{"title":"Books by Phil Cope","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781854115287","title":"Holy Wells: Cornwall","description":"Holy Wells: Cornwall is a collection of stunning colour photographs of 63 wells in Cornwall, with an informative text about their history - and legends - by well expert Phil Cope. Their story from pagan origin to Christian use is told in word and image.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308618428789,"sku":"9781854115287","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781854115287_0265304c-5e8a-45c3-913a-f53405f98bd0.jpg?v=1786029539"},{"product_id":"9781781724965","title":"The Living Wells of Wales","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor and photographer Phil Cope takes the reader on a journey through the sacred wells of Wales from the Anglesey to the Gwent. He discovers wells in city centres and, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere – on mountainsides, in deserted valleys, on the coast, in sea caves. They include healing wells, cursing wells, and wells named for saints, Satan, witches, angels, fairies, friars, nuns, hermits, murderers and hangmen. His stunning, atmospheric photographs are accompanied by folk tales, myths and legends, conversations with well-keepers and poems inspired by Welsh wells.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWales has an abundance of wells both in the natural state and domesticated for private or civic use. Published in conjunction with the Keep Wales Tidy Living Wells project, \u003ci\u003eThe Living Wells of Wales\u003c\/i\u003e is a guide to historic sites important to Welsh identity which have been hidden and neglected in town and countryside, and which now have new life as a result of the project. Packed with colour photographs, including some of long-forgotten wells now rediscovered, \u003ci\u003eThe Living Wells of Wales\u003c\/i\u003e is the new definitive volume on a subject gaining a new popularity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Living Wells of Wales is a new title in the Holy Wells series, and is preceded by volumes on Scotland, Cornwall and the Borderlands. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312813584757,"sku":"9781781724965","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781724965_ef106eec-2def-4896-af8a-dcc1344d3bad.jpg?v=1786025654"},{"product_id":"9781781726334","title":"The Golden Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Golden Valley is a personal account in words and photographs of the Garw where Phil Cope has lived for thirty-five years. In it he explores the valley’s history: sparsely worked agriculture; boom-town coal exploitation; sudden, followed by gentle, post-industrial decline; attempts at re-invigoration through heritage and leisure; and now, existing in a post-covid world. This is a classic example of close-knit communities shattered by the removal of the thing that bound them together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCope photographs the entire valley between March 2019 and January 2021, to create a contemporary, twenty-first century record. The ancient Garw hilltops above the valley, sometimes snow-capped, with their tombs and lost settlements are present. As are the much more recent settlements of the coal villages with their terraces once occupied by colliers, the repurposed miners’ institutes, the shops and chapels, and the now almost obligatory public memorials to a lost industry (and, in some cases, lost lives).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe valley’s natural beauty – some might say \u003ci\u003ereturning\u003c\/i\u003e natural beauty – is also present, from the minutiae of the lichen on its windswept trees to the river which has shaped the valley with its timeless flow. The centrality of nature and landscape to the current and future life of the valley are also recorded, the walks and bike trails, the sports fields and wind turbines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Garw Valley has its own particular character as this book records so richly and compassionately yet it shares with other valleys the sense of creating a haven between its steep sides. Most of all its story is also the story of all the valleys of the former south Wales coalfield: in the Golden Valley lie all the other valleys of Glamorgan and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312813879669,"sku":"9781781726334","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781726334_78f312cf-c225-458e-9147-5ead68af8f50.jpg?v=1786025688"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-phil-cope.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}