Mermaid Books
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Limestone country covers the north of England areas of the Yorkshire Dales and Pennine Spur. It is a landscape full of green fields and grey stone walls, limestone pavements - such as at Malham Cove - and limestone scars. The book recalls many walks there that the author has made, which he wrote about in his book walks in the limestone country. This book is illustrated with colour photographs by Ed Geldard.
This work is a portrait of mountain landscapes in the Lake District, created as a collection of 18 walks which have given the author special pleasure. The descriptions are accompanied by Derry Brabb's photographs whose first work appeared in "James Herriot's Yorkshire". Alfred Wainwright is the author of the "Pictoral Guides to the Lakeland Fells" which are the inspiration for this book. He has prepared over 40 guidebooks and volumes of drawings.
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.