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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Paperback.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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