February 21, 2014
It is now almost sixty years since in 1955 Alfred Wainwright published the first volume of his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. It took Wainwright more than a decade to complete the original seven volumes, the final one, on the Western Fells, being published in 1966. Subsequently in 1974 he added an eighth on […]
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August 5, 2013
The original “Wainwright walks” were, of course, described in the seven volumes of Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells published between 1955 and 1966. Half a century later these volumes were revised and updated by Chris Jesty. These seven are not, however, the only Wainwright guide books. Many of the more mountainous Lake District walks […]
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