A. Wainwright finished this, his last book, shortly before his death in January 1991. As his eyesight failed, Wainwright relied on his memories of the landscape he loved. This book is full of personal reminiscences of happy explorations in the days when Lakeland had fewer visitors. Wainwright travels through 42 principal valleys and their side valleys, from the best known and most beautiful to the lesser known or more remote valleys. Throughout he finds happiness in nature, which is disturbed only when he perceives man's negative effect on the landscape.
- ISBN10 0718134885
- ISBN13 9780718134884
- Publish Date 15 July 1996 (first published 24 September 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Mermaid Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 232
- Language English