Coming Down the Wye

Robert Gibbings was an artist, wood engraver, traveller and proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press in the period before the Great Depression of the 1930's. He pioneered underwater sketching in the years before Cousteau, using a heavy diving helmet and a xylonite board. He knew a lot of things and

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a lot of people, and had the skill to write about them in a beguiling style which looks simple but isn't. This book is the story of a journey starting at the source of the River Wye on the slopes of the Welsh mountain Plynlimon, enlivened by his recollections of the Welsh people he met on his way. He has a keen ear and a good memory for dialogue, and though sixty years and more have gone by since it was written in the middle of WW II, it still convinces and charms.

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