An evening with… Andrew Green

Voices on the Path takes a meandering route through this history, beginning with the footprints of Mesolithic people in the intertidal mud of the Severn estuary and ending with strollers on Swansea’s promenade today. Along the way, the reader is invited to rest and spend time with some of the most interesting walkers, including Gerald of Wales, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Kilvert, George Borrow, Anne Lister, Ursula Martin, Hanna Engelkamp and Delyth Jenkins. Their individual voices enliven the narrative. The reader will also meet a host of other remarkable walkers, many of them little known, and, through the eyes of walkers, will learn much about how Welsh people lived, and how Wales was seen by people from outside.

Voices on the Path will interest anyone interested in walking, the social history of Wales (including traditions of pilgrimage, industrial labour, protest, language, tourism and recreation), and the history of literature in both Welsh and English. It is not designed as an academic book, but end-notes allow readers to follow up the printed and manuscript sources used.