Contents

  About the Book
  About the Author
  Also by Hugh Thomson
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Introduction
  1 The North Crossing
From the Cumbrian coast into the Lake District
  2 The Naked Muleteer
The old drovers’ roads
  3 Of Blacksmiths and Poets
The heart of Lakeland
  4 A Tintinnabular Clatter
A world under water in the eastern Lakes
  5 The House in the Howgills
The old county of Westmorland
  6 In a Silent Way
The Quakers
  7 An Auction of Love and Sheep
Through the Yorkshire Dales
  8 The Idea of the North
Swaledale and Auden
  9 Richmond in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll’s fantasy town
10 Confabulation: The Man Who Lived to Be 169
Across the Vale of Mowbray to the Cleveland Hills
11 How Not to Get Married
And other tales the Brontës never wrote
12 The Moors: Zombies Versus Steampunks
The Yorkshire Moors to the coast of the North Sea
 Picture Section
 Acknowledgements and Epilogue
 Index
 Copyright