Walter White, librarian of the Royal Society, spent a month walking across Yorkshire in the 1850s and wrote up what he saw: the coast and the moors, Skelton Castle where Sterne visited his friend John Hall Stevenson, and the Dales villages, including a conversation at Burnsall that caused a stir when the book appeared.
A chatty, observant walking book that remained popular through many editions. Download the free EPUB.