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Books Cumbria : People : Biography

Biography

Cumbrian Biography and Autobiography <<prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | next>>
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Beatrix Potter's Farming Friendship: Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop 1926 - 1943

Judy Taylor (ed)
£8.50

A collection of correspondence sent from Beatrix Potter to Joseph Moscrop.

Published by : Beatrix Potter Society
Published date : 1998
Format : Paperback.

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Beatrix Potter's Journal

Glen Cavaliero
£20.00

Between the ages of 15 and 30, Beatrix kept a diary written in code. When the code was finally cracked, it revealed a picture of upper-middle-class life in Victorian Britain, written with liveliness and humour. This is that diary.

Published by : Frederick Warne
Published date : 1986
Format : Hardback.

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Beatrix Potter's Lakeland Paintings DVD


£17.99

Enjoy this wonderful collection of Beatrix Potter's landscape paintings and sketches used as backgrounds for the famous book illustrations.

Published by : Burlington Productions
Published date : November 2006
Format : DVD

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Beatrix Potter's Tale

Elizabeth Battrick
£5.99

A very readable historical novel which also paints a life-like portrait of Beatrix Potter.

Published by : Ellenbank Press
Published date : 1993
Format : Paperback.

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Beatrix Potter: A Holiday Diary

Judy Taylor
£6.00

Beatrix Potters 1905 diary, which was written when she was on holiday with her parents and brother.

Published by : Beatrix Potter Society
Published date : 1996
Format : Paperback.

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Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator

Anne Stevenson Hobbs
£20.00

The Tale of Beatrix Potter is universally known, but apart from a few of the fungus paintings, her original works were neither reproduced nor exhibited in her lifetime. This volume offers a broad survey of Potter's art in all its variety: early sketches, unfinished and variant designs, and finished watercolours, including some less familiar material never before on public display.

Published by : Frederick Warne
Published date : 2005
Format : Large paperback.

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Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman

Judy Taylor
£14.99

A new edition, containing new material and previously unpublished photographs.

Published by : Frederick Warne
Published date : 1996
Format : Large paperback.

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Behind Chained Gates

Moira Linaker
£10.00

The Foot and Mouth epidemic of 2001 has affected many people in many ways. Moira bought a smallholding, but F&M hit soon afterwards. This is the moving, inspirational story of how she battled against the system and saved her sheep.

Published by : Hayloft
Published date : 2004
Format : Paperback.

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Bill Hogarth MBE Coppice Merchant: A Life in the Woodlands of the Lake District

Alan Shepley (ed)
£6.50

Bill Hogarth worked as a coppice merchant in south Cumbria for 56 years. He learned his trade with his father from the age of 14 and was still hard at work in the woods when he died in 1999. This book is his story of those years.

Published by : Wood Education Programme Trust
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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Biographical List of Clockmakers

Susan E. Stuart
£15.95

A list of the clockmakers of North Lancashire and South Westmorland from 1680 to 1900.

Published by : University of Lancaster
Published date : 1996
Format : Paperback.

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Blackboards Whiteboards Chessboards! The History of Scotby Village School

Ian W. Mackay
£9.95

An affectionate and detailed history of the school in Scotby village near Carlisle, written by the headteacher and covering the history of the building itself, to past headteachers, staff and pupils, the war years and much more.

Published by : Ian Mackay
Published date : 2004
Format : Large paperback.

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Bluebird and the Dead Lake

John Pearson
£9.99

The classic account of how Donald Campbell broke the World Land Speed Record in 1964. In Australias remote outback, on the dazzling saltpan of Lake Eyre, he set out to drive his Bluebird car at over 400 miles an hour - faster than any man in history.

Published by : Aurum Press
Published date : 2002
Format : Paperback.

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Born 1900

Hunter Davies
£7.99

A view of the twentieth century through various people and institutions which have featured in the last 100 years.

Published by : Warner
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Breaking Away: Coleridge in Scotland

Carol Kyros Walker (ed)
£19.95

Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803. This volume draws on Coleridges letters and notebooks to look at his travels with the Wordsworths and to record and photograph the journey

Published by : Yale University Press
Published date : 2002
Format : Hardback.

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Carlisle's Crane Makers: The Cowans Sheldon Story

Alan Earnshaw
£9.95

Cowans Sheldon was one of the most important railway and marine engineering firms in the world. Professor Earnshaw records the companys birth, growth and consolidation, followed by its takeover, demise and recent regeneration.

Published by : Nostalgia Road
Published date : 2004
Format : Large paperback.

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Changing the Face of Carlisle: The Life and Times of Percy Dalton City Engineer and Surveyor

Marie K. Dickens
£9.99

A compelling insight into the life of a unique man, who quite literally changed Carlisle for ever. He was put in charge of the citys housing programme in 1919, he designed five bridges carrying traffic into Carlisle, he erected the Turkish Baths

Published by : Hayloft
Published date : 2002
Format : Paperback.

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Chris Bonington's Everest

Chris Bonington
£20.00

Everest, the worlds highest mountain peak, has a compulsive attraction that has lured many climbers over the years. One such was Cumbrian Bonington, Britains best known climber. He has made four expeditions to its faces.

Published by : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published date : 2002
Format : Large hardback.

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Chris Bonnington - Mountaineer : 30 Years of Climbing on the World's Great Peaks

Chris Bonington
£16.99

A beautifully illustrated photographic autobiography with essays and extended captions that tell the story of Boningtons 30-year long mountaineering career.

Published by : Baton Wicks Publications
Published date : 1996
Format : Large paperback.

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Christopher Steele 1733-1767 of Acre Walls, Egremont: George Romney's Teacher

Mary E. Burkett
£9.50

This book attempts to throw a little more light on Steele with the aid of recently-discovered paintings, either signed by him or attributed to him with reasonable certainty.

Published by : Skiddaw Press
Published date : 2003
Format : Large paperback.

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Coleridge and Wordsworth: The Crucible of Friendship

Tom Mayberry
£9.99

The account of an extraordinary friendship between the two poets in 1797 which gave rise to such poems as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and culminated in Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems which marked the beginning of English Romanticism.

Published by : Sutton
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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Coleridge and Wordsworth: Travels in the West Country

Tom Mayberry
£9.99



Published by : Sutton Publishing
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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Coleridge: Darker Reflections

Richard Holmes
£9.99

Companion volume to Early Visions.

Published by : Flamingo
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Coleridge: Early Visions

Richard Holmes
£9.99

A vivid, sympathetic and beautifully written study of the great poet.

Published by : Flamingo
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Cottage and Farmhouse Detail in Beatrix Potter's Lake District

Audrey Parker
£2.50

A study of the characters and domestic detail in the work of Beatrix Potter.

Published by : Beatrix Potter Society
Published date : 1993
Format : Paperback.

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Cumbria to Kwai

T. Stewart
£10.00

An autobiography of Skymaster Tom Stewart, who recently passed away. An honest and at times disturbing account of life fighting in the Second World War.

Published by : National Ex-Services News
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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