A. Wainwright - The fell walker's companion
Created | Updated Feb 23, 2005
PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS - And as u can see from the length of all the headers, it might take me a little while.
A.W. 1907 - 1991
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent,
but the hills are eternal.
Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest;
Always there will be the exhilaration of the summits.
These are for the seeking,
and those who seek and find, while there is yet time will be blessed in both mind and body.
INTRODUCTION
A brief introduction into the life and works of one of England's most famous, yet reclusive, fellwalkers. Author of undisputedly the definitive guide books of the English Lake District
THE MAN
Born on the 17th January 1907 in Blackburn Lancashire, Alfred Wainwright was the son of a stonemason. Born into a poor family, the youngest of four children, he left school at the age of thirteen years old to start work as an office boy in Blackburn Councils Engineering department....
THE BOOKS
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - Book 1. The Eastern Fells
1955
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - Book 2. The Far Eastern Fells
1957
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - Book 3. The Central Fells
1958
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - Book 4. The Southern Fells
1960
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - Book 5. The Northern Fells
1962
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - Book 6. The North Western Fells
1964
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - Book 7. The Western Fells
1966
Fell Wanderer - The Story behind the Guidebooks
1966
Pennine Way Companion
1968
Walks in Limestone Country
1970
Lakeland Sketchbooks 1 - 5
1969 - 1973
Walks on the Howgill Fells
1972
A Coast to Coast Walk
1973
The Outlying Fells of Lakeland
1974
Scottish Mountain Drawings Vol. 1 - 6
1974 - 1978
A Dales Sketchbook Vol. 1 - 2
1976 - 1978
Kendal in the Nineteenth Century
1977
Furness Sketchbook Vol. 1 - 2
1978 - 1979
Walks from Ratty
1978
Three Westmorland Rivers
1979
A Lune Sketchbook
1980
A Ribble Sketchbook
1980
An Eden Sketchbook
1980
Lakeland Mountain Drawings Vol. 1 - 5
1980 - 1984
Welsh Mountain Drawings
1981
Bowland Sketchbook
1981
North Wales Sketchbook
1982
A Wyre Sketchbook
1982
A South Wales Sketchbook
1983
Wainwright in Lakeland
1983
Published as a limited edition of 100 leather bound, signed and numbered
and 1000 cloth bound signed copies
Republished in 1985
A Peak District Sketchbook
1984
Old Roads of Eastern Lakeland
1985
Ex-Fellwanderer
1987
AW S 80th Birthday publication
Fellwalking with a Camera
1988
PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
