The Silent Traveller in the Yorkshire Dales

Author(s): Yee, Chiang
Illustrator(s): Yee, Chiang
The Silent Traveller in the Yorkshire Dales by Yee, Chiang — front cover
Binding:Hardcover
Size:6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Volume Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Dust Jacket Condition:Fair
Edition:3rd Edition
Language:English
Publisher Name: Methuen
Publication Year:1942
Publication Place:36 Essex Street, The Strand, London
SKU:002823
Categories: Travel, Exploration and Topography
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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.
Keywords: Yorkshire Yorkshire Dales Parcevall Hall Simon's Seat Bolton Abbey Barden Bridge Kilnsey Grag Semerwater Ingleborough

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