Yorkshire

A lyrical history of England's greatest county

von Richard Morris

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'Restless, poetic, strange ... and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer'Glittering and energetic' Country LifeYorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. The result is a fascinating and wide-ranging meditation on Yorkshire and Yorkshireness, told through the prism of the region's most extraordinary people and places.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781780229096
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2019
• Größe: 198 x 126 mm
• Verlag: Orion Publishing Co