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Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh Paperback – 1 Jun. 1998
| Pamela Petro (Author) See search results for this author |
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- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date1 Jun. 1998
- Dimensions12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-10000655010X
- ISBN-13978-0006550105
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Pamela Petro has been educated at Brown, Paris and Harvard Universities; in 1983 she went to the University of Wales at Lampeter for the first time, to do her MA, returning in 1992 for intensive instruction in the Welsh language. She has since taught Welsh and travel writing in the USA. She regularly contributes to the‘New York Times’ Travel Section and to ‘Planet’, and has compiled a guide to New England. This is her first ‘real’ book. She has, by the way, ‘no’ Welsh blood.
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- Publisher : Flamingo; Revised ed. edition (1 Jun. 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 000655010X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0006550105
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 387,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As I already knew before purchasing - the book is 99% in english. Amazon states that this book is in Welsh - it isn’t! It’s about someone using the Welsh language as she travels around the world - but the vast majority of the text is in english.
2ndly - just a little disappointed to discover that text-to-speech is not enabled. It’s the first Kindle book I’ve bought which hasn’t had this option. I know the Welsh phrases woukd have sounded odd - but that would have amused me, and it’s such a small portion of the text, that it wouldn’t have mattered.
Would recommend the seller.

