Esmé - Guardian of Snowdonia

ISBN: 9781847719553

Publication Date October 2016
Publisher: Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont

Format: Clawr Meddal, 215x140 mm, 160 pages

Language: English

A profile of Esmé Kirby, the conservationist who formed the Snowdonia National Park Society. Her career began as an actress, and at 23 she married Thomas Firbank, whose bestselling book, I Bought a Mountain(1940) tells of their married life at Dyffryn, a 3,000-acre farm near Capel Curig. 35 photographs. Reprint. First published in 2014.

Hanes bywyd Esmé Kirby - cadwraethwraig a sefydlydd Cymdeithas Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri - ar fferm 3,000 erw Dyffryn Mymbyr ger Capel Curig, lle treuliodd bron i 70 mlynedd yn trin y tir a'r anifeiliaid. Cofnodwyd ei bywyd priodasol cynnar gan ei gŵr, Thomas Firbank, yn ei gyfrol I Bought a Mountain(1940). 35 llun. Adargraffiad. Cyhoeddwyd yn gyntaf yn 2014.