FRANCES LINCOLN

Pennine Way Companion - Second Edition
Alfred Wainwright
Revised by Chris Jesty
Preposterous Erections
A Book of English Towers
Peter Ashley
The Pennine Way – England’s first continuous long-distance path for walkers
– stretches for 268 miles from Derbyshire to the Scottish Borders along the
length of the Pennines. Inaugurated in 1965, it has become one of the most
popular long-distance footpaths in Britain. For those starting in the south,
it runs from Edale in Derbyshire through the old West and North Ridings of
Yorkshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, and Northumberland before reaching
its northern terminus at Kirk Yetholm, just over the Scottish border.
Wainwright’s handwritten guide to the route, with its magnificent detailed
maps and occasionally tongue-in-cheek text, was first published in 1968. This
new edition has been brilliantly revised and updated by Chris Jesty to meet
the goal Wainwright set for the original edition: ‘to enable walkers to follow
the Pennine Way without putting a foot wrong...’
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.
Shortly before he died in 1991, Wainwright said that if ever the Pictorial Guides
were to be revised, Chris Jesty should be given the job. Chris Jesty lives in
Kendal.
£13.99 • Hardback • 978-0-7112-3368-3 • 170 x 112mm • 224pp
b/w hand-drawn illustrations throughout • September 2012
Preposterous Erections brings together 60 uniquely fascinating
towers from all corners of England.
From the parkland Brizlee Tower in Northumberland to the coastal
Doyden Castle in Cornwall, Peter Ashley tells us their stories
through his own very individual photographs and his witty and
irreverent commentary. Although there is an obvious core of
eighteenth and nineteenth-century landowner's eccentricities,
the more recent past is not forgotten, including the instantly
recognisable Post Office tower in London's Fitzrovia and the more
retiring Lewis's department store art deco tower in Leicester.
Monument or observatory, watch tower or water tower, these are
60 of the very best. Preposterous Erections will arouse the interest
of even the most casual observer.
Peter Ashley is the author and photographer of over 20 books.
He broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 4. He lives in Slawston,
Leicestershire.
£12.99 • Paperback • 978-0-7112-3358-4 • 243 x 170mm • 128pp
125 colour photographs & illustrations • September 2012
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September 2012