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True North: In Praise of England's Better Half

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True North: In Praise of England's Better Half - Wainwright, Martin
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Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents, the bleak uplands of a landscape carved out of millstone grit and townscape of abandoned mills and shipyards, the detritus of an industrial revolution past its sell-by date. That, anyway, is the myth, the foundation for the dismissive gibe that nothing north of Watford is worth a bag of chips. This and other myths are swiftly dispatched in "True North--"an incisive and wittily observant assessment of a socially and culturally flourishing region in the UK that can boast an ...

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True North: In Praise of England's Better Half 2010, Random House UK

ISBN-13: 9780852652138

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True North: In Praise of England's Better Half 2009, Random House UK, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780852651131

Hardcover