<p><b>''Restless, poetic, strange ... and the territory it describes deserves nothing less'' <i>Observer<br></i>''Glittering and energetic'' <i>Country Life</i></b><br><br>Yorkshire is ''a continent unto itself'', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. The result is a fascinating and wide-ranging meditation on Yorkshire and Yorkshireness, told through the prism of the region''s most extraordinary people and places.</p>