A Canadian In God’s Own Country

In 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.
Finding 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.
This 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.

“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.”
Tim Butcher, journalist, broadcaster and author

“I have read a half-dozen of the pieces in this labour of love
observations, astute and wry
from a man walking an ancient past
he never knew he had.
The writing is crisp, immediate
the perceptions acute, the excitement palpable
and above all
the curiosity with landscape and humans endless.”
George Costigan, actor and author