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| Book Number | B0014915 |
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| Title | Memoirs of a Fellwanderer |
| Author(s) | Author: Wainwright, Alfred Illustrator: Alfred Wainwright Foreword By: Wainwright, Betty Alfred Wainwright (1907 to 1991)—British fell walker, guidebook author and illustrator, best known for his seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the standard reference work to the 214 fells of the English Lake District, which are now known as 'Wainwrights'. He also wrote and illustrated numerous other books on the Lake District, Scotland, Northern England and Wales including two of his other major works, Westmorland Heritage and Wainwright in Lakeland |
| Edition and Format | First Edition, Second Printing—Book edition identified by: Publisher's imprint information states 'First published in Great Britain in April 1993 [line break] Second impression before publication'. Dust jacket edition identified by: Priced £15.99 on the front flap. [References: Alfred Wainwright Illustrated Guide to First Editions by Linden Burke, reference 61] Hardcover, Quarto 245 mm (9 5/8 inches) by 175 mm (6 7/8 inches). Xiii, [i] and 210 printed pages in publisher's original red cloth with gilt 'A. Wainwright', 'Memoirs of a Fellwanderer' and Michael Joseph logo on the spine, in dust jacket. Contains black and white and colour photographs and illustrations by Alfred Wainwright. ISBN 0718140656 [9780718140656] |
| Publisher(s) | Michael Joseph (An imprint of Penguin Group), London, 1993 Michael Joseph Ltd—A British publisher, now part of the Penguin Group. [McBride page 60] [Zempel and Verkler page 236] . |
| Series | Photo Book Series Number Eleven Photo Book Series—A series of books by Alfred Wainwright produced in a coffee table style, motivated by his failing eyesight, which made producing new quality drawings difficult. They mostly used photographs by Derry Brabbs combined with a selection of Wainwrights previously published illustrations and newly written text. Wainwright in the Limestone Dales and Wainwright's Tour in the Lake District used Ed Geldard as photographer and Fellwalking with a Camera used Wainwright's own black and white photographs. The complete series runs: Fellwalking with Wainwright, Wainwright on the Pennine Way, Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk, Fellwalking with a Camera, Wainwright in Scotland, Wainwright on the Lakeland Mountain Passes, Wainwright in the Limestone Dales, Wainwright's Favourite Lakeland Mountains, Wainwright in the Valleys of Lakeland and Wainwright's tour in the Lake District. The series contains 10 books. The first book was originally published in 1984 and the last book was originally published in 1993 |
| Content | Content A memoir that details Wainwright's childhood in Blackburn, his rise from being an office boy to Borough Treasurer and the story behind the Pictorial Guides. It mixes material from Fellwanderer and Ex-Fellwanderer, along with new material and many reproductions of drawings alongside Wainwrights photograph that he used to produce his illustrations. |
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