{"product_id":"2940154649633","title":"A Canadian In God's Own Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the fall of 2016, journalist and documentary filmmaker Robin Benger felt the overwhelming resolve to pack in a forty year career based in Toronto, during which he covered events in some of the world’s most dangerous hotspots, and move into a caravan with his wife in North Yorkshire.\u003cbr\u003eFinding himself surrounded by the moors to the north, the wolds to the east, the dales to the west, and the Howardian Hills all around, Robin was immediately intoxicated by the beauty, the farmlands, the sheep, the cows, the streams, the birds, and the pathways themselves with their kissing gates and winding ways. And the people he met.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is his journal about a genteel English summer stopping life to walk, dream and look around, umpire for a village team and play golf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not since Bill Bryson has this muddy isle been framed with such wit, tenderness and insight. A fabulous debut that will take you far from the shrill bubble of London to where the heart of Britain still beats – loud, proud and just a little bit cranky.”\u003cbr\u003eTim Butcher, journalist, broadcaster and author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I have read a half-dozen of the pieces in this labour of love\u003cbr\u003eobservations, astute and wry\u003cbr\u003efrom a man walking an ancient past\u003cbr\u003ehe never knew he had.\u003cbr\u003eThe writing is crisp, immediate\u003cbr\u003ethe perceptions acute, the excitement palpable\u003cbr\u003eand above all\u003cbr\u003ethe curiosity with landscape and humans endless.”\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Costigan, actor and author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sixth Element Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157463187696,"sku":"2940154649633","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940154649633_p0.jpg?v=1764073744","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940154649633","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}