Whichever legend or story may or may not be true, the classic tale of a dog searching for its way back home is legendary and a true Children’s classic. This Lassie, also a female border collie is loved only by her young master and ends up saving the day. Lassie was also the name of a dog in the story by Elizabeth Gaskell called “The Half-brothers”. In this book he writes how in Lyme Regis, close the where the HMS Formidable sank in 1915, the legend of a dog named Lassie who brought a sailor who had been washed ashore in a lifeboat back from death has lasted ever since. Eric Knight was born in 1897 in Yorkshire, England, the countryside that was the background for Lassie Come-Home.He moved to the United States as a teenager. This dog appears in the “Shipwreck Guide to Dorset and South Devon”, written by Nigel Clarke. Lassie may have been inspired by a real life dog who saved the life of a sailor during WW1. Greenall Bridge, where the story starts and ends, is a (fictional) coal mining community in Yorkshire where “of all places in the world it is here that the dog is really king.” Everyone knows and loves Lassie! And like the dog, he never forgot his Yorkshire roots even when he moved away to the US. A remarkable journey enough for anyone but especially so for a border collie.Īnd the author based the village where Lassie searches for on the place he was born – Menston in Yorkshire. From Scotland, all the way across Yorkshire, England. Imagine being taken so far away from your family and then having to find your way home again. A booktrail via the eyes of a dog is a very special journey indeed.
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