About Alfred Wainwright Pictorial Guidebooks - Box Set Wainwrights Pictorial Guides to the Lake District have long be held as the most informative and detailed guidebooks written about one of Britains most loved areas. Now you can own them all in one collectors edition box. Start at book one, The Eastern Fells, which features the such classics as Helvellyn and Catstycam and work your way through all seven books and over 200 fells.
On your journey, you will be led through some of the finest scenery in Britain by one of the most knowledgable walkers to have put pen to paper. Even if you never set foot in the National Park, you will feel as if you've trodden then lakeland trails and ambled amongst the herdwicks. Wainwrights incredible detailed drawings and birds' eye diagrams bring the mountains to life in a way that maps and photos cannot.
FEATURES
- Detailed and accurate description of over 200 Lake District fells.
- Precise scale drawings of possible ascent routes drawn in perspective not map form.
- A wealth of local information and knowledge.
- Evocative pen and ink drawings by Wainwright himself.
- 360 degree panorama plans for summit spotting.
- Interesting and useful map and drawing inserts.
- Terrain and altitude information.
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