Wainwright: The Biography

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.

With full access to private letters and unpublished material, Hunter Davies’s classic biography sheds surprising new light on this enigmatic man, and reveals a more passionate, witty and generous person than readers of his guides have come to expect.