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Here, to accompany the five part BBC series of "Wainwright Walks", its six part sequel, and the seven part Granada series "Wainwright Country" are all Wainwright's maps and instructions for the seventeen walks featured in the three series, plus a bonus walk from the outlying fells. Over 250 pages from a total of eight Pictorial Guides are brought together in this one handy volume. Wainwright's 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 and 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, and suggestions for the best route down. Here is all you need to get out and enjoy the Lakeland landscape - and who better to take along as your guide than the one and only Alfred Wainwright - much-loved British character and fell-walking legend. The book will feature the following walks and fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding via Striding Edge; Stybarrow Dodd from Sticks Pass; High Street from Mardale via Rough Crag; Thornthwaite Crag from Hartsop; Eagle Crag from Stonethwaite; Helm Crag from Grasmere; Bowfell from Langdale via Crinkle Crags; Pike o' Blisco from Wrynose; Scafell Pike from Borrowdale via Esk Hause; Blencathra via Sharp Edge; Great Calva via Whitewater Dash; Knott Rigg and Ard Crags from Newlands Hause; Castle Crag from Borrowdale; Catbells from Hawse End; Haystacks from Gatesgarth; Pillar from Black Sail via the High Level Traverse; Yewbarrow from Overbeck Bridge; and Stickle Pike from Broughton Mills.

AuthorEric Robson FormatHardback Pages344Dimensions170 x 112 mm ISBN 10 071122806X ISBN 13 9780711228061 PublisherFrances Lincoln Publishers Ltd Publish Date06/2007