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Cardiff (Pocket Guides)

Cardiff (Pocket Guides)

by JohnDavies (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $3.40
Synopsis

This guide to Cardiff explains the history and present aspects of the city. Starting with the heart of the city at the castle and the Roman occupation, the guide then moves on to the medieval fortifications and then to the extravagance of Bute and Burgess.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 29 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 0708317308
ISBN 13: 9780708317303

Media Reviews
'Through its presentation of the shadier aspects of Cardiff's history, as well as its attractions, and through John Davies's interest in the city's people as well as its institutions, not only is A Pocket Guide: Cardiff an informative guide, it is also a highly illuminating and thought-provoking book.' gwales.com John Davies provides a scholarly and accessible guide to the history of Wales's capital ... it is written with elegance and elan, and is crammed full of a cosmopolitan mixture of facts and insights ... Cardiff: A Pocket Guide provides a stylish, lucid and authoritative introduction to two millennia of human society on the banks of the Taff ...' (Welsh History Review)
Author Bio
John Davies was a historian and lecturer at the University of Aberystwyth, encompassing work on the development of the Welsh landscape and the history of Cardiff.