This book takes the reader on an armchair tour of the sacred places of Wales, a tiny country in the western region of the British Isles that has retained much of its Celtic culture and language. (Foreign Travel)

From Hywel Da to Gwynfor Evans, from Dafydd Wigley to Dafydd Iwan, from O.M.

Edwards to Robert Ambrose Jones, from Llywelyn ap Gruffydd to Owain Glyndwr, from

David Lloyd George to Jim Griffiths, the leaders of Wales have shown their adaptability

and courage, their resilience and their courage, their grandiose dreams and their eloquent

hopes. They have long shown that an independent Wales belongs in the councils of

Europe. Its time has been long overdue. In the meantime, "In spite of all and everything,"

as Dafydd Iwan so searchingly reminds us in his patriotic song Yma O Hyd ( "We are...

In many ways, despite its appalling record in many areas, especially its major participation in

the heinous slave trade, England and its British partners created the modern world. Its

representative government, along with its rapid industrialization, explorers and empire builders,

and rugged individualism placed the little island at the cutting edge of political and social

innovation.