Thomas firbank biography

He was born in Quebec , Canada , to an English father and a Welsh mother. Following his father's early death, he was raised among his mother's hill-farming community in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales. He was educated at Stowe School. His first book, an autobiography entitled I Bought a Mountain ISBN was published in and became a major international best-seller.

It describes how aged only 21, he bought Dyffryn Mymbyr farm, [ 1 ] a 2,acre 9.

Heather firbank

Firbank was a keen mountain walker, and the book includes a hair-raising account of how he and his two companions were possibly the first to ascend all of the Welsh s in less than 9 hours. The book ends with pastoral calm interrupted by the ominous drumbeats of the Second World War which drew Thomas Firbank away from his beloved farm to enlist in the Coldstream Guards.

His marriage ended during the Second World War, both parties finding new partners. In difficult postwar circumstances, he generously gave Esme his farm in , enabling her to remain there with her new partner.

Esme guardian of snowdonia

In she became an important founder member of the Snowdonia Society. After her death the farm was donated to the National Trust. Log Hut pub. George G. Harrap, details his experiences in a bungalow on the north east edge of Dartmoor. This tour was a farewell to the old country before moving to Japan to open up the Far East for a British engineering firm.

A novel entitled Bride to the Mountain pub. Harrap , reprinted C.