Product Information
Tim Binding's most lyrical and experimental work to date, the story of an English town; Tim Binding lived in Ilkley, Yorkshire, until he was seven, and the place shaped his imagination and has haunted him ever since, especially the death by drowning of Michael Airey, his childhood friend. On Ilkley Moor is an imaginative history of a 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 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 it all, it is one small story of England, of going back, of the fifties and the lost dreams of that era - not a travel book, but a return home to the place that made the writer what he is.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139780330369978
eBay Product ID (ePID)91517106
Product Key Features
Book TitleOn Ilkley Moor
AuthorTim Binding
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLocal History
Publication Year2002
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height197mm
Item Width130mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTim Binding
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom