George Borrow
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George Henry Borrow was an English writer of novels and of travel based on personal experiences in Europe. His travels gave him a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, who figure strongly i
1843 portrait by Henry Wyndham Phillips at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Wild Wales
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Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow, first published in 1862.
George Borrow
…his travels were in the UK: long walking tours in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and the Isle of Man. Of these, only the Welsh tour yielded a book, Wild Wales (1862). Borrow's restlessness, perhaps, led to the family, which had lived in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in the 1850s, moving to London in the 1860s…
Wild Wales Its People Language and Scenery
Borrow's Route in Wild Wales