A Month in Yorkshire

A weary young traveller crosses a snow-drifted moor with no house in sight—and only then discovers the cakes his Yorkshire hostess secretly slipped into his pocket. Walter White has never forgotten that kindness.

In this mid-nineteenth-century travelogue, White sets out again across a county vast enough to hold bleak moors, fertile fields, smoky towns and traces of Briton, Roman and Dane. His earlier rambles left the coast and great abbey ruins unseen; now he means to seek them, explore remote dales, and learn whether Yorkshire’s dialect and customs are fading. Fresh from travels among the peasantry of Germany and Tyrol, he also wants to test his belief that the English labourer fares better. What will this month’s wandering reveal about the people and the county he thought he knew?

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