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| Book Number | B0015768 |
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| Title | Wainwright's Tour in the Lake District Whitsuntide 1931 |
| Author(s) | Author: Wainwright, Alfred Illustrator: Alfred Wainwright Photographer: Geldard, Ed 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 and Ed Geldard—British walker and landscape photographer, and a former freelancer for the Northern Echo Group, best known for his collaboration with Alfred Wainwright on 'Wainwright in the Limestone Dales' and 'Wainwright's Tour in the Lake District', winner of the Tullie House prize in the Lakeland Book of the Year Award |
| Edition and Format | First Edition, [First Printing] —Book edition identified by: Publisher's imprint information states 'First published in Great Britain in 1993 ' and no later editions or printings stated in the publisher's imprint information. Dust jacket edition identified by: Blurb and priced '£18.50 Net' on the front flap. [References: Alfred Wainwright Illustrated Guide to First Editions by Linden Burke, reference 60] Hardcover, Quarto 246 mm (9 5/8 inches) by 220 mm (8 5/8 inches). Viii and 216 printed pages in publisher's original blue cloth with silver 'Wainwright's Tour in the Lake District Whitsuntide 1931' and Michael Joseph logo on the spine, in dust jacket. Contains black and white photographs and illustrations by Alfred Wainwright and black and white and colour photographs by Ed Geldard. ISBN 0718136950 [9780718136956] |
| 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 Ten 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 Describes a 104 mile long-distance walk around the Lake District, which Wainwright and three companions, Jim Shaples, Harry Driver and Eric Maudsley, completed in six days over the Whitsuntide holiday of 1931. |
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