Wainwright: The Biography
A Nonfiction, Biography, Travel book. This was an enjoyable, sympathetic but I think not rose-tinted biography of the doyen...
Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lake District have been an inspiration to walkers for over forty years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three television series, Wainwright remained an intensely private person. With full access to Alfred Wainwright's private letters and unpublished material, Hunter Davies reveals a man more passionate, witty and generous than readers of his guides have come to expect. His biography throws a new and surprising light on a...
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- Pages: 356 pages
- ISBN: 9780752848525 / 752848526
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A must-read for anyone who, like me, adores Wainwright's pictorial guides and is fascinated to learn more of the enigma behind them. It's a wonderfully written biography - being sympathetic but honest and objective. This was an enjoyable, sympathetic but I think not rose-tinted biography of the doyen of writing (and of course illustrating) on Lakeland fell walking. Wainwright comes across as someone who inspired loyalty sometimes richly deserved and sometimes frankly not and he seems to present a real puzzle, unless you put it down to capriciousness... I enjoyed this biography of a cranky, right-wing, obsessive fellwalker who expressed his devotion to the hills in a series of beautifully drawn and handwritten books. Wainwright was intensely private (hiding his first name Alfred behind the initial A, for example) so Hunter Davies does well in shining a torch into his hidden personal...
