The Wainwright Companion by Clive Hutchby
The Wainwright Companion is a fully illustrated collection of fascinating facts, statistics, trivia and opinion based on A Wainwright's legendary guidebooks to the English Lake District. Which fell has most waterfalls? The longest ridges? The roughest ascent? The best views? The wettest path? The only ascent description that starts with a descent? And what did AW ever do for the Romans? All these questions and hundreds more are answered in this ‘ book about the books’ – the seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and their companion, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.'No-one has analysed the Pictorial Guidebooks produced by Alfred Waiwright more closely than Clive HutchbyHe's counted the clouds in every book and the people - very few - and the rare self-portraits AW drew of himself. Clive's obsessive approach will have you refer again abnd again to the originals to match your favourites or try and catch him out on trivia/ statistics.'
'I sugges the book should be called The Wainwright Compendium. it is absolutely crammed with information, statistics and facts.... Sean McMahon's photographs are, of course, superb.'
A must for any Wainwright aficionado and is packed with facts and features about his eight classic guidebooks.
A must for any Wainwright aficionado and is packed with facts and features about his eight classic guidebooks.
'I sugges the book should be called The Wainwright Compendium. it is absolutely crammed with information, statistics and facts.... Sean McMahon's photographs are, of course, superb.'
'No-one has analysed the Pictorial Guidebooks produced by Alfred Waiwright more closely than Clive Hutchby. He's counted the clouds in every book and the people - very few - and the rare self-portraits AW drew of himself. Clive's obsessive approach will have you refer again abnd again to the originals to match your favourites or try and catch him out on trivia/ statistics.'
CLIVE HUTCHBY climbed his very first Lakeland fell just two years after the publication of the last of legendary fellwalker and guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright’s seven PICTORIAL GUIDES TO THE LAKELAND FELLS, and a full six years before the author relented to ‘pressure’ from his fans and produced his final guide to the mountains of the English Lake District, THE OUTLYING FELLS OF LAKELAND. After conquering Catbells, he has grown taller (and older, unfortunately), and in the intervening years since has edited newspapers in England and the United States and also worked in Ireland. In all three countries he has won journalism awards for writing and designing. Clive is the author of THE WAINWRIGHT COMPANION, published in 2012, of which Cumberland News wrote 'No-one has analysed the Pictorial Guidebooks produced by Alfred Waiwright more closely than Clive Hutchby. He's counted the clouds in every book'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780711233829 |
| ISBN 10 | 0711233829 |
| Title | The Wainwright Companion |
| Author | Clive Hutchby |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2012-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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