A Lakeland Sketchbook (Lakeland Sketchbooks) Each drawing is accompanied by a simple map to identify the location of the viewpoint in relation to its surroundings. Wainwright was originally published in the late 1960s. The sketchbook contains 80 intricate pen-and-ink drawings of Lake
| TITLE | : | A Lakeland Sketchbook (Lakeland Sketchbooks) |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.90 (106 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0711223335 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 80 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2006-08-09 |
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This first collection of drawings by A. Wainwright was originally published in the late 1960s. In typically forthright language, the author called it his private rebellion against 'acceptance as art of poverty-stricken and barren inspiration and rank bad execution'. The sketchbook contains 80 intricate pen-and-ink drawings of Lakeland scenes. Each drawing is accompanied by a simple map to identify the location of the viewpoint in relation to its surroundings.
Editorial : About the Author Born in Blackburn in 1907, Alfred Wainwright left school at the age of 13. A holiday at the age of 23 kindled a life-long love affair with the Lake District. Following a move to Kendal in 1941 he began to devote every spare moment he had to researching and compiling the original seven Pictorial Guides. He described these as his 'love letters' to the Lakeland Fells and at the end of the first, The Eastern Fells, he wrote about what the mountains had come to mean to him: "I suppose it might be said, to add impressiveness to the whole thing, that this book has been twenty years in the making, for it is so long, and more, since I first came from a smoky mill-town (forgive me, Blackburn!) and beheld, from Orrest Head, a scene of great beauty, a fascinating paradise, Lakeland's mountains and trees and water. That was the first time I had looked upon beauty, or imagined it, eve
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