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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. London. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. 2010. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including the number 1 on the copyright page). Hard Cover. Imperial 8vo 11" x 7½" [27.9cm x 19cm] approx. 314 pp and detailed notes to the rear. Beautifully produced volume showing Tarn Hows to the half title page and Grasmere from the southern shore on the double spread previous page. Full of illustrations in colour and black and white with drawings and maps. Book is new. With more than 20 million visitors each year, the Lake District retains its fascination for people from all over Britain and abroad. Ian Thompson, who grew up in nearby Barrow-in-Furness and went fell-walking from an early age, is well-equipped to reveal the area's allure. He tells how it was the chance combination of a fascination with the Alps and the outbreak of the Napoleonic wars that provided the spark for a national obsession. And in brief elegant chapters he shows how Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and De Quincey transformed the perception of the region from one of 'horrid mountains' to 'vales of peace'. Later the work of J. M. W. Turner, John Ruskin, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Ransome and Alfred Wainwright, the great populariser of fell-walking, all in their different ways contributed to making the region what it is today. Crammed with fascinating detail and illustrated with Thompson's own superb colour photography and more than 80 other colour illustrations, "The English Lakes" is sheer delight. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Seller Inventory # *FEB0424008
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