I Bought a Mountain

’“There’s nothing so fine as courage,” Thomas Firbank writes in I Bought a Mountain and that is the motto of the book: challenge after challenge faced, suffered and, in part anyway, relished for its stimulus. One of the great no-holds-barred life-adventures in the wilds of the British landscape. Every page is alive with the presence of the Welsh mountains and and their people, every chapter with the insistent, often beautiful, often savage realities of the natural world.’ * Adam Nicolson *
‘One of the most compelling and successful 20th-century versions of the urge to escape to the country… deeply inspiring… highly pertinent.’ * PATRICK BARKHAM *
‘Extraordinarily relevant… this book could have been written in 2022, with Firbank talking angrily of a country that needed to improve its self-sufficiency… Above all, however, he describes so movingly the privilege of farming this miraculous landscape.’ – Kate Green * Country LIfe *
‘A delightful book, full of vivid experiences.’ * Telegraph *
‘Vitally convincing and exhilarating.’ * OBSERVER *

THOMAS FIRBANK (1910-2000) was a Canadian/Welsh author, farmer, soldier and engineer. He enlisted during the Second World War and was awarded a Military Cross. After his marriage to Esme Cummins ended, he gave her the Dyffryn farm. He only returned to Snowdonia in 1993 after a spell living in the Far East, and died in Llanrwst, North Wales.

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