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The Songbird Is Singing: Scenes from a Welsh Childhood in the 1920s
Alun Trevor
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Description for The Songbird Is Singing: Scenes from a Welsh Childhood in the 1920s
paperback. Despite talk of bulls, bears and stock-market crashes, the depression meant little to young brothers Alun and Arthur as they carved their initials into the sycamore tree below Hope Mountain. They longed to see the great ships that would bring their father home. Eagerly they follow the progress of their father, famous Welsh tenor Jabez Trevor. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 3JJG; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 352.
Despite talk of bulls, bears and stock-market crashes, the depression meant little to young brothers Alun and Arthur as they carved their initials into the sycamore tree below Hope Mountain; read Mark Twain and longed to see the great ships that would bring their father home. Eagerly they follow the progress of their father, famous Welsh tenor Jabez Trevor, as he tours North America season after season, the Welsh Imperial Singers packing concert halls coast to coast and their dad sending home postcards, letters and presents from Chicago, Winnipeg, New York - Eight-year-old Arthur hated to read and write, sang ... Read more
Despite talk of bulls, bears and stock-market crashes, the depression meant little to young brothers Alun and Arthur as they carved their initials into the sycamore tree below Hope Mountain; read Mark Twain and longed to see the great ships that would bring their father home. Eagerly they follow the progress of their father, famous Welsh tenor Jabez Trevor, as he tours North America season after season, the Welsh Imperial Singers packing concert halls coast to coast and their dad sending home postcards, letters and presents from Chicago, Winnipeg, New York - Eight-year-old Arthur hated to read and write, sang ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Parthian Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906998066
SKU
V9781906998066
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Ref
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About Alun Trevor
Alun Trevor had a Welsh country up-bringing during the 1920s in Treuddyn, a coal-mining and farming village south of Mold, Flintshire. He was educated at the Coed Talon Elementary school and at the Alun Grammar School in Mold. After matriculation he began work with the Flintshire Education Department in 1938. He volunteered for the RAF in 1940 and began ... Read more
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