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All or Nothing at All, The Life Story of Billy Bland

Steve Chilton
�19.99

All or Nothing At All is the life story of Billy Bland, fellrunner extrordinaire and holder of many records including that of the Bob Graham Round until it was broken by the foreword author of this book, Kilian Jornet. It is also the story of Borrowdale in the English Lake District, describing its people, their character and their lifestyle, into which fellrunning is unmistakably woven.

Publisher :	Sandstone Press
Published :	August 2020
Pages :	320
Format :	Hardback 238 � 159 mm

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'It's Only Me'

David Raw
�12.00

This is the humbling and incredible story of Revd Theodore Hardy, VC, DSO, MC, who was the most decorated civilian of the Great War.

Publisher :	Hayloft
Published :	1988
Pages :	105
Format :	148mm x 210mm paperback

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'Over the Hills and Far Away' - The Life of Beatrix Potter

Matthew Dennison
�8.99

Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life.

Publisher :	Head of Zeus
Published :	April 2017
Pages :	272p
Format :	Paperback; 198 x 129mm

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PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley; An Extraordinary Life 1851 - 1920

Allen, Michael and Rawnsley, Rosalind
�30.00

This edition contains a bookplate signed by Rosalind Rawnsley, co-author and great-grandaughter of Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.

Publisher :	Methuen
Published :	30th September 2021
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Format :	Hardback

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A Canon in Keswick - A Keswick Anthology by Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley

Introduced and edited by Stephen Matthews
�12.00

Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1851-1920) was vicar of Crosthwaite for 34 years.

He established the Keswick School of Industrial Arts. He was one of the founders of the National Trsut and was directly responsible for the Trust owning vast tracts of land in the area.

Publisher :	Bookcase
Published :	March 2020
Pages :	217p
Format :	Paperback; 210 x 148mm

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A Lakeland Saga: The Story of the Collingwood and Altounyan Family in Coniston and Aleppo

Jeremy Collingwood
�9.99

Jeremy Collingwood brings together the lives of the English and Armenian Collingwood family in the Lake District and Syria.

Publisher :	Sigma Leisure
Published :	July 2012
Pages :	144p.
Format :	Paperback.

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A Man of No Taste Whatsoever

M E Brown
POA

This is a brief account of the life and activities of an obscure provincial gentleman who managed to combine the role of country squire in Nottinghamshire with a life of fantasy in Cumberland.

Publisher :	Author House
Published :	May 2010
Pages :	56
Format :	215mm x 215mm paperback

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A Native Breed: Starting a Lake District Hill Farm

Andrea Meanwell
�12.00

Andrea Meanwell helped out on her aunt and uncle�s hill farm in the North Pennines in Westmorland as a child and dreamt about having her own flock of sheep.

Publisher :	Hayloft
Published :	December 2016
Pages :	134p
Format :	Paperback; 178 x 120mm

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A Passionate Sisterhood

Kathleen Jones
�12.00

Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey have become such a literary myth that we are used to looking at the Lake District solely through their eyes.

Publisher :	The Book Mill
Published :	November 2010
Pages :	362
Format :	128mm x 205mm paperback

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A Peopled Landscape: A Lakes Anthology by Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley

Introduced and Edited by Stephen Matthews
�15.00

LONGLISTED FOR LAKELAND BOOK OF YEAR 2020

Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1851-1920) left his mark on the Lake District. He founded the National Trust and he fought for the conservation of the landscape. He erected monuments and resurrected festivals and established the Keswick School of Industrial Arts. And he was a very energetic, opinionated and influential clergyman and parish priest.

Publisher :	Bookcase
Published :	February 2020
Pages :	293p
Format :	Paperback; 210 x 148mm

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A Perfect Friend: The Life of Cumbrian Plant Hunter William Purdom

O. V. Presant
�18.00

Described as reticent, stubborn, courageous or endearing by those who knew him, William Purdom believed every worker deserved a living wage.

Publisher :	Hayloft
Published :	December 2019
Pages :	176p
Format :	210 x 160mm

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A Victorian Odyssey: The 1858-1872 Letters of Mungo Travers Park

Geoffrey Faux
�14.95

A Victorian Odyssey is a contemporaneous account of middle class Victorian English life related through the letters of Mungo Travers Park (great nephew of renowned African explorer Mungo Park) to his family.

Publisher :	Geoffrey Faux
Published :	Feb 2018
Pages :	409p
Format :	Paperback; 246 x 188mm

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A Wasdale Lad: A pictorial history of Lakeland farming life

Rob Steele
�10.00

After setting the scene by introducing some forbears, "A Wasdale Lad" tells the story of growing up in West Cumberland in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Publisher :	TR Publishing
Published :	September 2020
Pages :	127p
Format :	Paperback; 210 x 148mm

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A Wet Thursday Afternoon.

Terence Ted Beckett
�9.99

Sequel to Ted's popular autobiographical work, The Cannibal Mouse, this book is a further collection of tales from the everyday life of an ordinary Botcherby lad.

Publisher :	Terence Ted Beckett
Published :	March 2017
Pages :	287p
Format :	Paperback; 235 x 156mm

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An Ancient Squires Family - The History of the Aglionbys c. 1130-2002

Henry Summerson
�25.00

The Aglionbys owed their importance to the fact that they became, and remained for nine hundred years, a solid abiding presence in the squirearchy of Cumberland, a section of local society that there, as everywhere else, played a vital part in the structures of local government and social organisation.

Publisher :	Bookcase
Published :	November 2007
Pages :	272
Format :	176mm x 250mm hardback

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An Old Westmorland Garage

Bernard Crabtree edited by Anne Bonney
�9.99

Bernard Crabtree was born in 1908, the elder son of Zenas and Edith, of Osborne Terrace, Kendal. Zenas was a pattern maker from Hebden Bridge and came to Kendal in the early 1900s and helped build the first motor car in Kendal.

Publisher :	Helm Press
Published :	2000
Pages :	160p
Format :	Paperback; 208 x 148mm

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Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676

Jessica L. Malay
�19.99

Anne Clifford (1590-1676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I.

Publisher :	Manchester University Press
Published :	January 2018
Pages :	323p
Format :	Paperback; 234 x 156mm

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Arthur Ransome Under Sail

Roger Wardale
�9.99

Arthur Ransome, author of Swallows and Amazons, kept detailed logs of all his voyaging, and it is from these and countless letters to friends, as well as a wealth of anecdotes, that Roger Wardale pieced together this revealing, funny and moving portrait of the lovable and intrepid old sea-dog, Captain Flint � alias Arthur Ransome himself.

Publisher :	Sigma Leisure
Published :	April 2010
Pages :	256
Format :	148mm x 210mm paperback

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Ascent

Chris Bonnington
�9.99

Sir Chris Bonington memoir Ascent will chart not only his many triumphs in the climbing world - such as the Eiger, and the Himalaya - but also the struggles he has faced in his life bringing up a family, and maintaining a successful and loving marriage over the decades of travelling the world to conquer mountains. He has undertaken nineteen Himalayan expeditions, including four to Mount Everest which he climbed in 1985 at the age of fifty, and has made many first ascents in the Alps and greater ranges of the world.

Publisher :	Simon and Schuster
Published :	May 2018
Pages :	423p
Format :	Paperback; 198 x 129mm

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Beatrix Potter - A Life in Nature

Linda Lear
�12.99

"Beatrix Potter"'s books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life.

Publisher :	Penguin Random House
Published :	March 2008
Pages :	608p
Format :	Paperback; 198 x 132mm

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Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life

Marta McDowell
�16.99

Marta McDowell combines the skills of a historian, biographer and gardener as she explores Beatrix Potter's passion for plants.

Publisher :	Timber Press
Published :	October 2013
Pages :	339p
Format :	Hardback; 203 x 159mm

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Beatrix Potter's Scotland

Lynne McGeachie
�12.99

Beatrix Potter's Scotland gives insight into the life of one of the best-loved writers in Britain.

Publisher :	Luath
Published :	October 2010
Pages :	144
Format :	174mm x 204mm paperback

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Beatrix Potter: Her Inner World

Andrew Norman
�14.99

Andrew Norman, in this concise and insightful biography, uncovers the source of the inspiration that gave birth to a series of remarkable children's books, including the most famous of all The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

Publisher :	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Published :	January 2014
Pages :	224p
Format :	Paperback; 234 x 156mm

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Blackboards Whiteboards Chessboards! The History of Scotby Village School

Ian W. Mackay
�9.95

An affectionate and detailed history of the school in Scotby village near Carlisle, written by the headteacher and covering the history of the building itself, to past headteachers, staff and pupils, the war years and much more.

Publisher :	Ian Mackay
Published :	2004
Pages :	150
Format :	Large paperback.

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Boxer: The Life of a Cumbrian Great

Mike Gardner
�15.00

In 1980, Open Rugby Magazine named Arnold 'Boxer' Walker the best scrum half in the world. The incredible story of his life is in part, a social history of a half-forgotten era, when coal mines were the economic bed rock of close-knit communities across the north. He shines a light into what life was like in a claustrophobic Cumbrian pit deep below the Irish Sea and you will join him in the Workington Town dressing room when they beat mighty Wigan to win the Lancashire Cup for the only time in the club's history.

Publisher :	Youcaxton Publications
Published :	May 2017
Pages :	314p
Format :	Paperback; 230 x 153mm

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