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	Memoirs of a Fellwanderer A. Wainwright £12.99 This is the enduring story behind the Pictorial Guides - the love letters to the Lakeland Fells that have made A. Wainwright a hosehold name among walkers - illustrated with Wainwrights distinctive drawings of the mountains he knew and loved. Published by : Frances Lincoln Published date : 2003 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Millican Dalton: A Search for Romance and Freedom M.D. Entwistle £8.99 This book is a biographical tribute to the life and times of Millican Dalton. the Borrowdale caveman, who throughout his life and ever since his death, has never failed to capture the imagination. Published by : Mountainmere Research Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Molly's Story June Thistlethwaite (ed) £5.99 The life of a Cumbrian woman, Molly Park. Published by : Thyme Press Published date : 1998 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Please allow 10 days for delivery

	My Speed King: Life With Donald Campbell Tonia Bern-Campbell £5.99 Reduced from £17.99, an affectionate biography of Donald Campbell, who died on Coniston Water in 1967. Tonia Bern-Campbell, who was married to Campbell for nine years, tells the inside story of her heady life with Britains national land and water speed hero. Published by : Sutton Published date : 2002 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Nature's Engraver Jenny Uglow £9.99 At the end of the eighteenth-century Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's "History of British Birds" marked the moment: the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book Bewick drew the vanishing way of life of the country people of the North East. In this superbly illustrated biography, Jenny Uglow tells a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the wild - a journey to the beginning of our lasting obsession with the natural world. Published by : Faber Published date : September 2007 Format : 135mm x 198mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Nella - Lost and Found Nella Black & Eleanor Lynne Wallace £4.00 This is the life story of Nella Black, a 94 year old deaf & blind lady living in Carlisle, told from her personal diaries and interviews with the author Published by : R 3 Publications Published date : August 2007 Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Nella Last's War Nella Last £8.99 In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a regular diary that lasted for thirty years. Published by : Profile Books Published date : November 2006 Format : 195x130mm small paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Not s'many cows and a lot less yows Mike Sanderson £9.95 This book is the long-awaited second helping of humorous agricultural ramblings from the author of Yows and Cows, Mike Sanderson. Published by : Hayloft Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	On and Off the Rails Len Clark £9.95 A personal account of a life around steam engines, from working as a junior porter at Low Gill, doing National Service, and then working as part of a gang on the Permanent Way. Published by : Helm Press Published date : 2003 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA Melvyn Bragg £7.99 A fascinating account of the lives and discoveries of 12 great scientific figures. Published by : Sceptre Published date : 1998 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	One Hit Wonder: The Jimmy Glass Story Jimmy Glass and Roger Lytollis £12.99 It was Jimmy's 95th minute goal in the last game of the 1998/99 season that kept Carlisle United in the Football League. Even more remarkably, Jimmy is a goalkeeper. His rollercoaster career, from Premier League to Sunday league, is a world away from the standard football biography. Published by : Tempus Published date : 2004 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	One Woman's Walk Jane Moreland £9.99 At the age of 39 Jane Moreland turned her back on a successful career to fulfil her dream of walking alone in the great mountain ranges of the world. Her experiences led her up mountains, through jungles, over water, into danger, and gave her laughter, Published by : A. Jane Moreland Published date : 2003 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Outside Broadcaster - An Autobiography Eric Robson £12.99 Eric Robson is probably best known as the chairman of one of the longest running broadcast programmes in the world - Gardeners' Question Time on Radio 4. Published by : Frances Lincoln Published date : May 2007 Format : 198mm x 128mm hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Over Hill and Dale Gervase Phinn £6.99 A delightfully warm and humorous account of Gervase Phinns experiences in his second year as a school inspector in North Yorkshire. Published by : Penguin Published date : 2001 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Precious Lives Margaret Forster £7.99 A follow-on to Hidden Lives. (a family memoir of three generations of women). Published by : Vintage Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Precious Lives Margaret Forster £10.00 Reduced from £17.99,an intimate, personal and brutally honest memoir of the lives and deaths of two people; the author's sister-in-law, who fought bravely against terminal cancer, and the author's father, who lived to his mid-nineties. Published by : Chatto & Windus Published date : 1998 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Proud Northern Lady Martin Holmes £8.99 Anne Clifford died in 1676, full of years and honours, the great wise woman of Bishop Rainbows funeral oration, fitter for a history than a sermon. The history had to wait 300 years, for Martin Holmes to write this book, but she was not forgotten Published by : Phillimore Published date : 2001 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Quest For Adventure Chris Bonington £16.99 Remarkable feats of exploration and adventure, 1950 - 2000. A personal and remarkable celebration of exploration and adventure by a man who has done much to keep its spirit alive today. Published by : Cassell & Co. Published date : 2000 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Read's Point of View Mary E. Burkett; David Sloss £19.95 A biography of Mathias Read (1669-1747), once called the father of Cumbrian painting, and the only notable pre-picturesque painter of the Lake District. Published by : Skiddaw Press Published date : 1995 Format : Large hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Richard Brathwait - The First Lakeland Poet John Bowes £12.95 Richard Brathwait's 19th century biographer described him as 'a Christian and Upright Man'who was well proportioned, and one of the handsomest men of his day; remarkable for ready wit and humour; charitable to the poor in the extreme, so much as to have involved himself in difficulties by it'. Published by : Hugill Publications Published date : October 2007 Format : 140mm x 205mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters W. A. Speck £25.00 In his lifetime Robert Southey was very much the equal of his fellow 'Lake Poets', Coleridge and Wordsworth. But since his death his reputation has been overshadowed by their success. W. A. Speck argues that if Southey's poetry is no longer considered as significant, his other writings were more sailent and his political views far more influential than those of his fellow poets. He was, as Byron conceded, England's 'only exsisting entire man of letters'. Published by : Yale University Press Published date : 2006 Format : Large Hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Ruskin Francis O'Gorman £5.99 A pocket biography of John Ruskin, one of the greatest Victorian art and society critics. With archive photographs and reproductions of rare documents. Published by : Sutton Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Sam Bough RSA: The Rivers in Bohemia Gil & Pat Hitchon £30.00 Sam Bough is one of the nineteenth centurys most intriguing painters. From humble beginnings in Carlisle, he received little formal artistic training, but went on to become a major figure in Scottish art. His vivid landscapes and luminous seascapes are Published by : The Book Guild Ltd Published date : 1998 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Sand Pilot of Morecambe Bay Cedric Robinson £9.99 An autobiographical book of memoirs about Cedrics life guiding walkers across the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay, foreword by Yorkshire writer Hannah Hauxwell. Published by : Atlantic Publishers Published date : 1998 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Sarah Losh and Wreay Church Stephen Matthews £15.00 Sarah Losh built Wreay Church in 1842. It is one of the most delightful, unusual and inspired of all Victorian churches. 'Sarah Losh and Wreay Church' is the story of this remarkable woman and her visionary work. Published by : BOOKCASE Published date : May 2007 Format : 170mm x 245mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity: