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Yorkshire : A lyrical history of England's greatest county - Richard Morris

Yorkshire

A lyrical history of England's greatest county

By: Richard Morris

Paperback | 4 April 2019 | Edition Number 1

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''Restless, poetic, strange ... and the territory it describes deserves nothing less'' Observer
''Glittering and energetic'' Country Life


Yorkshire 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.

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Reading the book is like watching the author sift through layers of time ... There is a wealth of fascinating information - Guardian

[A] quirky, personal history of the Ridings ... Morris writes insightfully not just about one county, but about how places become what they are - Mail on Sunday

In this meticulously researched book, Richard Morris reveals Yorkshire and Yorkshireness through a series of extraordinary journeys and stories ... [His] description of the River Swale as glittering and energetic could be a metaphor for his own writing, which is itself relentlessly energetic ... Fascinating - Country Life

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