Wainwright's Pictorial Guides

A.Wainwright's legendary "Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells" have been best-sellers for the past fifty years. Now, for the first time, a thorough programme of revision and updating, authorised by the Wainwright Estate, has taken place.

Each of the 7 titles in the Lakeland Fells series are being reissued with maps and text revised to take account of the many changes to footpaths and terrain since Wainwright himself walked the fells.

Key features include: all maps and ascent diagrams are checked="checked" and updated, paths and route indicators are picked out in red for greater clarity, instructions on ascents and ridge routes are revised and updated, and drawings and page layouts remain faithful, wherever possible, to Wainwright's originals.

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A.Wainwright's legendary "Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells" have been best-sellers for the past fifty years. Now, for the first time, a thorough programme of revision and updating, authorised by the Wainwright Estate, has taken place.

Each of the 7 titles in the Lakeland Fells series are being reissued with maps and text revised to take account of the many changes to footpaths and terrain since Wainwright himself walked the fells.

Key features include: all maps and ascent diagrams are checked and updated, paths and route indicators are picked out in red for greater clarity, instructions on ascents and ridge routes are revised and updated, and drawings and page layouts remain faithful, wherever possible, to Wainwright's originals.

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A.Wainwright's legendary "Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells" have been best-sellers for the past fifty years. Now, for the first time, a thorough programme of revision and updating, authorised by the Wainwright Estate, has taken place.

Each of the 7 titles in the Lakeland Fells series are being reissued with maps and text revised to take account of the many changes to footpaths and terrain since Wainwright himself walked the fells.

Key features include: all maps and ascent diagrams are checked and updated, paths and route indicators are picked out in red for greater clarity, instructions on ascents and ridge routes are revised and updated, and drawings and page layouts remain faithful, wherever possible, to Wainwright's originals.

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A.Wainwright's legendary "Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells" have been best-sellers for the past fifty years. Now, for the first time, a thorough programme of revision and updating, authorised by the Wainwright Estate, has taken place.

Each of the 7 titles in the Lakeland Fells series are being reissued with maps and text revised to take account of the many changes to footpaths and terrain since Wainwright himself walked the fells.

Key features include: all maps and ascent diagrams are checked and updated, paths and route indicators are picked out in red for greater clarity, instructions on ascents and ridge routes are revised and updated, and drawings and page layouts remain faithful, wherever possible, to Wainwright's originals.

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The Northern Fells include the rolling Caldbeck and Uldale Fells. Skiddaw - "an affable, friendly giant", majestic Blencathra - "the monutaineer`s mountain". Latrigg - the favourite of visitors to Keswick - and many more.

 

The Pictorial Guides by A Wainwright, written half a century ago, have been treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of The Northern Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright`s original hand-drawn pages.

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The North Western Fells are bounded by the River Derwent and the River Cocker - an area lauded by A. Wainwright as first class fell-walking territory. The ridge walking here is some of the finest in the Lake District, offering views of unsurpassed beauty. Grasmoor, Castle Crag and Catbells are all included.

 

The pictorial guides by A Wainwright, written half a century ago, have been treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of the North western Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright`s original hand-drawn pages.

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The Western Fells offer widely diverse scenery and popular resorts such as Buttermere and Wasdale Head. They include fine peaks, Pillar, Haystacks and Great Gable that rises close to 3,000feet.

 

The Pictorial Guides by A Wainwright, written half a century ago, have beend treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of The Western Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright`s original hand-drawn pages.

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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 research by their namesake and author over a period of 13 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.

"A Coast to Coast Walk" was devised by Wainwright himself and stretches across 190 miles from St Bees Head on the East coast to Robin Hood's Bay on the West, passing through the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors.

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Here, to accompany the five part BBC series of Wainwright Walks, its six part sequel, and the seven part Granada series Wainwright Country are all Wainwright's maps and instructions for the 17 walks featured in the three series, plus a bonus walk from the outlying fells. Over 250 pages from a total of eight Pictorial Guides are brought together in this one handy volume.

Wainwright's old friend Eric Robson sets the scene for each walk with stories from the days he spent filming with the great fell-walker, adding his own personal impressions of the fell and the chosen ascent. Practical sections give the length of each route, the ascent in feet, the best O.S. map to take along, how to get to the start of the walk, and suggestions for the best route down.

Here is all you need to get out and enjoy the Lakeland landscape – and who better to take along as your guide than the one and only Alfred Wainwright – much-loved British character and fell-walking legend.

 

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The Penine Way Companion – first published in 1968 – is one of the unique Pictorial Guides compiled by legendary author, artist and fellwalker, A. Wainwright. It provides detailed information for walkers following Britain's first continuous long-distance footpath, the Pennine Way, which runs for 268 miles along the length of the Pennines from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in southern Scotland. Inaugurated in 1965, the Pennine Way has become one of the most popular long-distance footpaths in Britain. It is used by well over a hundred thousand walkers a year. This edition of Pennine Way Companion was revised in 1994, after the author's death.

 

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Alfred Wainwright's series of Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells are a legendary publishing achievement. Hand written and initially self-published they have sold over a million copies and have introduced countless thousands to the pleasures and rewards of fell walking. Here Hunter Davies selects 20 favourite fells from the seven guides, introducing each with an anecdote or memory of Wainwright and an account of how the fell came to be chosen.

This is the ideal book for a first-time visitor or walker, and it will reintroduce those already familiar with the series to forgotten pleasures, treasures and stories.

 

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A.Wainwright's legendary "Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells" have been best-sellers for the past fifty years. Now, for the first time, a thorough programme of revision and updating, authorised by the Wainwright Estate, has taken place.

Each of the 7 titles in the Lakeland Fells series are being reissued with maps and text revised to take account of the many changes to footpaths and terrain since Wainwright himself walked the fells.

Key features include: all maps and ascent diagrams are checked and updated, paths and route indicators are picked out in red for greater clarity, instructions on ascents and ridge routes are revised and updated, and drawings and page layouts remain faithful, wherever possible, to Wainwright's originals.

* Published 1st March 2008 *

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The Eastern Fells include the greatest single concentrated mass of high ground in Lakeland, rising to over 3,000 feet on Helvellyn - the most often climbed mountain in the Lake District.

Ambleside, Grasmere and the Patterdale Valley lie in this sector of the fells.

 

The Pictorial Guides by A Wainwright, written half a century ago, have been treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of the Eastern Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright`s original hand-drawn pages.

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The Far Eastern Fells of Lakeland rise to the east of Kirkstone Pass and the Patterdale valley. Many of the heights are relatively inaccessible and lonely, but the scenery here and the excellence of the walks rank, in Wainwright`s view with the Lake District`s best.

 

The Pictorial Guides by A Wainwright, written half a century ago, have been treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of The Far Eastern Fells is freshly reproduced from wainwright`s original hand-drawn pages.

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The Southern Fells include the highest, roughest, grandest fells in Lakeland including the highest mountain in England, Scafell Pike. In this pictorial guide Wainwright writes of the glorious curves and simple grandeur of Great Langdale; of Wasdale "an emerald amongst sombre hills" Borrowdale, Duddon and Eskdale are also included in the Southern Fells.

The Pictorial Guides by A Wainwright, written half a century ago, have been treasured by geneartions of walkers. This edition of The Southern Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright`s original hand-drawn pages. 

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The Central Fells of Lakeland include the ever popular Langdale Pikes, the lovely foothills overlooking Borrowdale and the Thirlmere area.

 

The Pictorial Guides by A. Wainwright, written half a century ago, have been treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of The Central Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright`s original hand-drawn pages.

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