Download or read book Esme- Guardian of Snowdonia written by Teleri Bevan and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of Esme Kirby, the conservationist who formed the Snowdonia National Park Society. Her career began as an actress, and at 23 she married Thomas Firbank, whose bestselling book, I Bought a Mountain (1940) tells of their married life at Dyffryn, a 3,000-acre farm near Capel Curig.