Himself a Dalesman born and bred, and married to the daughter of a Dales farmer, Bill Mitchell has roamed the beautiful and ancient landscape of the Yorkshire Dales since boyhood. As the former editor of The Dalesman, his knowledge and understanding of his fellow dales folk are second to none.

In High Dale Country he celebrates the more remote regions of the Dales, the high country, where the last flourish of meadows and pasture gives way to rugged, unimproved fell -- and where a hardy, laconic race makes its living.

Through Wensleydale and Swaledale, Warfedale and Ribblesdale, and northward to Teesdale and Weardale, the reader is taken on a fascinating journey through an elemental landscape, and introduced to a wealth of colorful characters. Illustrated with the author's own photographs, High Dale Country is a rich evocation of the very essence of Dales life.

With a foreword by James Herriot.