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The Far Eastern Fells (Walkers Edition) de Alfred Wainwright

The Far Eastern Fells (Walkers Edition): Wainwright Walkers Edition

Autor Alfred Wainwright
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 oct 2015

Când plănuim o incursiune în inima Districtului Lacurilor din Marea Britanie, ne dăm seama rapid că există un standard de aur al cartografierii montane. În volumul The Far Eastern Fells (Walkers Edition), descoperim moștenirea lăsată de Alfred Wainwright, un autor care a transformat ghidul turistic într-o formă de artă vizuală. Această ediție revizuită nu este doar un instrument de navigare, ci o invitație de a vedea muntele prin ochii unui explorator care a documentat manual fiecare potecă și creastă. Găsim în aceste pagini rute detaliate pentru ascensiunile pe High Street, Ill Bell sau Place Fell, prezentate într-un format care îmbină armonios textul explicativ cu schițele grafice. Notăm cu interes faptul că, deși păstrează farmecul original al desenelor lui Alfred Wainwright, ediția a fost actualizată de Clive Hutchby pentru a reflecta realitatea curentă a terenului. Spre deosebire de un ghid convențional, structura acestuia se bazează pe panorame de pe vârfuri și rute de creastă care permit combinarea mai multor ascensiuni într-o singură zi de drumeție. Complementar volumului The Southern Fells, unde acela se concentrează pe zona sudică a lacurilor, acest ghid explorează regiunea estică de Kirkstone Pass, oferind o perspectivă asupra zonelor mai puțin aglomerate dar la fel de spectaculoase. Față de Great Mountain Days in the Lake District de Mark Richards, care propune trasee circulare de o zi, lucrarea lui Wainwright rămâne un inventar exhaustiv al celor 214 culmi principale, oferind libertatea de a ne construi propriile itinerarii pe baza variantelor de ascensiune descrise.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780711236554
ISBN-10: 0711236550
Pagini: 316
Dimensiuni: 108 x 178 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Revised Edition
Editura: Quarto Publishing Plc
Colecția Wainwright Walkers Edition
Seria Wainwright Walkers Edition

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru pasionații de drumeții montane și cartografie, această carte oferă claritatea necesară explorării în siguranță a Districtului Lacurilor. Cititorul câștigă acces la rute verificate și hărți artistice care fac orientarea intuitivă. Este un volum esențial pentru cine dorește să descopere farmecul clasic al munților britanici, beneficiind în același timp de revizuirile moderne ale traseelor, totul într-un format compact, ideal pentru rucsac.

Descriere

One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955-66, has become the definitive guidebook. Wainwright's meticulously hand-drawn maps, diagrams and drawings take walkers up the 214 principal hills and mountains of the Lake District, describing the main routes of ascent from different starting points, as well as lesser-known variants, showing the summit viewpoint panoramas and the ridge routes that can be made to create longer walks. Every page combines words and illustrations to present the routes in a way that is original, visually appealing and easy to follow. This new edition of Wainwright's Walking Guide to the Lake District Fells has been comprehensively revised. Paths, maps, diagrams and route descriptions have been checked and corrected throughout. These revisions have been undertaken by writer and designer Clive Hutchby, author of The Wainwright Companion. The Far Eastern Fells, Book Two of Wainwright's Walking Guide, covers the entire area east of Kirkstone Pass, bordered by Ullswater in the north and Windermere in the south, and includes the ascents of High Street, Ill Bell, Place Fell and Wansfell.

Notă biografică

Born in Blackburn in 1907, Alfred Wainwright left school at the age of 13. A holiday at the age of 23 kindled a life-long love affair with the Lake District. Following a move to Kendal in 1941 he began to devote every spare moment he had to researching and compiling the original seven Pictorial Guides. He described these as his 'love letters' to the Lakeland Fells and at the end of the first, The Eastern Fells, he wrote about what the mountains had come to mean to him: "I suppose it might be said, to add impressiveness to the whole thing, that this book has been twenty years in the making, for it is so long, and more, since I first came from a smoky mill-town (forgive me, Blackburn!) and beheld, from Orrest Head, a scene of great beauty, a fascinating paradise, Lakeland's mountains and trees and water. That was the first time I had looked upon beauty, or imagined it, even. Afterwards I went often, whenever I could, and always my eyes were lifted to the hills. I was to find then, and it has been so ever since, a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains - and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindnesses of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world. In due course I came to live within sight of the hills, and I was well content. If I could not be climbing, I was happy to sit idly and dream of them, serenely. Then came a restlessness and the feeling that it was not enough to take their gifts and do nothing in return. I must dedicate something of myself, the best part of me, to them. I started to write about them, and to draw pictures of them. Doing these things, I found they were still giving and I still receiving, for a great pleasure filled me when I was so engaged - I had found a new way of escape to them and from all else less worth while. Thus it comes about that I have written this book. Not for material gain, welcome though that would be (you see I have not escaped entirely!); not for the benefit of my contemporaries, though if it brings them also to the hills I shall be well pleased; certainly not for posterity, about which I can work up no enthusiasm at all. No, this book has been written, carefully and with infinite patience, for my own pleasure and because it has seemed to bring the hills to my own fireside. If it has merit, it is because the hills have merit." A. Wainwright died in 1991 at the age of 84.

Cuprins

Angletarn Pikes
Arthur’s Pike
Beda Fell
Bonscale Pike
Branstree
Brock Crags
Caudale Moor
Froswick
Gray Crag
Grey Crag
Hallin Fell
Harter Fell
Hartsop Dodd
High Raise
High Street
Ill Bell
Kentmere Pike
Kidsty Pike
The Knott
Loadpot Hill
Mardale Ill Bell
The Nab
Place Fell
Rampsgill Head
Rest Dodd
Sallows
Selside Pike
Shipman Knotts
Sour Howes
Stell Knotts
Tarn Crag
Thornthwaite Crag
Troutbeck Tongue
Wansfell
Wether Hill
Yoke