Wainwright on the Pennine Way
Wainwright, Alfred2014
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On 24 April 2015, it will have been 50 years since a ceremony was held at Malham to mark the official opening of the Pennine Way Long Distance Footpath (now designated a National Trail), a trek of some 270 miles from Edale in Derbyshire's Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. There are now 15 National Trails of varying length but despite competition from younger upstarts, the pioneering Pennine Way retains its cachet of being the most challenging (and consequently most rewarding) expedition across vast tracts of Britain's untamed countryside. The legendary fell-walker, writer and illustrator Alfred Wainwright published his own inimitable step-by-step pocket guide to the Pennine Way in 1966 and in 1985 used that material as the basis for a collaboration with photographer Derry Brabbs: 'Wainwright on the Pennine Way.' For this edition, published in a handsome new large format, Wainwright's text has been revised and annotated to account for the changes in the route that have occurred in recent years.
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Edition:
[New] edition / newly photographed by Derry Brabbs.
Imprint:
London : Frances Lincoln, 2014.London : Frances Lincoln, 2014.
Collation:
223 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 28 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: London: Michael Joseph, 1985.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780711233713 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.51
Language:
English
BRN:
1278554