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Wainwright: The Podcasts: Eight Lakeland Walks with Wainwright Alfred Wainwright 9780711229846

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Explore some of the Lakeland's finest fells in the company in the one and only A. Wainwright with this handy volume of eight walks from the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and the Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Includes introductions to each walk by Eric Robson and a free CD with a commentary narrated by Nik Wood-Jones (the voice of Wainwright on the recent popular television series). The fells included in this volume are Catbells, Coniston Old Man, Haystacks, Helm Crag, Latrigg, Nab Scar, Orrest Head and Place Fell.

* Published in association with Cumbria Tourism * Includes audio-guide and original Wainwright text and maps * Also includes practical information for today's families on public transport, car parking and refreshments * Over 200,000 copies of Wainwright titles sold in 2007

About the Author
Born in Blackburn in 1907, Alfred Wainwright left school at the age of 13. A holiday at the age of 23 kindled a life-long love affair with the Lake District. Following a move to Kendal in 1941 he began to devote every spare moment he had to researching and compiling the original seven Pictorial Guides. He described these as his 'love letters' to the Lakeland Fells and at the end of the first, The Eastern Fells, he wrote about what the mountains had come to mean to him:

"I suppose it might be said, to add impressiveness to the whole thing, that this book has been twenty years in the making, for it is so long, and more, since I first came from a smoky mill-town (forgive me, Blackburn!) and beheld, from Orrest Head, a scene of great beauty, a fascinating paradise, Lakeland's mountains and trees and water. That was the first time I had looked upon beauty, or imagined it, even.

Afterwards I went often, whenever I could, and always my eyes were lifted to the hills. I was to find then, and it has been so ever since, a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains - and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindnesses of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

In due course I came to live within sight of the hills, and I was well content. If I could not be climbing, I was happy to sit idly and dream of them, serenely. Then came a restlessness and the feeling that it was not enough to take their gifts and do nothing in return. I must dedicate something of myself, the best part of me, to them. I started to write about them, and to draw pictures of them. Doing these things, I found they were still giving and I still receiving, for a great pleasure filled me when I was so engaged - I had found a new way of escape to them and from all else less worth while.

Thus it comes about that I have written this book. Not for material gain, welcome though that would be (you see I have not escaped entirely!); not for the benefit of my contemporaries, though if it brings them also to the hills I shall be well pleased; certainly not for posterity, about which I can work up no enthusiasm at all. No, this book has been written, carefully and with infinite patience, for my own pleasure and because it has seemed to bring the hills to my own fireside. If it has merit, it is because the hills have merit."

A. Wainwright died in 1991 at the age of 84.

Chris Jesty trained as a cartographer with the Ordnance Survey. He devised Scafell Pike Panorama, a guide to the view from the highest mountain in England, for which Wainwright provided illustrations. When Wainwright's health deteriorated, Chris helped him with the maps for two of his large-format books. Shortly before he died, Wainwright said that if ever the Pictorial Guides were to be revised, Chris Jesty should be given the job. He lives in Kendal.

Eric Robson was born in southern Scotland and has lived most of his life in Cumbria. For the last 15 years he has had a small farm in the southern Lake District where he keeps sheep. A broadcaster and television documentary maker, he got to know Alfred Wainwright uncommonly well while filming with him in the 1980s. He was executive producer of Granada's Wainwright Country and consultant for the BBC's Wainwright Walks series. He is best known as the presenter of Radio 4's Gardener's Question Time, where he sees his job as keeping the panellists from 'straying into horticultural Latin'.

To visit Eric's Striding Edge website click here



Reviews
It was on the summit that the Wainwright iPod made a late bid for victory. Listening to the commentary, I realised there was more to enjoy up here: shapes of rocks and vistas to identify. Without it I think we might have missed the subtler pleasures of the summit and left too soon, forgoing the very reason Wainwright so loved this walk. Final results? The commentary certainly helps at the start of walks, and is a useful reminder for features and views en route. It doesn't replace map and book, of course, but it does add to the pleasure. And, as a spur to reluctant companions, it has real currency - even if you have to download 70s glam rock songs to sing on the descent. Guardian Adapted so the modern fell walker can make the most of his expert knowledge. Food & Travel Think of the pleasure of sitting on the summit of any fell at all, and listening to AW's words... experiencing what he saw and felt... almost through his eyes. I'm sure children and young peoplewill find the podcasts intriguing. Finding the way will become both challenging and interesting. Younger members of the family can 'lead the way' for the rest of the group. I'm certain that being led by a podcast will prove to be a novel way of introducing children to fell-walking - hopefully an activity they'll enjoy for their lifetime. Keswick Reminder A 21st-century publication that brings AW's walks to a new generation of walkers, and if it gives them a better understanding of the fells, it will be worth it. Footsteps



Book Information
ISBN 9780711229846
Author Alfred Wainwright
Page Count 128
Imprint Frances Lincoln
Publisher Quarto Publishing PLC

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