Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Hike Around the Lake District

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Explore towering mountains, wide-open valleys and magnificent lakes – stopping off at a cosy inn or two along the way – on a. Neither travel guide nor gushing panegyric, Lost in the Lakes is a book for the everyday ambler: gentle, slow-paced and sweetly uplifting at every turn. His bagging of Scafell Pike for example was on a cold and windy day with clouds below so no views to speak of. WalkLakes recognises that hill walking, or walking in the mountains, is an activity with a danger of personal injury or death. But while the author is not pretending to have surpassed recognisable logic with his mileage, and not claiming to have recognised the three-throated chiff-warbler by sound alone, this really is my kind of Lakes travel book.

And while the latter is about to become the latest subject it's not that interesting to read years-old reportage on, it will never beat covid for that. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Yes, I find a lot of books about hikes where the author imposes her/him-self too much on proceedings, telling us how wonderfully they romped here, how drizzly the weather was there, and what they saw with their flawless bird-spotting eyes. He is not obsessed by “bagging Wainwrights”, the peaks made famous by Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991) in his excellent Pictorial Guide series, though he does clamber up a few from time to time. Just remember to take a camping mat and some fuel… and you can stay in a bothy without any bother at all.This is a Lake District as lived, and not as seen on a day hike – there are trips to extinct quarries with their exhibitions of the industrial plant of the region, there are encounters with people decommissioning Sellafield. Not for him the chocolate box guide, but a grittier account of his travails, and his travels, on a journey of self-discovery. Also felt bit repetitive by tje end - only so much many inns to drink in and hills to climb before you're looking longingly at the bookcase for your next read. We get what it was like to try and hike this hill, and some of the distances, but this is about the experience when you let a place reveal something of its heart – something arguably so few people do in the Lakes. He has a journalist's ability to intersperse descriptions of dazzling scenery with brisk historical facts.

Pay in 4 is a form of credit, so consider whether you can afford the repayments as use of the product may impact your credit score. OK, Wordsworth and everyone and their dog since have written one of the 50,000 books about the Lakes and you can still find yourself alone, but I will not be alone in wanting to follow the list of hostelries mentioned as one 370-mile long pub crawl. From Penrith to Ullswater, via Keswick, Cockermouth, Coniston, Grasmere and Windermere, plus many places in between, Tom Chesshyre puts on his walking boots and sets forth along the trails, drawn onwards by the dramatic scenery that attracts more than 19 million visitors each year. A new vision of the Lakes as a capsule history of the kingdom as a whole, with its ambivalent approach to 'nature' (worshipful but predatory), its rapacious extraction of resources, its many migrations and, inevitably, class. In the Lake District, there are a mere five bothies (bothies really being a more common Scottish phenomenon).For more infomation please review our use of cookies in our Cookie Policy and then Accept and Close this bar.