Main entry:

Atkins, William (Editor), author.

Title & Author:

The moor : a journey into the English wilderness / William Atkins.

Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, 2015.
©2014

Description:

xx, 371 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:
Originally published in 2014 with different subtitle: lives, landscape, literature.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-354) and index.
Prologue: Bishop's Waltham. I. 1. The Monster Meeting: Bodmin Moor ; 2. Less Favoured Areas: Exmoor ; 3. The Abbot's Way: Dartmoor -- II. 4. The Waste: Saddleworth Moor ; 5. The Desert: The Calder Valley ; 6. The Flood: The Haworth Moors ; 7. Blackamore: The North York Moors III. 8. The Watershed: Alston Moor ; 9. The White Lands: The Otterburn Training Area -- Epilogue: Spaunton Moor.

Summary:

Presents the personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain. This book takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape.

ISBN:

9780571290055 (paperback)
0571290051 (paperback)

Subject:

Atkins, William (Editor) Travel Great Britain.
Moors (Wetlands) Great Britain.
Landes Grande-Bretagne.
Travel and Tourism.
Moors (Wetlands)
Travel
Great Britain Description and travel.
Grande-Bretagne Descriptions et voyages.
Great Britain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290108
Call No.: BIB 232897
Status: Available