A Fourth Lakeland Sketchbook

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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 he began to devote every spare moment he had to researching & compiling the original seven Pictorial Guides. He described these as his 'love letters' to the Lakeland Fells & 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, & more, since I first came from a smoky mill-town (forgive me, Blackburn!) & beheld, from Orrest Head, a scene of great beauty, a fascinating paradise, Lakeland's mountains & trees & water. That was the first time I had looked upon beauty, or imagined it, even. Afterwards I went often, whenever I could, & always my eyes were lifted to the hills. I was to find then, & it has been so ever since, a spiritual & physical satisfaction in climbing mountains