Just a quicky to let you know that Alfred Wainwright's series of
seven pictorial guides to the Lakeland Fells have been reissued by
the new publishers Frances Lincoln and should be out there
now.
The series was discontinued by previous publisher Michael Joseph
earlier this year leading to fears that the unique books would
disappear from the shelves, but the new publishers stepped in and the
titles are even being printed in the man's home town of Kendal.
God only knows what the man himself would have made of the
new-fangled 'interweb' but the good news is that Frances Lincoln are
selling the seven reprinted titles direct from their web site -
prices at £11.99 for a hard cover are actually down on the
previous editions - together with an exclusive special offer. If you
order all seven titles direct, you'll get a 10 per-cent discount.
Click here
for more information.
Three more titles are due out in June by the way, with
Wainwright's memoirs scheduled for appearance later in the year and
his Pennine Way Companion mooted for 2004.
Meanwhile, if you're a major Wainwright fan, you need to check out
the Wainwright
Society , an organisation formed last year to venerate all things
AW and which recently held a 'Wainwright Walk'. Not sure what the
notoriously curmudgeonly old git would have made of that...
Marcus Crompton
