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Wild Wales

Wild Wales
George Borrow

Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow , first published in 1862.

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“Sherry…a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.”

George Borrow book Wild Wales

Wild Wales (1862), ch. 38.

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