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Biography

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The Walton Family: A Lead Mining Dynasty of the Northern Pennines

Alastair Robertson
£8.95

A history of the Walton family, dating back to 1734. Their involvement in the lead industry of the North Pennines spanned five generations. They were major partners in several mines and held shares in many more; they also owned two lead smelt mines.

Published by : Hundy Publications
Published date : 2004
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

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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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Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Triumph of Sepu Kangri

Chris Bonington; Charles Clarke
£10.00

Reduced from £18.99, the story of the authors attempts to reach the summit of the Great White Snow God, and how the 22,800 ft secret mountain rejected them, but as they say,

Published by : Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published date : 1999
Format : Hardback.

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Touching the Void

Joe Simpson
£7.99

A classic mountaineering story, with the author and his colleague pushing themselves to the limits of human endurance.

Published by : Vintage
Published date : 1997
Format : Paperback.

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Towards the Dawn

Joe Corry
£9.99

Born in Kirkoswald, Cumbria, Joe Corry was an ordinary young working man in 1939. This is the story of his preparation for war and the eventual role he was to play in it. The wartime action takes the reader into the very heart of a Special Services Unit,

Published by : P3 Publications
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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Travail So Gladly Spent

Tom Price
£17.50

The author, who hails from Threlkeld, writes about his travels and adventures.

Published by : Ernest Press
Published date : 2000
Format : Hardback.

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Travail So Gladly Spent

Tom Price
£12.00

The author, who is from Threlkeld, writes about his travels and adventures. New in paperback.

Published by : The Ernest Press
Published date : 2002
Format : Paperback.

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Treasures of the Wordsworth Trust

Robert Woof
£20.00

Treasures of the Wordsworth Trust was published to celebrate the opening of the Jerwood Centre by Seamus Heaney in June 2005. It gives a selection of one hundred items from the Trust's collections of books, manuscripts, paintings, drawings and engravings that have been bulit up since the Trust's foundation in 1891.

Published by : Wordsworth Trust
Published date : 2005
Format : Large Paperback

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Under Two Flags

Norman Hiscox
£8.00

The moving story of the authors experiences with the Border Regiment.

Published by : Pentland Press
Published date : 1997
Format : Hardback.

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Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in their time

A.S. Byatt
£8.99

Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt examines the relationship between these two poets against the background of the great changes of their times - in politics, society, education and literature.

Published by : Vintage
Published date : 1997
Format : Paperback.

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Up and Down in the Dales - Book on Tape

Gervase Phinn
£8.50

Gervase Phinn reads his latest book. Running time over 3 hours.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 2004
Format : Audio Cassette.

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W.H. Auden: Pennine Poet

Alan Myers; Robert Forsythe
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Published by : North Pennines Heritage Trust
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Wainwright

W R Mitchell
£5.00

Alfred Wainwright (1907-91) bestrode the lonely fells of the Lake District, making notes and taking photographs that became the raw material for a series of remarkable Pictorial Guides.

Published by : Castleberg
Published date : 2007
Format : 125mm x 198mm paperback

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Wainwright - His Life From Milltown to Mountain

W R Mitchell
£16.99

Alfred Wainwright (1907 - 1991) became the proverbial legend in his own lifetime.

Published by : Great Northern Books
Published date : October 2009
Format : 190mm x 248mm hardback

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Wainwright: The Biography

Hunter Davies
£8.99

Alfred Wainwrights unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for years. Yet, despite many bestselling books and three television series, Wainwright remained an intensely private person.

Published by : Orion
Published date : 1998
Format : Paperback.

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Whitewash and Brown Paint - Lovely ; The Sketchbooks of Percy Kelly

Chris Wadsworth
£10.00

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Percy Kelly was born in Workington, an industrial town on the west coast of Cumbria. He left school at 14 and joined the postal service and served in the Signals regiment in the 1940 war.

Published by : Castlegate House
Published date : March 2007
Format : hardback; 150 x 210 mm

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