Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Wainwright Anniversary Boxed Set Pictorial Guides to the Fells 1-7 by Alfred Wainwright Wainwright Pictorial Guides: Boxed Set 50th Anniversary Edition. This edition was published in 2007 to commemorate 50 years since Alfred Wainwright released the first volume of his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. No-one could have imagined how popular they would become. Although Chris Jesty has now produced an excellent updated 2nd edition which remains true to the AW style there is still a demand for the originals, just as the sketches, text and maps came from the pen of “A. Wainwright” himself. This boxed set includes all seven of the 1955-66 series, reprinted from the actual Wainwright sketches and made to match as closely as possible the original books published half a century ago: Book One: The Eastern Fells (1955) Book Two: The Far Eastern Fells (1957) Book Three: The Central Fells (1958) Book Four: The Southern Fells (1960) Book Five: The Northern Fells (1962) Book Six: The North Western Fells (1964) Book Seven: The Western Fells (1966) This 50th anniversary edition, one of three different styles of Wainwright box set available, will make a splendid gift for anyone who loves walking in the Lake District – or for yourself. Click on the box to buy now through Amazon.co.uk and immerse yourself in the Wainwright walks. The publisher’s recommended retail price for this boxed set is £99.99. As of 24 Sept 2014 (when this page was last updated) prices available here, from dealers selling through Amazon, started at little over £60 . Click on the box to check the latest prices and buy with massive reductions . Pictorial Guide To the Lakeland Fells Collection 7 Books Set By Alfred Wainwright - 50th Anniversary Edition. The Eastern Fells includes the greatest single concentrated mass of high ground in Lakeland: a tremendous barrier running north and south, high and steep all along its length, rising to above 3000 feet on Helvellyn the most-often climbed mountain in the Lake District. Popular resorts such as Ambleside and Grasmere lie in this sector of the fells, as does the beautiful Patterdale valley (the best base, in Wainwright's view, for exploring the area) The Far Eastern Fells. A Lakeland Fellranger walking guide by Mark Richards exploring 33 summits in the Far Eastern Fells of the Lake District, including a wide range of walks old and new, between Pooley Bridge to the north and Windermere to the south. Among the summits featured are Hallin Fell and Place Fell on the shores of Ullswater, Kidsty Pike above Haweswater and the fells of the famous Kentmere horseshoe to the south. Author Mark Richards combines his passion for the Lake District and artistic flair with all the information the experienced walker needs to explore and enjoy the Far Eastern fells. For each of the 33 hills covered, this guide offers a dedicated chapter, with full descriptions of a range of both undiscovered and time-honoured routes, full-colour Harvey maps and clear elevation diagrams, detailed summit panoramas and plenty of inspiring photographs. This guide is the last to be published in Cicerone's 8-volume Lakeland Fellranger series, which provides a comprehensive new guide to the fells of the English Lake District, with a selection of new routes up more than 220 hills. The Central Fells. The Central Fells of the Lake District include treasures such as the ever-popular Langdale Pikes, the supremely lovely foothills overlooking Borrowdale and the 'silent forests and gaunt crags' above the dark waters of Thirlmere. For walkers heading in this direction, and lovers of the Lakeland fells, this is the guide to take. The Sothern Fells. The Southern Fells include the highest, roughest, grandest fells in Lakeland including the highest mountain in England, Scafell Pike. Wainwright a fell-walking legend in his own lifetime knew the terrain and conveyed its grandeur and beauty like nobody else. In this unique Pictorial Guide, he writes of the glorious curves and simple grandeur of Great Langdale; of Wasdale, 'an emerald amongst sombre hills'; of enchanting Borrowdale; of the sparkling radiance of the Duddon; and of the most delectable valley of all Eskdale, 'sanctuary of peace and solitude'. The North Western Fells. The North Western Fells are bounded by the River Derwent and the River Cocker an area lauded by A. Wainwright as first-class fell-walking territory. The ridge walking here is some of the finest in the Lake District, offering views of unsurpassed beauty. There is something for all walkers: steep, high mountains such as Grasmoor, rugged individualists such as Castle Crag, and destinations such as Catbells, which Wainwright calls 'a family fell where grandmothers and infants can climb the heights together, a place beloved'. The Western Fells. The Western Fells lie within a wide sector, driving deep into the heart of Lakeland at Sty Head. They are bounded in the north-west by the Cocker valley, 'jewelled by the lovely lakes of Buttermere and Crummock Water'. South-west their boundary is Wasdale, running towards the sea. The Northern Fells. The Northern Fells include the rolling Caldbeck and Uldale Fells 'serene and restful, a perfect sanctuary for birds and animals and fell-walkers who prefer to be away from the crowds'; Skiddaw 'an affable, friendly giant'; majestic Blencathra 'the mountaineer's mountain'; Latrigg the favourite of visitors to Keswick and many more. They offer the walker excellent tramping and exhilarating freedom to wander at will. Pictorial Guide To the Lakeland Fells Collection 7 Books Set By Alfred Wainwright - 50th Anniversary Edition. Wainwright Anniversary Boxed Set Pictorial Guides to the Fells 1-7 by Alfred Wainwright. The First Walking Guide on Lakeland. Walking the Lake District with Wainwright. A chapter is dedicated to each fell, including a hand drawn map and routes to the summit, accompanied with sensitive sketches of the surrounding fells. A description is given of the summit as well as some personal thoughts, some of which contain his unique dark wit. In conclusion within his seventh book, Wainwright reveals that his favourite fells are Scafell, Crinkle Crags, Pillar, Bowfell, Great Gable and Blencarthra, although his ashes were scattered over his most favoured spot in Lakeland, Innonimate Tarn on Haystacks . Picture Credits : Map of the Lake District: Gray’s Book of Roads by George Carrington Gray. Permission from PG Google books. ISBN 13: 9780711224612. Wainwright Pictorial Guides Boxed Set (Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells) This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. This boxed set contains all seven of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells by the fell walking legend, A. Wainwright. For this Anniversary edition the pages were freshly reproduced from the original artwork and printed and bound to match the original books as closely as possible. Maps and text are as Wainwright wrote them. Since the guides were compiled half a century ago, they have been treasured by generations of walkers, and television programmes in the year of the centenary of Wainwright's birth introduced them to new enthusiasts. There were no guides like these before Wainwright devised them, and in the years since they were first published, they have never been matched. This boxed set of all seven books is the perfect gift for walkers and lovers of the Lakeland fells. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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 and compiling the original seven Pictorial Guides. With enhanced drawings that show the loving detail of the originals, this truly reflects Wainwright's legacy. If you ever get bored with looking at it, you could even use it to go walking! Wainwright Guides - Walking in the Lake District. The Wainwright Guides: Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells – 7 Vols. The name Alfred Wainwright, or “A. Wainwright” as he was known during his writing career, is now firmly embedded in the popular mind as associated with the Lake District mountains. Lake District walks could never be the same again after Wainwright. To “bag another Wainwright” is the great aspiration of many a walker, although Wainwright himself insisted that fell walking was not a competitive sport. Alfred Wainwright lived and worked in Kendal for most his life but his origins were elsewhere, in a very different environment. He was born into a working class family in the Lancashire mill town of Blackburn and experienced the difficult times of the 1920s and 30s. Being a bright lad, however, he worked hard at improving his position, taking night school classes and later correspondence courses to qualify as a local government accountant. This eventually enabled him in 1941 to obtain a position in the council office in Kendal, just where he had wanted to be since taking a holiday with a cousin walking in the Lake District – he was now hooked on Lakeland walks. He’d for many years been fond of taking long walks in the Pennine countryside nearer to his Blackburn home, the Darwen moors, Pendle Hill, the Ribble Valley and more. The book shown here relates to a long Pennine walk in 1938, three years before he moved to the Lake District. It was written at the time when he was only 31 but only published (without changes) half a century later. After his move to Kendal walking in the Lakeland fells occupied as much of his spare time as possible, becoming his obsession. His view of the Lake District is clearly expressed in the opening sentence of his first guide: “ Surely there is no other place in this whole wonderful world quite like Lakeland .” It was in 1948 that he developed the idea of mapping and drawing the routes of his Lakeland walks so as to compile them into printed volumes, publishing his first Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells in 1955. He never expected them to take off as they did, but by the time the last of the seven main guides was published in 1966 he was a household name and “Wainwright’s Guides” had become a must for holidaymakers planning their Lake District walking routes. Further down the page you will find details of reprints from the original editions, but most people now will want to buy the: Wainwright Guides – 2nd Revised Edition. The second edition of the Guides has been produced by Chris Jesty who had collaborated with Wainwright on projects during his later years. He personally checked on the ground every one of Wainwright’s original seven volumes Lake District walks, plus the Outlying Fells, to look for landscape changes and bring the content up to date. Footpaths have been updated, and useful information such as convenient parking places have been added. Sketch maps and diagrams have been corrected where necessary. Otherwise Wainwright’s original format has been retained. Click on any of the cover graphics here to go to Amazon.co.uk to get some substantial discounts on the cover prices. Wainwright Guides, 50th Anniversary Edition. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first guide the entire series of seven original volumes was reissued from the original plates. These are especially popular with people who remember with fondness the original issues and would like fresh copies as mementoes even though they’re now using the 2nd Revised editions for their actual walking expeditions. Click on any of the book graphics here to go to Amazon.co.uk to find some substantial discounts on the cover prices of the 50th Anniversary Editions. Other Wainwright Second Editions. In addition to the main guides series Chris Jesty was for some years hard at work updating several other volumes of Wainwright walks, and not only in the Lake District. The “Outlying Fells” …. The Coast to Coast book also …. Lakeland Sketchbooks. In addition to Wainwright’s guides to the fells he also put together volumes of the sketches he had drawn during his years of Lakeland walks and which had been used to illustrate the pictorial guides. These are still available, and by clicking on the covers below you’ll find that they’re now massively reduced in price on Amazon. Five volumes are shown below, the sixth cover picture being of the boxed set, an excellent gift for a lover of Lakeland if it’s not appropriate to go to the expense of a boxed set of the Guides. Order a Wainwright Pictorial Guides Boxed Set here. A Wainwright boxed set is a popular gift, and you have three options to choose from. From left to right below are: The 50th Anniversary Edition – 7 vols reprinted from the original art work; The 2nd Revised Edition – 8 volumes updated by Chris Jesty; The Reader’s Edition – 10 vols; original text; 10% larger; cloth binding. To order a Wainwright box set or to see further details click on a box. Although the Lakeland fells were without doubt the great love of his life Wainwright did not restrict himself to his Lake District walks, and throughout his later writing career he wrote much more widely than guides to walking in the Lake District. Click here for more Wainwright books. Navigation. Cookies. Please note that this site uses 'cookies' to help us give the best future service and we are now obliged by European law to tell you. Continued use of the site is taken as implied consent to our cookies and other privacy policies. Further details. Some Wainwright DVDs. “The Wainwright Guides” 2nd Edition Boxed Set. Click on the box for further details and to buy from Amazon. Biographical. Click on a cover graphic below for further details and to buy from Amazon.