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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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The First Man To Walk Hadrian's Wall 1802

William Hutton
£4.95

A journey with the author along the length of the Roman wall, describing the people and places along the way.

Published by : Frank Graham
Published date : 1990
Format : Paperback.

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The Forgotten Man of Lakeland

Sheila Richardson
£12.00

The story of William Palmer, an author of national repute who was also a more than competent mountaineer, but his books went out of fashion with the passing of years and his name was largely forgotten (though not in the world of secondhand books).

Published by : Mill Field Publications
Published date : 1997
Format : Paperback.

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The Friendship - Wordsworth and Coleridge

Adam Sisman
£10.00

REDUCED FROM £20.00..........

The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came 'Lyrical Ballads', the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in England. Rarely, if ever, have two such gifted young writers co-operated so closely. Coleridge, who acknowledged Wordsworth as the greatest poet since Milton, was himself a poet of unique talents, and moreover was widely recognised to be the greatest genius of his age. The story of this unique pairing is compelling and often poignant. No previous biographer has considered them together, as Adam Sisman does in this fascinating book. The result offers insights into the rich yet neglected topic of friendship, and the tantalising glimpses of the creative process itself.

Published by : Harper Collins
Published date : Sept 2006
Format : 160mm x 240mm

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The Funny Farm: The Laughter, Tears and Wacky World of One Woman's Farm in Cumbria

Jackie Moffat
£7.99

Jackie Moffat lived on the outskirts of London until 1982, when she and her husband decided to move to a small stockrearing and dairy farm in the Eden Valley.

Published by : Transworld Publishers
Published date : 2004
Format : Paperback..

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The Hasells of Dalemain: A Cumberland Family 1736-1794

Frances Wilkins
£18.95

Williams, Edward, Christopher and John were the four sons of Edward and Julia Hasell of Daleman, near Penrith. The detailed story of this generation of Hasells, from the birth of Williams in 1736 to the death of Edward in 1794, is reconstructed from

Published by : Wyre Forest Press
Published date : 2003
Format : Large hardback.

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The Hidden Wordsworth

Kenneth R. Johnston
£15.00

Reduced from £30.00, a thorough biography drawing on many private and personal papers and letters.

Published by : W.W. Norton
Published date : 1998
Format : Hardback.

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The Hidden Wordsworth

Kenneth R. Johnston
£15.00

A thorough biography drawing on many private and personal papers and letters.

Published by : Pimlico
Published date : 2000
Format : Large paperback.

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The Journal of a Short Tour to the Lakes in 1822

Ian Broadway
£10.00

When Ian Broadway discovered John May's Journal in an auction it was in a parlous state. But the names Coleridge and Southey leapt out at him.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 2007
Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback

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The Leaves We Write On

Mark Cropper
£12.50

James Cropper is one of the oldest names in British paper-making and a great survivor from an age where British industry dominated the world. Uniquely situated in the foothills of the Lake District since its foundation in 1845, today the company is one of the world's leading producers of coloured and specialist papers.

Published by : Ellergreen Press
Published date : 2004
Format : Paperback.

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The Leaves We Write On

Mark Cropper
£25.00

James Cropper is one of the oldest names in British paper-making and a great survivor from an age when British industry dominated the world. Uniquely situated in the foothills of the Lake District since its foundation in 1845, today the company is one of the world's leading producers of coloured and specialist papers.

Published by : Ellergreen Press
Published date : 2004
Format : Hardback.

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The Legacy: The Huttons of Penrith and Beetham

Barbara C. Lee
£7.50

A story of the search for family history, with the author and her husband investigating the names and places mentioned in their family tree.

Published by : Mrs Barbara Lee
Published date : 1997
Format : Paperback.

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The Life of Thomas Hayton Mawson: Landscape Architect 1861-1933

Elizabeth Kissack
£11.99

Thomas Hayton Mawson, born in Scorton near Lancaster in 1861, was destined to become a brilliant pioneer of his generation in both landscape design and town planning and his books on "The Art & Craft of Garden Making", were to influence planners as far apart as America and Greece. It was Windermere that he made his home and the Lake District, therefore, is rich in examples of his early work.

Published by : Stramongate Press
Published date : 2006
Format : Small Paperback

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The Next Horizon

Chris Bonington
£14.99

The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Boningtons autobiography picks up the climbing story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader.

Published by : Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published date : 2001
Format : Large paperback.

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The Other Side of the Dale

Gervase Phinn
£6.99

A delightfully warm and humorous account of Gervase Phinns experiences in his first year as a school inspector in North Yorkshire. He meets with farmers, nuns, and endearing Dales children, for whom he has a particular affection.

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

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The Painted Letters of Percy Kelly

Chris Wadsworth
£30.00

This story of a friendship between the artist Percy Kelly and Joan David, a retired scientist and art collector, is told through a unique series of illustrated letters which were sent over a period of ten years. The letters are full of vivid memories

Published by : Castlegate House Gallery
Published date : 2004
Format : Large hardback.

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The Quakers in North-West England: And Sometime Upon the Hills

Donald A. Rooksby
£5.00

A guidebook to places of Quaker interest in Cumbria, North Lancashire, the Yorkshire Dales and the Pennines.

Published by : Donald A. Rooksby
Published date : 1998
Format : Paperback.

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The Quakers in North-West England: The Man in Leather Breeches

Donald A. Rooksby
£5.00

This concise book outlines the history of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in North-West England and describes the many sites of Quaker interest.

Published by : Donald A. Rooksby
Published date : 1994
Format : Paperback.

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The Rake's Diary: The Journal of George Hilton

Anne Hillman
£5.99

A fascinating look at the life of the infamous George Hilton through this reproduction of his diary and accounts book.

Published by : Curwen Archives Trust
Published date : 1994
Format : Paperback.

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The Rock Men: Pioneers of Lakeland Geology

Alan Smith (ed)
£8.99

This book presents portraits of 25 of the early Rock Men - some of the significant people who set out to decipher the geology of the district from the early days of science.

Published by : Cumberland Geological Society
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

Kathryn Hughes
£7.99

In this warm, elegant and expertly researched biography, Kathryn Hughes shines a light into the chasm that lay between Mrs Beeton's private and public life, and explores just how a woman who died at the age of twenty-eight managed to become one of the most powerful cultural icons of all time.

Published by : Harper Perennial
Published date : 2006
Format : Small Paperback

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The Solitude of Mountains

Stephen Hebron Conal Shields & TimothyWilcox
£22.50

This beautifully produced book is the first full treatment of John Constable's tour of the Lake District in September and October 1806.


Published by : Wordsworth Trust
Published date : 2006
Format : 210 x 284mm paperback

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The Sporting Life: Chris Balderstone

Alan Porter
£11.99

Reduced from £16.99.Playing cricket and football non-stop for 20 years, followed by nine years of cricket alone, allowed Chris Balderstone to play in 644 games of league and cup football. He scored 19,000 runs and took 310 wickets in first class cricket, a feat

Published by : Elaine Humes
Published date : 2002
Format : Hardback.

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The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

George MacDonald Fraser
£12.99

The classic history of the Border Reivers told by Carlisle born George Macdonald Fraser

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1995
Format : Paperback.

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The story of a Lead - Mining Family

Norma L. Smith
£9.50

Based around the Thomson family of The Bell, Newbiggin, Teesdale,the author has written a short history of the rise and fall of lead-mining on the Cumberland and Northumberland border where living conditions were invariably hard and the landscape harsh.

Published by : Mosaic (Teesdale)
Published date : 2007
Format : 145mm 210mm paperback

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The Story of Beatrix Potter: A Junior Biography


£3.99

This is a charming and lavishly illustrated book, telling the fascinating story of how Beatrix Potter became an author and made her life in the countryside she loved. It is written in an easy to read style suitable for children.

Published by : Frederick Warne
Published date : 2005
Format : Small hardback.

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