On Ilkley Moor

Zusatztext 'Compelling' Sunday Times Informationen zum Autor Tim Binding was born in Germany in 1947. He is the author of In the Kingdom of Air , A Perfect Execution , Island Madness , On Ilkley Moor , Anthem and Man Overboard . He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter. Klappentext Tim Binding's most lyrical and experimental work to date, the story of an English town. Vorwort Tim Binding's most lyrical and experimental work to date, the story of an English town. Zusammenfassung Tim Binding lived in Ilkley, Yorkshire, until he was seven. The place shaped his imagination and has haunted him ever since. On Ilkley Moor is an imaginative history of a great town, a series of explorations partly factual, partly intuitive and partly personal. It is the tale of Victorian optimism – of faith in hydropathy, in manufacturing, in the railways. It is also an examination of Ilkley’s place on the faultline between the two great forces which have informed English life and culture– its rural heritage, and the industrial revolution. It is a book about the north, about industry, commerce and medicine, and, above all, it is one small story of the England of the fifties, and the lost dreams of that era. Neither a travel nor a history book, this is a moving return home to the place that made the writer what he is.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Binding, Binding Tim
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2012
• EAN: 9781447219279
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-1927-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Guides; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Yorkshire, HISTORY / General, 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Local History