Originally compiled in the 1950s and early 1960s, the Wainwright walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. The result of painstaking and lengthy research by their namesake and author over a period of thirteen years, the guides have retained their original format and design to this day. The books contain intricate hand drawn sketches by the author, detailing routes of ascent, and gradients of the hills in and around the Lake District and outlying regions. The seven guides covering the Fells district, as well as the Outlying Fells of Lakeland will be reissued by Frances Lincoln in April.
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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 Wainwright devoted every spare minute of his days to researching and compiling the original seven Pictorial guides. Following Wainwright's death in 1991, Michael Joseph bought the complete list including the later guidebooks and numerous sketchbooks. The rights have now been sold to Frances Lincoln, and the printing of the books has been moved to their original location in Kendal.
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We have a few of these books already and bought this one for our latest holiday when we stayed near Windermere. Always sensible to take a proper map and compass with you when you're walking anyway, but these books give you a bit more information that is helpful about the route.
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This is my first Wainwright book and I love it, definitely be back to Amazon to purchase more of Mr Wainwrights informative and fabulously illustrated works.
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Bought for a hard to buy for brother in law, can't comment on content but he was really pleased with this classic.
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Good old guide - reprint
Can't say a lot about these, the classic fell walking guide, need an O/S map to back them up now, but still mostly valid.
Published 5 months ago by Mr N Green
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This map is in-vaulable to me i take my car and go walking but unlike other maps this is more detailed and shows all the parking places, really good and reccommended
Published on 10 Oct 2009 by actionman023
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