Dykes, Drongs, Sarns, Snickets
David Craig: Walking England, 20 December 2012
The English Lakes: A History
by Ian Thompson.
Bloomsbury, 343 pp., £16.99, March 2012,978 1 4088 0958 7 Show More
by Ian Thompson.
Bloomsbury, 343 pp., £16.99, March 2012,
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
by Robert Macfarlane.
Hamish Hamilton, 432 pp., £20, June 2012,978 0 241 14381 0 Show More
by Robert Macfarlane.
Hamish Hamilton, 432 pp., £20, June 2012,
“... he loathes the thought of the common people ‘seeing Helvellyn while they are drunk’. Beatrix Potter writes and illustrates sharp-eyed stories set round Hawkshead, Sawrey and the dale of Newlands, settles there finally and specialises in native breeds of sheep. Arthur Ransome writes stories set in Coniston (and elsewhere) and inspires me and many ... ”