Esmé
Subtitle: guardian of Snowdonia
By: Teleri Bevan
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Talybont, Ceredigion
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781847719553
Subjects: Sheep farming; Social life and customs; Agriculture; Snowdonia National Park Society (Wales); Nature conservation
Description: A profile of Esme 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.