Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of the meaning of Yorkshire [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

McMillan, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091959969 ISBN 13: 9780091959968

Verlag: Ebury Press, 2016

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Críticas:

"A love letter to Yorkshire ... enjoyably so" (Book of the Week Daily Mail)

"A force of nature" (Guardian)

"Inching towards the status of a national treasure" (Andy Kershaw)

"World-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers" (Carol Ann Duffy)

"With McMillan, you feel a draught coming from the blast of fresh air blowing through the dusty cobwebs that festoon most literary programmes" (Sue Arnold Observer)

Reseña del editor:

I’m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I’m going to start here, in this village, and radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don’t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn’t. I’m going to confirm or deny the clichés, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire people are tight. Yorkshire people are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a Yorkshire pudding before every meal. Yorkshire people solder a t’ before every word they use...

If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian McMillan would be it. He’s regularly consulted as a home-grown expert, and southerners comment archly on his ‘fruity Yorkshire brogue’. But he has been keeping a secret. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotland, making him, as he puts it, only ‘half tyke’. So Ian is worried; is he Yorkshire enough?

To try to understand what this means Ian embarks on a journey around the county, starting in the village has lived in his entire life. With contributions from the Cudworth Probus Club, a kazoo playing train guard, Mad Geoff the barber and four Saddleworth council workers looking for a mattress, Ian tries to discover what lies at the heart of Britain’s most distinct county and its people, as well as finding out whether the Yorkshire Pudding is worthy of becoming a UNESCO Intangible Heritage Site, if Harrogate is really, really, in Yorkshire and, of course, who knocks up the knocker up?. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Ebury Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0091959969
• ISBN 13: 9780091959968
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352