- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Y Lolfa (28 Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0862436095
- ISBN-13: 978-0862436094
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.8 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 915,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dewi Roberts, gwales.com
The Dylan Thomas Trail has all the strengths of the good guide book and is copiously illustrated...
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The Dylan Thomas Trail takes you through the beautifal countryside of Ceredigion. It passes the villages, farms and mansions where Dylan lived and wrote, and introduces you to many of the pubs where he enjoyed a pint and the conversation of local characters. Starting in the sea-faring village of llanon, the trail follows ancient footpaths and quiet country lanes to Tal-sarn and then to Aberaeron. From here, it continues along the heritage coast, with fine views of Cardigan Bay and its bottle-nosed dolphins. The walk finishes in New Quay with a vivid description of the people and streets that so influenced the writing of Under Milk Wood.
This guide will also be of great interest to armchair fans of Dylan. It contains lots of new and fascinating information-all illustrated with superb photographs and period advertisements, which convey the atmosphere of the Cardiganshire that Dylan knew and loved, and which inspired some of his finest writing.
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Dylan Thomas,
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This review is from: The Dylan Thomas Trail (Paperback)
It has always been assumed that Laugharne provided the genesis for Llaregub in Under Milk Wood, but the author, with quiet authority, succeeds in persuading us that the true inspiration is, in fact, New Quay. Dylan and Caitlin lived there for a year during the Second World War, and during that time he became well acquainted both with the area and many of its people. There are bound to be those who will claim that David Thomas makes bold claims in the light of too little evidence and that Llaregub could have been the result of an amalgam of various south-west Wales locations; but it is to the credit of the author's research that I find so many of his conclusions utterly convincing. For example, he suggests that PC Islwyn Williams provided the basis for the lumbering PC Attila Rees in the play. Quite apart from anything else, Dylan would have known Williams, for this venerable officer payed particular attention to unruly behaviour outside local pubs at closing time - and these, of course, were pubs which Dylan used. Circumstantial evidence of this kind is summoned up throughout the book to support the thrust of the claims being advanced. The now notorious episode when William Killick, an SOE commando, peppered Dylan's bugalow with bullets following a difference of opinion in a pub, is dealt with in some detail and, interestingly, it was PC Islwyn Williams who arrested him. The Dylan Thomas Trail has all the strengths of the good guide book and is copiously illustrated with both period photographs of people and places, as well as advertisements of the time - a very potent source of nostalgia. The book can be read both as a social history of New Quay during the war and as a popular account of a year in the life of one of the greatest twentieth-century poets. It is an invaluable companion volume to the same author's A Farm, Two Mansions and A Bungalow, published two years ago, and deserves to become a popular success. Dewi Roberts (a review from gwales)
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