The Southern Fells

Author:
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 0711240051
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
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 Pictorial Guides by A. Wainwright, written half a century ago, have been treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of The Southern Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright's original hand-drawn pages.

The Western Fells

Author: Alfred Wainwright
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 0711258236
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Book Description
One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: A. Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955–66, has become the definitive guidebook. Wainwright’s meticulously hand-drawn maps, diagrams and drawings take you up the 214 principal hills and mountains of the Lake District, describing the main routes of ascent from different starting points, as well as lesser-known variants, showing the summit viewpoint panoramas and the ridge routes that can be made to create longer walks. The Western Fells, Book Seven of Wainwright’s Walking Guide, covers Great Gable and the High Stile and Pillar ranges, overlooking the Ennerdale, Cocker and Wasdale valleys.

Wainwright Book Seven

Author: Alfred Wainwright
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
ISBN: 9780711222335
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description

How the Stars Fell Into the Sky

Author: Jerrie Oughton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395779385
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky.

The Fiery Cross

Author: Diana Gabaldon
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1696

Book Description
Crossing the boundaries of genre with its unrivalled storytelling, Diana Gabaldon’ s new novel is a gift both to her millions of loyal fans and to the lucky readers who have yet to discover her. In the ten years since her extraordinary debut novel, Outlander, was published, beloved author Diana Gabaldon has entertained scores of readers with her heart-stirring stories and remarkable characters. The four volumes of her bestselling saga, featuring eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his twentieth-century, time-travelling wife, Claire Randall, boasts nearly 5 million copies in the U.S. The story of Outlander begins just after the Second World War, when a British field nurse named Claire Randall walks through a cleft stone in the Scottish highlands and is transported back some two hundred years to 1743. Here, now, is The Fiery Cross, the eagerly awaited fifth volume in this remarkable, award-winning series of historical novels. The year is 1771, and war is approaching. Jamie Fraser’ s wife has told him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy – a time-traveller’s certain knowledge. To break his oath to the Crown will brand him a traitor; to keep it is certain doom. Jamie Fraser stands in the shadow of the fiery cross – a standard that leads nowhere but to the bloody brink of war.

The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

Author: Alfred Wainwright
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711231757
Category : Lake District (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
This is the legendary A. Wainwright's guide to his selection of 56 'foothills' in Lakeland, brilliantly revised and updated by Chris Jesty. The outings described here with typical eloquence and humour were chosen by Wainwright with a particular readership in mind: 'those walkers who, because of age or infirmity, must be content with milder expeditions on lesser fells.' This guide is packed with gems of outstanding beauty which you don't have to be super-fit to enjoy: Orrest Head, where Wainwright's love affair with the Lake District began; Scout Scar, 'a pleasure every step of the way'; Beacon Fell, 'the epitome of that appeals to fellwalkers'; and many, many others. All the walks fall within the boundaries of the National Park. In the second edition, the main routes are picked out in red for greater visibility, and parking information is given where possible.

Catholic Vietnam

Author: Charles Keith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520272471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Keith explores the complex position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history. Much like the revolutionary ideologies and struggles in the name of the Vietnamese nation the revolution in Vietnamese Catholic life polarized the place of the new Church in post-colonial Vietnamese politics and society.

The Northern Fells

Author: Alfred Wainwright
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 071124006X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955–66, has become the definitive guidebook. Wainwright’s meticulously hand-drawn maps, diagrams and drawings take you up the 214 principal hills and mountains of the Lake District, describing the main routes of ascent from different starting points, as well as lesser-known variants, showing the summit viewpoint panoramas and the ridge routes that can be made to create longer walks. The Northern Fells, Book Five of Wainwright’s Walking Guide, covers an area that encompasses both the gentler gradients of the Uldale and Caldbeck Fells and the spectacular mountains of Skiddaw and Blencathra. This new edition has been comprehensively revised by writer and designer Clive Hutchby, author of The Wainwright Companion. Paths, maps, diagrams and route descriptions have been checked and corrected throughout in this new portable, pocket-sized flexibound format that can easily be packed and carried in a walker’s rucksack.

Complete Lakeland Fells

Author: Bill Birkett
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780007136292
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A comprehensive and detailed route reference work on the Lakeland Fells, this book covers all the Fell tops over 1,000 feet (305m) in the English Lake District National Park. The legendary beauty, unique character and accessibility of the Lake District makes it irresistible to hill walkers of all levels. "Complete Lakeland Fells" gives walking distances and duration along with altitudes gained for every walk and the heights of the major fells encountered. The regions are divided into six geographical areas, with 129 circular walks chosen for their character, quality and practicality by a local author with years of climbing experience.

Wainwright Pictorial Guides

Author: A. Wainwright
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780711222816
Category : Lake District (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Reproductions of the author's original artworks.