managed to transform itself in recent years, this book analyses the way in which its local governments have promoted an economic, social, cultural, physical and environmental transformation through a wide range of policy initiatives and partnerships with governments, agencies and enterprises.
Download or read book Reinventing a Small Worldly City written by Ana Gonçalves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Cardiff, the capital city of Wales in the UK, this book reflects on a contemporary small European city – its development, characteristics, and present struggles. Following a century in which it was dubbed the world’s ‘coaltropolis’, the decline in demand for coal meant that Cardiff endured an acute process of de-industrialisation. In seeking to address this and the related high levels of unemployment, it has experienced a process of cultural and social reinvention since the 1980s, and more significantly after Wales turned into a devolved nation in the late 1990s. Cardiff’s development from a small port into a capital city is examined and special attention is paid to the city’s cultural and social transformation in recent decades that has relied on the expansion of specific cultural clusters and tourism, which have been decisive for the transformation of its cultural identity and in shaping the city’s individual and collective memories and identities. Cardiff epitomises a quintessential case of urban reinvention, cultural regeneration, and social transformation, lying between two apparently contradictory paradigms: the need to respond to global demands and the effort to maintain its cultural distinctiveness and Welsh roots. Therefore, it sets the scene for a wider reflection on small cities, especially in the European setting, and what generally characterises these cities: their liveability, cultural creativity and community empowerment, as well as the fact that they facilitate mobility and social interaction. These worldly cities, the book contends, present interesting opportunities and challenges at the urban, economic, social and cultural levels that rely on more human-scale, people-based approaches to cities, thus defying existing urban hierarchies and categorisations.
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