From local dialect, charcoal burners, slate quarries and bee-keeping to Beatrix Potter, fairs, regattas and cures for whooping cough, this book is a vivid representation of one of the richest and best-loved areas in Britain. Illustrations, photographs and fascinating facts and figures abound.
- ISBN10 0297835777
- ISBN13 9780297835776
- Publish Date 10 June 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 June 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 216
- Language English