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Climbing Skiddaw

A history and anthology

Stephen Matthews

£15.00

Charles Lamb felt a special thrill when he stood on the summit of Skiddaw. Coleridge left his name on a slate. Wordsworth kicked over a kettle. Southey mocked him. Ruskin had a mystical vision. Ann Radcliffe gloried in the panorama and the King of Saxony drank his best sherry.

Some had a spiritual experience, others were excited and some, like John Keats, gave up when they were half way up. ‘Climbing Skiddaw’ is a history and anthology of the many people who climbed t’the tippy’ top o’ Skiddaw in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

publisher:

Bookcase

pages:

272

Publication Date:

2019 March

format:

Paperback; 147 x 209mm

ISBN:

9781912181223

illustrations:

None