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What Landscape Means to Me

What Landscape Means to Me  (2004), 2, pp. 128–131 © Colin Speakman Colin Speakman An introduction to the author Colin Speakman (opposite) is a writer and environmental campaigner. He is the author of a number of books including a biography of the geologist Adam Sedg- wick, A Portrait of North Yorkshire, a Yorkshire Dales Anthology, several walking and cycling guides including The Dales Way and The Nut Brown Maid, a selec- tion of Dales folk tales and legends. He is the founder-Secretary of the Yorkshire Dales Society, an environmental charity of some 1,800 members. In 1999 he was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Bradford University for his literary and environmental work. I grew up in Salford, Greater Manchester, a grim, industrial city, during the bleak post-war years. Countryside was the local park, nature the grass and occasional coltsfoot struggling in cracks between the cobbles in the narrow streets. Occasionally, over the rooftops and forest of mill town chimneys, you could glimpse the high, brown whaleback shape of distant moors, which I later learned were called the Pennines. A bike for Christmas in my early teens was to change all that. With ado- lescence came the first tentative exploration of what lay http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

What Landscape Means to Me

Speakman, Colin
Landscapes , Volume 5 (2): 4 – Oct 1, 2004
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2004 Maney
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10.1179/lan.2004.5.2.128
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 (2004), 2, pp. 128–131 © Colin Speakman Colin Speakman An introduction to the author Colin Speakman (opposite) is a writer and environmental campaigner. He is the author of a number of books including a biography of the geologist Adam Sedg- wick, A Portrait of North Yorkshire, a Yorkshire Dales Anthology, several walking and cycling guides including The Dales Way and The Nut Brown Maid, a selec- tion of Dales folk tales and legends. He is the founder-Secretary of the Yorkshire Dales Society, an environmental charity of some 1,800 members. In 1999 he was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Bradford University for his literary and environmental work. I grew up in Salford, Greater Manchester, a grim, industrial city, during the bleak post-war years. Countryside was the local park, nature the grass and occasional coltsfoot struggling in cracks between the cobbles in the narrow streets. Occasionally, over the rooftops and forest of mill town chimneys, you could glimpse the high, brown whaleback shape of distant moors, which I later learned were called the Pennines. A bike for Christmas in my early teens was to change all that. With ado- lescence came the first tentative exploration of what lay

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