 A. Wainwright's Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells: Book 5 - The Northern Fells
A number of members have wondered whether or not they should buy the revised series of the Pictorial Guides. On the evidence of this latest addition to the series, I would say undoubtedly YES! [more]
Scafell – Portrait of a Mountain
After his books about three of the Lake District valleys (Langdale, Borrowdale (the one west of Keswick) and The Duddon Valley), Bill Birkett has turned his gaze (and camera lens) to England’s highest range of mountains, the Scafell group. [more]
Twelve Favourite Mountains
This book is probably aimed at those who have recently started walking in the Lake District, possibly as a result of the TV series Wainwright’s Walks, but who do not necessarily want to purchase all seven Pictorial Guides – though that is their loss – but who wish to ascend what AW specifically picked out from all 214 fells covered in the book. [more]
Wainwright:
The Man Who Loved The Lakes
I suspect that the book was put together is a huge hurry, to cash
in on the successful television series but that is absolutely no excuse
to perpetrate the horrors that appear on almost every page. Are my words
too strong? Decide for yourselves. [more]
Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint’s Trunk
. ... this book is not only an essential companion to the
Ransome books but a magical transposition of story into reality,
which enchants and bewitches Ransome’s thousands of readers
of all ages. [more]
Coast
to Coast on an In-Growing Toenail
As early as the fourth page, Mike McKever makes the point that
this is not a guide to the Coast-to-Coast Walk. [more]
Outside
Broadcaster
Most members know of Eric Robson through his chairmanship
of the Society and probably also as chairman of Gardener’s
Question Time and the Cumbria Tourist Board. [more]
Walking
with Beatrix Potter
Windermere residents Norman and Jean Buckley have devised
a series of fifteen short walks, visiting many of the locations used
in Beatrix Potter’s books. [more]
Wainwright’s
TV Walks
On the back of the recent BBC series of Wainwright Walks,
its six-part sequel, and the seven-part Granada series Wainwright
Country, Frances Lincoln have produced a book containing all of
Wainwright’s chapters for the seventeen walks featured in the three
series, plus a bonus walk from The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
[more]
A.
Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells: Book
4 – The Southern Fells
When I visited Chris Jesty in Kendal about 18 months ago, just
after the publication of the revised Book 2, he told me he was busy
working on Book 4. This book is now published. [more]
Beatrix Potter at Home in the Lake District
The paperback version of a book originally published in 2000.
Susan Denyer, the author, is the National Trust’s Heritage Buildings
representative
in the north of England. [more]
Fellwalking
with Wainwright
One of the Christmas presents my wife bought me in 1984 was Fellwalking
with Wainwright and I spent many happy evenings reminiscing over
some of the walks I had already undertaken, and planning others that
the book inspired me to tackle. [more]
Best
Walks in the Lake District
by Frank Duerden – Revised
by Tom Holman ISBN 0-7712-2421-8Frank Duerden originally wrote
this book twenty years ago but following his death, it has recently
been updated by Tom Holman and is now republished by Frances Lincoln.
[more]
Scratch
& Co
by Molly Lefebure with illustrations by Alfred
Wainwright
A unique and intriguing account of the first ascent of
the H.K.P., the Highest Known Peak in the Kingdom of Catland, originally
published in 1968 with illustrations by the well-known Lakeland guidebook
author and topographer, Alfred Wainwright. [more]
The
Freedom to Roam Guides (Vols 6-9)
A further four books have now been issued and these, I feel,
will prove more popular than their predecessors as they are of the
Yorkshire Dales, the North York Moors, the Three Peaks area and the
Howgills. [more]
Coast
to Coast on the Ravenber Way
by Ron Scholes
Ron Scholes, Society member no. 140, has risen to this challenge and produced
his own coast-to-coast walk. [more]
Wainwright's
Pictorial Guide
Book 3 – The Central Fells Revised
by Chris Jesty
Frances Lincoln £12-99: ISBN 0-7112-2614-8
July 19 1970 was a key date in my life. It was my 18th birthday and one of the
presents I received was Book 3 in A. Wainwright’s series of Pictorial Guides,
The Central Fells. [more]
The
Border Line
by Eric Robson
In this book, Eric describes his walk along the modern border line, following
the route originally walked by James Logan Mack, an Edinburgh lawyer,
in the 1920s. [more]
Walking
the Wainwrights
by Stuart Marshall
I wish this book had been written ten years ago when I was in the process of
looking at which of the 214 fells in AW’s seven guides I had already climbed,
and how many summits were still to be reached. [more]
The
Freedom to Roam Guides (Vols 1-5)
These five guides, published to coincide with the Right to Roam legislation now
coming into effect, cover areas newly opened up to walkers as a result of the
legislation. [more]
Wainwright's
Pictorial Guide
Book
2 – The Far Eastern Fells Revised by Chris
Jesty
Frances Lincoln £12-99: ISBN 07112 2466 8
Ever since I read the revised edition of Book 1 back in May, I have been eagerly
awaiting the publication of Book 2. [more]
The
Riddle of Sphinx Rock:
- The Life and Times of Great
Gable - Ronald Turnbull
Millrace Books – ISBN 1-902173-19-8 £13.95 (hardback)
An exploration of the mountain that AW put amongst his finest half-dozen fells
in his concluding notes to Book7. [more]
In
the Footprints of Wainwright - Derry Brabbs
Frances Lincoln, £20-00, ISBN 0 7112 2495 1
Derry Brabbs spent the best part of a decade working with AW on a total
of seven books in the Lake District, Pennines and Scotland, beginning
with Fellwalking
with Wainwright. [more]
The
Southern Fells – Lakeland
Fell Ranger by Mark Richards
Harper Collins ISBN 0-00-711367-6 - £12-99
This, the fourth in the eight-part series of books by Mark Richards covering
the Lake District fells, contains the area west of Coniston Water and south of
the Hardknott and Wrynose passes. [more]
Wainwright's Pictorial Guide – Book
1 – The
Eastern Fells Revised by Chris Jesty
Frances Lincoln £12-99: ISBN 07112 2465 X
In AW's "Personal Notes in Conclusion "at the end of Book 3, The Central Fells, he made a comment that by the time he reached the end of Book Seven, age would prevent him undertaking the 'joyful task' of
revising the series himself. [more]
A Bit of Grit on Haystacks : A Celebration of Wainwright edited by Dave Hewitt
Millrace Books £13.95 or £12.00 direct mail : ISBN 1-902173-17-1
This most attractively produced book was the brainchild of Dave Hewitt, author of Walking the Watershed and a long-time Wainwright fan, in which he and eight other authors contribute essays to mark the publication of the first Pictorial Guide in 1955, and also look forward to the centenary of AW's birth in 2007. [more]
Westmorland
Heritage A. Wainwright
Frances Lincoln £35-00: ISBN 07112 2419 6
When I spoke to AW during one of my visits to him in 1986, I asked him what he
considered to be his finest work. I quite expected him to say the Pictorial
Guides but was surprised when instead he said Westmorland Heritage.
[more]
Feet
in the Clouds by
Richard Askwith
Aurum Press £16-99 ISBN 1-85410-989-8
To be a good fellrunner, you need four things. Good heart and lungs, a
light frame preferably under 10 stone, surefootedness that comes from lifelong
familiarity with the hills and a disregard for pain and danger that verges on
lunacy. [more]
The
Best of Wainwright by Hunter Davies
Frances Lincoln £9-99: ISBN 0 7112 2463 3
At 376 pages long, The Best of Wainwright is the same size as and similar
in length to the Pictorial Guides fitting snugly alongside them and will no doubt
help to introduce a new generation to these masterpieces of literature and art
which Hunter describes as 'the best work AW ever did'. [more]
After Wainwright by Eric Robson
Published by Striding Edge Publications
I have just finished reading one of the funniest books I have come
across for
a long time. This is "After Wainwright” written by the Wainwright
Society's Chairman, Eric Robson. It tells the tale of a journey by Eric,
his well-behaved border collie and not so well-behaved film crew. This journey
is a circular tour of the Lake District, through some of the more remote areas.
A total of 190 miles, and 40,000 feet of ascent (one and a half times the ascent
of Everest) covered over a two-week period. [more]
A Year in Nature Notes by Derwent
May
Published by Harper Collins - ISBN 0-00-718190-6 - £9.99
For
those of us who regularly walk the fells and valleys of Cumbria, one
thing that we notice most of all are the changes in nature. Whether this
be the budding of leaves in the spring, the call of the cuckoo, the flight
of the swallow or maybe even the eagle if one is up on the Mardale fells;
the golden tints of the trees in autumn, particularly in the valleys,
or the frozen waterfalls in winter – one cannot help but fail to
be awestruck by some of the beauties that nature reveals to us. [more] |
