Julia Bradbury retraces four walks made popular by the legendary fellwalker, artist and guide writer Alfred Wainwright.
The walks are Blencathra, Haystacks, Scafell Pike and Castle Crag. Also includes the documentary ‘Wainwright: The Man Who Loved the Lakes’.
The walks featured in this book and the BBC 4 television series follow a network of locks, bridges, aqueducts and tunnels, perfect for walkers wanting to explore on foot.
It was canals that transformed Britain into an economic superpower, the transport arteries at the heart of an expanding industrial age. By the late 1700s Canal Mania was sweeping the nation and a new and growing network of transport superhighways dominated the landscape. Canals had arrived connecting towns and cities with Britain’s industrial heartlands and export hubs.
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THE six walks featured in the book follow the old tracks, overgrown cuttings and ancient viaducts which are the legacy of ‘The Beeching Axe’.
Following the enormously popular ‘Wainwright Walks’, Countryfile presenter Julia Bradbury looks at how the rise and fall of the railways has altered the lives of communities across the country.
Today, many of the thousands of old branch lines which were closed in the 1960s are now the treasured stomping grounds of ramblers and hikers.
Presenter Julia Bradbury walks what remains of the railway lines closed as a result of the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.
With over 4,000 miles of railway and 3,000 stations closed in the decade following the report, many of the routes have become a mecca for ramblers across the country. Walks featured include: Derbyshire – The Monsal Trail, Wales – Dolgellau to Barmouth, Speyside – The Strathspey Railway, Cornwall – Coast to Coast Trail, Weymouth – The Rodwell Trail, and Callander – Callander to Loch Tay.
In this new series, Julia Bradbury takes her boots and backpack to the Continent to explore the landscape of Germany and the cultural movement that made it famous Romanticism. The Germans enjoy a relationship with walking that has lasted over 200 years.
By walking in four very different parts of Germany (the Rhine, the Bavarian Alps, the island of Ruegen and Saxony) Julia explores river valleys, coastlines, mountains and gorges, following in the footsteps of Richard Wagner, Caspar David Friedrich, Johannes Brahms as well as British romantics like William Turner and Lord Byron. This is Julia s chance to discover her own sense of German Wanderlust .
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To accompany the BBC television series, Julia’s new book follows Julia as she re-traces Wainwright’s grand traverse.
The book collects together all six stages of the walk from the series, with Julia’s commentary on her experience of the walk accompanied by stills, evocative landscape photography and AW’s celebrated line drawings. Julia crosses this changing landscape in sun, wind and rain, learns something of its history and meets the people that make up almost 200 miles of northern England’s most glorious countryside.
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All six episodes of the BBC4 series in which presenter Julia Bradbury walks across the heart of Northern England from the Irish Sea in the West to the shores of the North Sea on the East coast in the footsteps of walker and guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright.
Episodes
An Unlikely Hero!
How does a quiet, shy, twelve-year-old boy deal with the village bully? – Find somewhere quiet, close his eyes and open the door to his imagination.