Wainwright Family Walks brings together for the first time twenty of the easiest & best walks in the southern Lake District from Alfred Wainwrights classic collection of guides. Ideal for those with children & those just starting on their Lake District walking adventures alike it is a perfect accessible introduction to Wainwright. With the emphasis on the lower peaks & manageable climbs here is a selection of wonderful fell walks for all abilities. Sketches & notes from Wainwrights timeless guides are reproduced in their entirety for each of the walks so you can enjoy his peerless commentary on the Lakeland fells while detailed & up-to-date directions guide you along some of Wainwrights recommended routes. There is also plenty of practical advice for getting to the start of each walk & family-friendly facilities nearby plus map & GPS references. With starting points across the southern Lake District & walks ranging from simple strolls to more challenging climbs all that is left to do is lace up your familys boots & walk! A second volume of Wainwright Family Walks covering fells in the northern half of the Lake District will be available soon. ...

The Wainwright Memorial Walk is the 102-mile route through the Lake District that A. Wainwright
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This handsome pocket diary featuring the illustrations of A. Wainwright is bound with real cloth & has gold blocking on the cover & spine. Illustrated throughout with Alfred Wainwrights sketches of the Lakes & his Coast to Coast walk it has a week to a view & a ribbon marker & is individually shrinkwrapped. ...

All the 17 walks shown on the television series plus a bonus from the Outlying Fells are covered in full in this handy book bringing together more than 250 pages from the brilliantly revised & updated Second Edition of Wainwrights Pictorial Guides. Wainwrights 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 & 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 & suggestions for the best route down. Freshly updated instructions & maps with the routes picked out in red plus information on car parking & campsites. Here is all you need to get out & enjoy the Lakeland landscape
- & who better to take along as your guide than the one & only Alfred Wainwright
- much-loved British character & fell-walking legend.

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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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Warren Buffett compares stock trading to great athletes: they excel not because of fast neurological responses but because of their ability to delay as long as possible before reacting. Successful CEOs fire fighters & military officers all know how to manage delay to gather as much information as possible to get the results they need. In Wait Frank Partnoy argues that decisions of all kinds whether snap or long-term benefit from being made at the last possible moment. The art of knowing how long you can afford to delay before committing is at the heart of many a great decision whether in a corporate takeover or a marriage proposal. Apologies are better received if they are not rushed; audiences listen more attentively if speakers pause first people who can defer gratification are happier & more successful than those who must have everything now. Exploring decisions that must be made in a millisecond to those that take months & years Partnoy demonstrates that the ability to wait is crucial to getting the right answer & that gut instincts are often wrong. ...

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 husbands battle with alcohol addiction. Wait For Me is enthralling & a total joy full of the authors sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself). ...

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 husbands battle with alcohol addiction. Wait For Me is enthralling & a total joy full of the authors sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself). ...

This is a gripping historical adventure by a much-loved & award winning author. It is World War II & Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret: Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis close to his mountain village in Spain. Now German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo must get word to his friends that the children are trapped. The slightest mistake could cost them their lives. ...

When you're small waiting for anything can seem to take a lifetime especially when it's a baby! There is so much to sort out for the new arrival
- clothes toys & a place to sleep. A new addition to any family is exciting but the experience can also be worrying & confusing for siblings. Coping with the new situations & emotions that arise can be very challenging. This series of four board books deals with the anticipation of waiting for the new baby the excitement of the arrival itself & the beginnings of the special relationship that develops between siblings. The simple conversational text & lively illustrations are carefully designed to encourage further dialogue between reader & child.
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