Walking with the Brontės in West Yorkshire - Softcover

Buckley, Norman; Buckley, June

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0711232547 ISBN 13: 9780711232549

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2012

Synopsis

Explore one of England's great landscapes in the company of the great writers with whom it is indelibly associated. In the style of Walking with Beatrix Potter and Walking with Wordsworth, Walking with the Brontės is a pocket-sized book containing fifteen walking routes, predominantly in West Yorkshire.
Each walk is to somewhere associated with one or more of the Brontė family, either in real life or with important characters or places in their novels: for instance the house on which Emily based Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering Heights, or the countryside around Cowan Bridge School which, with its harsh regime, caused the Brontė girls much suffering and became Lowood School in Charlotte's Jane Eyre.
The walks are generally short and fairly easy, contrasting semi-urban areas with the wild moorland above their home at the Parsonage Haworth. Each route is fully described, aided by sketch plans, and illustrated by new colour photographs. In each case, a separate text explains the Bronte associations, with extracts from their writing.

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Review:

I am sure [this book] will give us as much walking pleasure as the others did.

The Bronte's and their stories are so ingrained into our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their characters offers a new perspective of their work.

There are stunning photographs that make the book not just a useful guide but as a keepsake and memory of the wonderful country you will see on the walks. A gem of a guide.

There are stunning photographs that make the book not just a useful guide but as a keepsake and memory of the wonderful country you will see on the walks. A gem of a guide.

The Bronte's and their stories are so ingrained into our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their characters offers a new perspective of their work.

I am sure [this book] will give us as much walking pleasure as the others did.

About the Author:

June Buckley and her husband Norman are professional writers, and the authors of numerous guide books and walking books. They live in Windermere, and are long standing members of the Beatrix Potter society.

Norman Buckley and his wife June are professional writers, and the authors of numerous guide books and walking books. Norman was awarded an M.A. degree in Lake District Studies at Lancaster University in 2006. They live in Windermere.

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0711232547
• ISBN 13: 9780711232549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144