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On Ilkley Moor is Tim Binding's most lyrical and experimental work to date, chronicling one British town in a way that has never been attempted before.Tim Binding lived in Ilkley, Yorkshire, until he was seven, and the place shaped his imagination and has haunted him ever since, especially the death by drowning of Michael Airey, his childhood friend, who was carried away one afternoon by the swollen River Wharfe. On Ilkley Moor is an imaginative history of a town: a series of explorations, partly factual, partly intuitive and partly personal. It is the tale of Victorian optimism - of faith in hydropathy, in manufacturing, in the railways. It is an examination of Ilkley's place on the faultline between the two great forces which have informed English life and culture: its rural heritage and the industrial revolution. It is a book about the north, about industry, commerce and medicine and, above it all, it is one small story of England, of going back, of the fifties and the lost dreams of that era - not a travel book, but a return home to the place that made the writer what he is.
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Tim Binding is the author of A Perfect Execution and Island Madness, both published by Picador. He lives in Kent.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0330369962
- ISBN 13 9780330369961
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages336
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