{"product_id":"2026200016369-secondhand-people-of-the-black-mountains-the-beginning","title":"People Of The Black Mountains: The Beginning","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First Edition Thus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning tens of thousands of years of human history, People of the Black Mountains: The Beginning is an extraordinary work of historical imagination that anchors the sweep of ancient civilization to one enduring landscape — the Black Mountains of Wales. Raymond Williams chronicles the lives of countless generations of ordinary men and women, from Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers to the first settled farmers, weaving together their struggles for survival, belonging, and meaning against the timeless backdrop of the Welsh uplands. Each chapter resurrects a lost world with startling immediacy, binding the reader to characters whose names and faces have long been swallowed by time, yet whose humanity feels utterly present.\n\nThis ambitious novel — the first volume of an unfinished masterwork — stands as a testament to Williams's lifelong commitment to recovering the histories of those excluded from official record. Known primarily as one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural theorists and literary critics, Williams here demonstrates the full power of his vision in fiction, arguing through narrative that place itself is a form of memory, and that the land holds the accumulated weight of all who have ever walked it. Rich in anthropological detail yet driven by genuine storytelling urgency, People of the Black Mountains leaves the reader asking a haunting question: what, truly, is inherited when we inherit a landscape?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336822137051,"sku":"2026200016369-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7b5bc63a-44d9-4be0-884c-caacfe29d1b2.png?v=1789958987","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016369-secondhand-people-of-the-black-mountains-the-beginning","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}