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Travel writing in a Precarious Century – a walk to Bardsey
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at walk · listen · create's Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to have author El Rhodes join us in May, talking about "All Among the Saints" a story about a walk to Bardsey, one of a dozen new pieces in a new anthology of travel writing turning a Welsh gaze on the rest of the world.
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