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). ...

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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He appears out of the sea washed up naked in the treacherous Straits of Gibraltar. Seemingly delirious & claiming to be Christopher Columbus he is taken to an insane asylum in Seville where astonishingly he starts to reveal the true story of how he set sail on behalf of the Spanish queen five hundred years ago. Consuela a nurse at the Institute is charged with helping him back to reality. She listens to his fantastic tales in the hope of discovering the truth. But as his story unfolds she finds herself falling for her patient -- no longer able to tell where truth ends & fantasy begins. Meanwhile across the continent Emile Germain is involved in a different search. He's an Interpol officer on the hunt for a missing person presumed dangerous. He's a determined man & when his investigation leads to Spain these two stories collide. Part romance part mysterious thriller this is a rich & emotional novel about love loss & the fragile beauty of our own life stories. ...

Nothing happens nobody comes nobody goes it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would in time represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century literature. ...

Meet Oz.. .he's got a talent for trouble but his heart's always in the right place (well nearly always). Uprooted from his friends & former life Oz finds himself stranded in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. When a joke backfires on the first day at his new school Oz attracts the attention of Isobel Skinner the school psycho
- but that's just the beginning. After causing an accident that puts his mum in hospital Oz isn't exactly popular at home either. His older sister's no help but then she's got a problem of her own.. .one that's growing bigger by the day. Oz knows he's got to put things right but life isn't that simple especially when the only people still talking to you are a hobbit-obsessed kid & a voice in your own head! Packed with action heart & humour Waiting for Gonzo takes you for a white-knuckle ride on the Wheel of Destiny as it careers out of control down the Hillside of Inevitability. The question is do you go down laughing? Or grit your teeth & jump off?
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