Song of the Earth is a novel by Alexander Cordell

Alexander Cordell

Alexander Cordell was the pen-name of George Alexander Graber, a prolific Welsh novelist and author of thirty acclaimed works including Rape of the Fair Country, The Hosts of Rebecca and Song of the Earth....

, first published in 1969. It is the final book of Cordell's "Mortymer Trilogy".

Cordell's 3rd book in the lives of the Mortimer family, after Rape of the Fair Country and Hosts of Rebecca. It is a prequel to Rape of the Fair County with the Mortymer family buying a canal barge on the Neath valley canal. It tells of the life of the coal industry in Resolven

Resolven

Resolven is a small village in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is located in the heart of the Vale of Neath.- Location :The village is situated in the Vale of Neath, next to the A465 Heads of Valleys Road, and is the main settlement in the community of Resolven...

 as well as the Brunel designed Canal system of the valley. Describing the landscape (still seen today over 150 years later) as well as the hardship suffered by the family and growth of disease and population topography in the industrial revolution. How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, telling the story through narration of the main character, of his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live. The author had claimed to have based the book on his own knowledge of the Gilfach Goch area, but this was proven...

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