The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

The Wainwright Companion

The Wainwright Companion

by SeanMcMahon (Photographer), Clive Hutchby (Author)

  • Used

    Hardcover 2012

    $53.43
Synopsis

The Wainwright Companion is a fully illustrated collection of fascinating facts, statistics, trivia and opinion based on A Wainwright's legendary guidebooks to the English Lake District. Which fell has most waterfalls? The longest ridges? The roughest ascent? The best views? The wettest path? The only ascent description that starts with a descent? And what did AW ever do for the Romans? All these questions and hundreds more are answered in this 'book about the books' - the seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and their companion, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

$53.43

Quantity

2 in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 25 Oct 2012
ISBN 10: 0711233829
ISBN 13: 9780711233829

Media Reviews
'No-one has analysed the Pictorial Guidebooks produced by Alfred Waiwright more closely than Clive Hutchby. He's counted the clouds in every book and the people - very few - and the rare self-portraits AW drew of himself. Clive's obsessive approach will have you refer again abnd again to the originals to match your favourites or try and catch him out on trivia/ statistics.' Cumberland News 'I sugges the book should be called The Wainwright Compendium. it is absolutely crammed with information, statistics and facts... Sean McMahon's photographs are, of course, superb.' Footsteps A must for any Wainwright aficionado and is packed with facts and features about his eight classic guidebooks. WALK magazine
Author Bio
CLIVE HUTCHBY climbed his very first Lakeland fell just two years after the publication of the last of the legendary fellwalker and guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright's seven Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, and a full six years before the author relented to 'pressure' from his fans and produced his final guide to the mountains of the Lake District, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. The stunning photographs in this book were taken by Cumbria-born SEAN McMAHON who, at the time of publication, has completed his fourth ascent of all 214 fells featured in Alfred Wainwright's first seven guidebooks. He is well-known among walkers for his excellent illustrated Lake District blog www.stridingedge.net. Sean and his wife own the gift shops Love The Lakes in Windermere and Keswick. They live on the edge of the National Park.