Yorkshires Contribution To Science

Download or read book Yorkshire written by Richard Morris and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.