The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood - Softcover

Jarman, Eldra; Jarman, A. O. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708323987 ISBN 13: 9780708323984

Verlag: University of Wales Press, 2011

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Reseña del editor:

The Gypsy family of Abram Wood first arrived in Wales in the eighteenth century, a tawny-skinned people speaking a language close to Hindi and Sanskrit. Welsh society found their customs strange and sometimes unacceptable. The family included such colourful characters as Abram Wood himself, their chieftain, who always rode a pedigree horse but died in a cowshed on the slopes of Cader Idris; Silvaina, who was feared as a witch and who insisted that Robin her mule could understand every word of her Romani speech and Harry, who tried to emulate his idol Dick Turpin by riding a farm horse madly around a field. The Wood family, from Abram to the twentieth century, also provided Wales with many famous skilled harpists and fiddlers who performed Welsh music.

Biografía del autor:

Eldra Jarman is a descendant of Abram Wood. She is a great-granddaughter of John Roberts of Newtown and inherited the family gift for harp-playing.

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• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0708323987
• ISBN 13: 9780708323984
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256