On 24 April 2015, it will have been exactly fifty years since a ceremony was held at Malham to mark the official opening of the Pennine Way Long Distance Footpath (now designated a National Trail), a trek of some 270 miles from Edale in Derbyshire`s Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. There are now 15 National Trails of varying length but despite competition from younger upstarts, the pioneering Pennine Way retains its cachet of being the most challenging (and consequently most rewarding) expedition across vast tracts of Britain`s untamed countryside. The legendary fell-walker, writer & illustrator Alfred Wainwright published his own inimitable step-by-step pocket guide to the Pennine Way in 1966 & in 1985 used that material as the basis for a collaboration with photographer Derry Brabbs: Wainwright on the Pennine Way, an illustrated overview of the trail, which topped the Sunday Times best-seller list for several weeks. For this edition, published in a handsome new large format, Wainwright`s text has been revised & annotated to account for the changes in the route that have occurred in recent years, as well as the improvements to the terrain underfoot, in areas where flagstone paths now cover the boggy peat moors. In addition, Derry Brabbs has reshot the entire book specially with stunning year-round photography, to bring this classic fully up to date. Wainwright on the Pennine Way brings together a writer & a photographer who have each been acclaimed for their artistry in recording the high places of Britain. This is a `must have` memento or gift for anyone who has done the route or an aspirational reference work for armchair walkers content to let others do the legwork. ...

Bound in real cloth with gold foil blocking, this classic blank book is perfect for sketching or journaling.

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Scratch Off Wainwright Hill-bagging Print is the perfect gift for walkers / hill climbers or lovers of the Lake District. Scratch off the Wainwrights as you climb them. Keep your running total too. Happy climbing! Scratch Off Wainwright Hill-bagging Print is part of our Collect & Scratch collection & shows all 214 Wainwright fells including their heights, covered by a scratch-off latex. This means that you can document each one you have ` Bagged` by scratching off the foil to reveal some colour underneath. Also featured on the map is a tally that you can update with a dry wipe pen as you go along so you can see how many more you need to ` Bag`. This map is a great gift for a walking/climbing enthusiast whether they have never climbed a Wainwright or they know the Lake District like the back of their hands. This is an inspiring map designed with an avid walker in mind, aiming to fuel their enthusiasm encouraging them to climb as many as they can! ...

This book is a photographic journey through the Lake District. It illustrates what a group of young men would have seen on their Whitsuntide holiday in 1931 had the weather been in their favour. In 1991, shortly after the death of Alfred Wainwright, W. E. Maudsley, the sole surviving member of that group, made available the details of their holiday; unknown to anyone, he had kept them for sixty years. On six foolscap sheets, it outlined a route over the high fells of Lakel&. The Whitsuntide Tour was the brainchild of Alfred Wainwright, who, after his first visit to the Lakes the year before, had to see more. Its aim was to see every valley, mountain, & lake, even though they may not all be visited. With his three companions, Jim Sharples, Harry Driver, & Eric Maudsley, they set out on 23 May 1931. The walk, a test of man's endurance against nature, ended six days later. Unfortunately, A. W. did not keep notes & does not mention the walk in either of his biographies, so we can only assume how it must have been for the young adventurers. Although it failed to achieve its objective, the Whitsuntide Tour was to sow the seeds that culminated in the guide books we know so well. It was the beginning of a Love Story. ...

The first fully revised & updated edition of A. Wainwright`s pocket-sized guide to the classic Coast to Coast Walk. From St Bees Head on the Irish Sea by way of the Lake District, the Pennines, Swaledale & the North York Moors & ending at Robin Hood`s Bay on the North Sea, this 190-mile walk has over the years become one of the best-loved long-distance routes in the world. First devised in the early 1970s, the walk has prompted countless enthusiasts to lace up their walking boots & follow Wainwright`s example, & inspired TV series by Tony Robinson for Channel 5 & Julia Bradbury for BBC Four. This brand new edition of the Pictorial Guide contains Wainwright`s h&-drawn route maps & his inimitable commentary, with the route, maps & text completely revised & brought fully up-to-date by Chris Jesty. ...

Wainwright`s Way is a journey on foot through Wainwright`s life from Lancashire to the Lakes. This walking guide charts a 126-mile long-distance route linking the place where Wainwright was born
- a Victorian terraced house in Audley Range, Blackburn
- with his final resting place on Haystacks, his heavenly corner of Lakel&. Along the way, the walk, split into ten day stages, literally follows in the footsteps of Wainwright at work, linking the sights he sketched & wrote about in a succession of Lancashire guides: A Ribble Sketchbook, A Bowland Sketchbook & A Lune Sketchbook. Continuing northwards, the walk arrives in the county Wainwright knew best, as celebrated in his books, Westmorland Heritage & Three Westmorland Rivers. Spending time in Kendal, where Wainwright lived for 50 years, the route stops to enjoy a unique circular town walk linking all the places associated with AW
- from the Museum & Library, to the Town Hall where he worked, to his two residences at Castle Grove & Kendal Green. From here, the walker enters Wainwright`s `earthly paradise` & takes a meandering course across Lakeland from Kendal to Buttermere, through the territory made so familiar by AW`s intimate Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. The route visits some of the lesser known valleys, passes & peaks recorded in The Far Eastern, Eastern, Central & Western Fells guides, & stops in Borrowdale, one of Wainwright`s favourite valleys, taking in a section of his Coast to Coast Walk along the way. The climax of the walk follows the final journey of Wainwright himself, as his ashes were carried onto Haystacks from Honister Pass to be scattered by the side of Innominate Tarn. From here, the walker drops down to the shores of Buttermere & visits the final memorial to Wainwright
- the window on to the fells in the tiny roadside church of St. James. It is a fitting end to both a memorable walk completed
- & a memorable life fulfilled. Much more than a route guide, this book uncovers the history, landscape & characters of many of the places sketched by Wainwright. It is a walk through some of the most spectacular scenery in the North of England
- including a surprising Lancashire, a county of dramatic river valleys, high moors & lonely woodland cloughs. This trek unites the two contrasting lives of the master fell walker
- his industrial Lancashire life & his Lakeland life. It takes in paths on the edge of mill town Blackburn that Wainwright is known to have walked along himself during his youthful sojourns into the Lancashire countryside.






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Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase & for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly & wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother & sisters, & their politics (while not being at all political herself), finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country & her deep attachment to it & those who live & work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire, Debo played an active role in restoring & overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses & gardens, & in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children, as well as her husband`s battle with alcohol addiction. Wait For Me is enthralling & a total joy, full of the author`s sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself). ...

A gripping World War II adventure from War Horse author & former Children`s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo. Jo did not stop until he`d shut the door behind him & even then his heart could not stop pounding in his ears. Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village. All goes to plan until German soldiers start patrolling the mountains, & Jo realises the children are trapped. Jo`EURO (t)s slightest mistake could have devastating consequences.. . Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal & Guardian Fiction award In the tradition of Goodnight Mr Tom, Carrie`s War, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & perfect for fans of The Bone Sparrow, Waiting for Anya is a novel that takes children to the heart of a tumultuous period in history. It will provide a wider context for kids who have studied the Holocaust & The Diary of Anne Frank. Other Michael Morpurgo titles you may enjoy: The Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon A Twist of Gold Private Peaceful ------ Former Children`s Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful children`s authors in the country, loved by children, teachers & parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen & stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came & Kensuke`s Kingdom. Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children`s Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the ”poverty of experience” many young children feel in inner city & urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities. Living in Devon, listening to Mozart & working with children have provided Michael with the ideas & incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up & writing stories for children.” For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out
- the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand & sharing my dream with my readers.” Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.
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A gorgeously written, ENGLISH PATIENT-style novel about the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa & Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. Already optioned to be the next film by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL). Love, war & photography marked their lives. They were young, anti-Fascist, good-looking, & nonconformist. They had everything in life, & they put everything at risk. They created their own legend & remained faithful to it until the very end...A young German woman named Gerta Pohorylle & a young Hungarian man named Endre Friedmann meet in Paris in 1935. Both Communists, Jewish, exiled, & photographers, they decide to change their names in order to sell their work more easily, & so they become Gerda Taro & Robert Capa. With these new identities, they travel to Spain & begin to document the Spanish Civil War. Two years later, tragedy will befall them
- but until then, theirs is a romance for the ages. Based on the true story of these legendary figures & set to be the next film by award-winning director Michael Mann WAITING FOR ROBERT CAPA is a moving tribute to all journalists & photographers who lose their lives to show us the world`s daily transformations.
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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city`s preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence
- a world of sex, scandal & spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of his life...
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