Personal Accounts

A Walk Around the Lakes - Hunter Davies



Publisher: Weidenfield and Nicholson 1979

Details: A year spent walking around the Lake district, focuses a lot on literary side of the area; Beatrix Potter, Wordsworth, Ruskin, John Peel, as well as present day and Wainwright.

Format: Hardback first edition first print. B/W photos.

ISBN: 0297775677

Condition: Owner's name on title page. Unclipped jacket has a bit of rubbing / edgewear, faded on spine.
No foxing.

Price:£9.00

A Pennine Journey - A Wainwright



Publisher: Michael Joseph 1986

Details: A Story of a Long Walk in 1938 from Settle to Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland and back again.

Format: Hardback first edition first print.

ISBN: 0718127307

Condition: Unclipped jacket has a couple of small nicks and a little rubbing around edges. Boards starting to fade a bit along top edgee.Clean inside without inscriptions

Price:£28.00

A Walk Along the Wall - Hunter Davies SIGNED



Publisher: Weidenfield & Nicholson

Details: A year spent on Hadrian's Wall in Tyneside, Northumberland & Cumbria - part travel part sociology - all personal experience. Written in 1974 this gives a snapshot of life in the times of Swan Hunter Shipyard long before Segedunum was made into a museum as well as a look at how bits of the wall were unearthed to give us what we see today.

Format: Signed (without dedication) hardback first edition.

ISBN:0297767100

Condition: Jacket and boards a bit bumped at spine ends and corners, unclipped.

Price:£18.00

The Great Walking Adventure - Hamish Brown



Publisher: Oxford Illustrated Pess 1986

Details: Chapters of author's adventures inc Shetland, Morocco, Highland Coast to Coast, Corsica, Ireland, Norway, Peru, Somerset, St Kilda, Nanda Devi - India.

Format: HB

ISBN:0946609128

Condition: Faded spine, edgewear, no inscriptions. Unclipped.

Price:£5.00

Mountain Trail - The Pennine Way - John Wood



Publisher: For Blackfriars press by George Allen & Unwin 1947

Details: From the Peak to the Cheviots 232 pages of info, index, appendix written as 'Now we head up to..." so draws the reader in.

Format: HB

Condition: Poor jacket with areas of loss although not price clipped. -
Boards have a bit of damage around top of spine. Inside is free from inscriptions.
Nice end maps of the Pennine Way, pencil drawings.

Price:£5.00

Going Dutch: The Pennine Way - Gerard C. de Waal



Publisher: GeDeWe

Details: Humourous account of two Dutchmen's Pennine Walk

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9080013315

Condition: Well read (spine good), small name inside, bit of spotting to edges.

Price:£2.00

Planet Walker - John Francis ARE



Publisher: National Geographic USA

Details: 22 years of walking, 17 years of silence

Format: Paperback - Uncorrected Advanced Reader's Edition

ISBN: 9781426203633

Condition: Read through, some rubbing else fine, clean inside.

Price:£6.00

Three Degrees West - Stephen Sankey



Publisher: John Donald 1990

Details: A Walk Through Britain's Local & Natural History

Format: Large format paperback

ISBN: 089762998

Condition: Corners turned over,slight edge grubbiness, clean inside.

Price:£5.50

The Appalachian Trail - Anne & Myron Sutton



Publisher: J B Lippincott 1967 USA

Details: All round discussion of the AT ; geology, plants, seasons, history, threats, do&don'ts, tips, based on authors experience.

Format: HB

ISBN:0397004591

Condition: Jacket worn at edges - mainly at spine ends and corners. price clipped else a lovely clean copy with beuatiful cream paper/brown writing/ sepia style photos.

Price:£10.00