WALES: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts

Archaeology, architecture, culture and customs, national costume, national parks, movers and shakers, art, literature and language, celebrities, Tom Jones's telephone box, black gold and industry, fun and games and weird sports like snorkelling which saved a Victorian spa town and the great Orme Tramway where day trippers share their journey with a coffin, to the Welsh lad Arthur Linton (1868-1896) who got on his bike and became the Champion Cyclist of the World. Wales is a small country but one with a rich and varied history despite its size with contributions and a passion for song, poetry, sport, food, fun and humour, an ancient land of myths and legend and curious traditions. Discover how Welsh pioneers changed the world, powered flight, and all about the world's first industrialised nation with its prehistoric copper mines to the black gold that fuelled the Industrial Revolution. Facts to amuse and intrigue. 144pp, well illus.