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| A Coast to Coast Walk: A Pictorial Guide (Wainwright Pictorial Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: A. Wainwright
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2519
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0711222363
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780711222366
ASIN: 0711222363
Publication Date: September 14, 2007
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A wonderful guide for a wonderful walk May 13, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I did the Coast to Coast walk back in '89 (in baking hot weather) and again - partly - in '96 (in pouring rain). Up to this day the memory of this walk remains with me as vividly as ever and I consider that forthnight as the most wonderful two weeks in my life. AW learnt me to appreciate the North English Countryside with its quiet villages and open spaces, its desolate moorlands and austere fells. Furthermore, I consider this guide a little gem because of the hand drawn illustrations, maps and (witty) narrative. I mean - who hand-writes a book?
These days you will need additional map material because the route has changed in places, but this book is a requirement. I still remember reading the C-to-C walker's log book in the Danby Wiske pub where Wainwright in '89 (two years before his death) had written with a somewhat trembling, but recognisable hand: "Don't give up!"
A walk I'll never forget September 21, 2004
46 out of 47 found this review helpful
Having conceived the ever more popular coast to coast walk I'm sure AW would regret the impact it has probably had on the countryside. He wrote the walk as an example for people to go out and create their own long distance walks; but this is a classic walk that is hard to resist.Told in the usual Wainwight style of lovely pen and ink drawings, meticulous attention to detail and dry whit, this is a great guide. You should really take (and rely on) the two OS Coast to Coast maps in order to navigate and refer to Wainwright for enlightenment/enjoyment as you go along. It doesn't really give notes on planning and booking accommodation, but such research is half the fun of setting up for and doing the walk. The memory of this walk will stay with me for the rest of my life, and reading back through my battered copy of this book from time to time brings it all back to life.
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