In his amiable and relaxed company we climb the fells and skirt the lakes; just as engagingly, we meet a carnival of characters whose personalities and opinions are the real focus of Chesshyre's tale. A good travelogue is the one that makes me open a map and check if I could visit those places and walk on those path. What is impressive though is that he had a plan and he stuck to it - so all his accommodation was pre-booked and he arrived everywhere when he planned to, doing it all on foot. Rides graded from easy to challenging, with best pubs and tea stops, wild swims, finest viewpoints and accommodation too.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. A perfect gift for the avid cyclist, the armchair explorer or the London family keen to escape by train. I feel as though I have more knowledge now about the different places that I didn't know and have also added a few places to my list for when we go back. The map at the front of the book makes it easy to see where he is and where he is going and the chapters are broken down into the different places he visits. WalkLakes recognises that hill walking, or walking in the mountains, is an activity with a danger of personal injury or death.Loved that he had a plan and stick to it - all his accommodation was pre-booked and he arrived everywhere he planned on foot. 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. Rebecca Lowe, journalist and author of The Slow Road to Tehran * Lyrical, witty and full of cheer, Lost in the Lakes avoids tales of heroic climbs in favour of the quieter - and oft-overlooked - story of everyday life in one of Britain's rural honey-pots. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. If you are interested in the lake district read it but if you aren't get another one of the millions that already exist. A Serving of Crime with a Difference - You May Just Discover Something Unique, Different, or Unusual in These 20 Crime Novels. This is the Lake District for the casual rambler seen from its walking paths – with a backpack on, an open mind… and a spring in the step.

Had I done so, it would have been toasty and perfect, not that I had particularly minded with an engrossing book to read by candlelight – and a good bottle of red wine.

mile - that's 904,271 steps over 32 days - odyssey, during which he finds himself falling in love all over again with this remote wilderness. Tom Chesshyre sets off to make a meandering circle of the Lake District on foot with one aim in mind: ‘to let happenchance lead the way. 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. The best travel writing is about people as much as places, and the best way to meet the people who inhabit or visit a place is on foot.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. A charming book, brimming with tender affection for this ‘magnificent… dreamy patchwork’ of peaks, tarns and ‘serpentine valleys… between soaring slopes’. The flip side to that is that these pages are so winsome – the best beer garden in the county, the bluest fake nails on a barmaid, and so on – that (besides a bizarre liking for Bob Marley) this place could be inundated by Chesshyre fans. He has a journalist's ability to intersperse descriptions of dazzling scenery with brisk historical facts. Tom Chesshyre is no brash Wainwright-bagger, but instead a relaxed, affable guide who takes us on a ‘big wobbly circle’ of a stroll around all sixteen main lakes: an impressive 379 miles in all.