A01=Robert Woodhouse
Author_Robert Woodhouse
Category=WQH
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Product details
- ISBN 9780750931557
- Dimensions: 194 x 263mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 2003
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Robert Woodhouse's book about North Yorkshire illustrates and describes people, places and incidents that are unusual, odd or extraordinary. Subjects covered include flamboyant or eccentric characters, curious buildings, large-scale schemes that were planned and built but never used (a railway across the moors, a harbour and a seaside resort, for example), weird weather, mazes, standing stones and holes in the ground, unusual customs, and lost racecourses. Local folklore and legend are also examined - to show how real events have been exaggerated and embroidered over the years: the author gives examples of monsters, giants and witches, all of whom really existed, in some form. Using a range of illustrations, from old and recent photographs to maps, prints, paintings and engravings, Woodhouse tells an entertaining story - an alternative history of North Yorkshire.
Robert Woodhouse began researching the history of North-East England in the 1960s. He has eighteen books on the area to his credit, for nine different publishers, and makes regular contributions to local radio and in newspapers-including a weekly walks column in the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette. Robert is one of the North-East's foremost historians.
