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The
writer and linguist, George Borrow, was your archetypal Victorian gentleman.
Born in Norwich in 1803, he learned to speak Welsh by twice reading a
copy of Paradise Lost in the language as a young man. From that moment
on he planned a grand tour of the Principality but it took him 34 years
to realise his dream.
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visited Llangollen during the summer of 1854 as part of this grand tour
of Wales and used the town as his base for the most part. As a result,
a substantial amount of the book describes the town and its inhabitants
all those years ago.
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Wales is widely accepted as being the first modern travel-log. Unlike
his predecessors such as Pennant, Borrow described Victorian Llangollen,
as well as its inhabitants, in great detail and it is fascinating to be
able to visit some of these places and view the effects of the last 150
years.
bviously,
there are tremendous differences between the Llangollen of Borrow and
that of today but, if you read Wild Wales, you'll see that one thing hasn't
changed at all - the superb scenery and special atmosphere that makes
Llangollen so special.
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