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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 Man Who Couldn't Stop Drawing - The Extraordinary Life of Percy Kelly

Chris Wadsworth
£35.00

Drawing is as natural as walking. A piece of charcoal or chalk is like an extension of my forefinger.

Published by : The Studio
Published date : 2011
Format : 248mm x 232mm Hardback

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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 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 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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The Tale of Beatrix Potter

Margaret Lane
£6.99

When Beatrix Potter died in 1943 few knew the full story of her life. This sensitive and detailed biography of the childrens author has been revised and republished for the new millennium.

Published by : Frederick Warne
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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The Tale of the Mouse

Patricia Lennon
£8.99

This book examines the life and work of Robert Thompson, the 'Mouseman of Kilburn'. It will delight 'Mouseman' Aficionados with its collection of original phootographs from the Thompson family archives, many of which have never been previously published. It also contains the most comprehgensive index of Thompson work taken from the Master's own workbooks, enabling fans to seek out pieces in locations throughout yorkshire and beyond.

Published by : Great Northern Books
Published date : 2000
Format : 205mm x 200mm paperback

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The Tale of the Mouse

Patricia Lennon
£8.99

A fascinating and in depth look at the life and work of Robert Thompson, the Mouseman of Kilburn. This Yorkshire craftsman was famous for replicating the style of medieval woodcarvers, and signing each piece of work with a carved mouse. Today, original

Published by : Great Northern
Published date : 2001
Format : Large paperback.

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The Team

Sheila Richardson
£9.50

This is the story of one of the Lake Districts mountain rescue teams, told by members past and present. It has been produced to celebrate their 50 years of service. It tells of the formation of the team; the tragedy of an accident that robbed the team of

Published by : Mill Field/Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team
Published date : 2002
Format : Paperback.

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The Wartime Diary of Frank Fowler

Frank Fowler
£5.95

Frank H Fowler was an artist, writer, and keen angler, who kept a wonderful sketchbook diary recording the final years of the Second World War.

Published by : Awards for All
Published date : 2007
Format : 146mm x 210mm stitched paperback

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The Williamson Diaries Part 1 - Arthuret & Longtown

Ted Relph
£5.95

Interesting excerpts from a curate's diaries covering the years 1742 to 1781. In this book, part one of two, we have six diaries for the years George Williamson was at Arthuret parish near Carlisle.

Published by : Ravensgill Press
Published date : 1997
Format : A4 paperback

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The Williamson Diaries Part 11 - Crosby Ravensworth

Ted Relph
£9.95

Following on from Part 1 of George Williamson's Diaries we find the (not so young) curate adapting to live in his new parish of Crosby Ravensworth, near Appleby in Westmorland.

Published by : Ravensgill Press
Published date : May 2009
Format : A4 paperback

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The Wordsworths and the Daffodils

Pamela Woof: Madeline Harley
£5.95

A study of the famous and much loved poem by Wordsworth, from its shaky beginnings in 1807, to the critically acclaimed masterpiece it is today.

Published by : The Wordsworth Trust
Published date : 2002
Format : Paperback.

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This Game of Ghosts

Joe Simpson
£7.99

The sequel to Touching the Void. The author describes a climb of 20,000 feet on a mountain near Everest despite being on crutches after a fall, and looks back to his childhood to events that have led him to chose a life of climbing and danger.

Published by : Vintage
Published date : 1993
Format : Paperback.

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Thomas Gray's Journal of his Visit to the Lake District in October 1769

William Roberts (ed)
£11.95

One of the earliest and finest essays in travel-writing in English, Thomas Grays journal is frequently quoted but has never been published as a separate work. The journal captures for us the freshness of the first discovery of the Lake District.

Published by : Liverpool University Press
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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Thomas Mawson

Janet Waymark
£35.00

REDUCED BY £5.00...................

Thomas Haytor Mawson (1881-1933) began designing gardens in the 1890s.

Published by : Frances Lincoln
Published date : May 2009
Format : 305mm x 250mm hardback

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Those Blue Remembered Hills

Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington
£10.50

The majority of the author's life has been spent farming in the Scottish hills. He tells of his love of the land and the various characters he has encountered throughout his life, describing those he admires with warmth, those he does not with diplomacy, but all with a touch of humour.

Published by : The Memoir Club
Published date : 2004
Format : Paperback.

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Thr Return of a Cumbrian Copper - More Recollections of a Top Detective

Ray Huddart
£12.00

Ray Huddart, ex-Cumbrian Copper, returns, recalling more major enquiries undertaken during a long career in C.I.D.

Published by : BOOKCASE
Published date : May 2010
Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback

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Through the Pages of My Life and My Encounters with Beatrix Potter

Willow Taylor
£11.99

An affectionate and informative short biography of the much loved author and countrywoman.

Published by : Beatrix Potter Society
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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