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The paperback edition of the highly acclaimed memoir in which the American travel writer, Pamela Petro, writes a love letter to Wales and explores the meaning of 'hiraeth'.

For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss, a cultural meditation, and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of WalesHiraeth, literally "long field" in Welsh but famously hard to translate, means far more than its English approximation of "homesickness." It is something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time-an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Lo...

The Long Field burrows deep into the Welsh countryside to tell how this small country became a big part of an American writer's life. Petro twines her story around that of Wales by viewing both through the lens of hiraeth, the name for the bone-deep longing for something or someone - a home, culture, language, or a younger self.

An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.

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Travelling back and forth, from the Carolinas to Louisiana, from the Appalachians to Atlantic islands, and sitting before bewitching storytellers, Pamela Petro gathers up a fistful of history, and sieves out of it the shiny truths that these stories have been polishing over the years.

For the first time in paperback, an acclaimed look at the American South through the lenses of its most acclaimed storytellers and their tales.Rarely does a nonfiction work come along that is as original and refreshing as Sitting Up with the Dead. Here, take a ride with Pamela Petro as she embarks on a series of road trips through the states of the Old South to collect its stories and meet its tellers of traditional tales. Some of them are loc...

A distinctly idiosyncratic travelogue, describing a young Welsh-speaking woman's search for Welsh communities around the world - and how she found them in places such as Hong Kong, Japan, Norway and Patagonia.