The Silent Traveller in the Yorkshire Dales
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xvi, 90pp plus 16 plate illustrations, of which eight are in colour. Pale green publisher's cloth boards (a little faded at base of spine where dust jacket has chipped away, gently rounded at corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, with a previous owner's name written on the half title page. In its original, price clipped dust jacket (discoloured, chipped at edges with some loss along base, cracked on lower half of spine and three inch crease on reverse. A war time publication reflecting on happier times in the Yorkshire Dales, a charming book which transports the reader out of the world of bombs and sirens into a land that is just as real but lit not with searchlights but with the light of imagination. Yee describes his visits to Parcevall Hall, Simon's Seat, Bolton Abbey, Barden Bridge, Kilnsey Grag, Semerwater, Ingleborough and other sites in the dales. Slim volume. Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket.