April 12, 2024
Folio Society Alfred Wainwright The Complete Pictorial Guides
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The Complete Pictorial Guides This special 10-volume boxed set features 8 Lakeland Pictorial Guides plus 2 celebrated guides to walks beyond the Lakeland Fells. '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, and more, since I first came from a smoky mill-town (forgive me, Blackburn!) and beheld, from Orrest Head, a scene of great loveliness, a fascinating paradise, Lakeland's mountains and trees and water. That was the first time I had looked on beauty, or imagined it, even.' In 1930, a young civil servant left his modest home in the back streets of Blackburn and went walking in the Lakeland fells. It was the beginning of a decades-long love affair. Alfred Wainwright returned to the mountains whenever he could, until in 1941 he moved from Blackburn to Kendal, and began to plan his seven Pictorial Guides. For almost twenty years, including a 13-year period without pay, he walked the Fells each weekend with his sketchbook and pipe, overnighting in a pub, or even sleeping in the open air. The result was The Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, an achievement which would earn him millions of devoted readers and an MBE. 'These have been the best years for me, the golden years. I have had a full reward in a thousand happy days on the fells'
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