Yorkshire Dales and Fells

Yorkshire Dales and Fells

This book is a companion volume to that entitled Yorkshire Coast and Moorland Scenes, which was published in 1904. It describes a tract of country that is more full of noble and imposing scenery than the north-eastern corner of the county, although it has none of the advantages of a coast-line. Beyond this, the area covered by the present volume is larger than that of the earlier one, and the historic events connected with its great over-lords and their castles, with the numerous monasteries and ancient towns, are so full of thrilling interest that it has only been possible to sample here and there the vast stores of romance that exist in some hundreds of volumes of early and modern writings. GORDON HOME. Epsom, April, 1906. {vii} {ix} {1} {2} {3} When in the early years of life one learns for the first time the name of that range of mountains forming the backbone of England, the youthful scholar looks forward to seeing in later years the prolonged series of lofty hills known as the Pennine Range. His imagination pictures Pen-y-ghent and Ingleborough as great peaks, seldom free from a mantle of clouds, for are they not called mountains of the Pennine Range, and do they not appear in almost as large type in the school geography as Snowdon and Ben Nevis? But as the scholar grows older and more able to travel, so does the Pennine Range recede from his vision, until it becomes almost as remote as those crater-strewn mountains in the Moon which have a name so similar. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 55067
Author: Home, Gordon
Release Date: Jul 7, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English