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Coast to Coast: Finding Wainwright's England
Join Paul, as he takes to the great outdoors and follows in the great Alfred Wainwright's footsteps on one of the world's best known and most popular walks. Taking in beautiful valleys, misty moors, lovely lakes and pleasing plains, find out about the literal and spiritual highs and lows of this 192-mile walk from St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay, all told in a flowing, candid and light-hearted story that turns tragedy into triumph.Delving into the history as he goes along, this book will make you want to follow in his footsteps yourself, or if you have already done the Coast to Coast, you will want to grab your shoes and do it again.Mysterious monsters, funny facts and famous figures await. Who knew that there could be so much history attached to this walk. Bridges built for lovers, amazing stories of pirates, devastating murders, stone circles, plots to blow the lake district sky high and ghost stories are all amusingly told against the backdrop of the walk itself.
Paul and his friends spend two weeks tracing Wainwrights footsteps in search of an England of old, one that may not have changed as much as you would expect. Faced with challenges from the weather, from themselves and from other hikers, they get drenched, sunburned and lost, all in equal proportions, and time and again are forced to hide in pubs.This book will make you laugh and will make you cry and if you want to know if they make it, then read on to find out more.
This is Paul's third book, following up on the success of 54 Degrees North and Rambling On.
Paul Amess was born and bred in Hull, Yorkshire, and spent many years travelling the world to exotic places until it finally dawned on him that the best place in the world was right on his own doorstep. He now spends as much of his time as possible walking around England learning about its fascinating history and meeting often interesting and usually strange people.
Paul and his friends spend two weeks tracing Wainwrights footsteps in search of an England of old, one that may not have changed as much as you would expect. Faced with challenges from the weather, from themselves and from other hikers, they get drenched, sunburned and lost, all in equal proportions, and time and again are forced to hide in pubs.This book will make you laugh and will make you cry and if you want to know if they make it, then read on to find out more.
This is Paul's third book, following up on the success of 54 Degrees North and Rambling On.
Paul Amess was born and bred in Hull, Yorkshire, and spent many years travelling the world to exotic places until it finally dawned on him that the best place in the world was right on his own doorstep. He now spends as much of his time as possible walking around England learning about its fascinating history and meeting often interesting and usually strange people.
271 pages, Paperback
Published November 11, 2020
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February 22, 2021
Reminded us of our walk
We did the walk in 1996 so we were able to follow the book with our diary. Brought back great memories- and some not so great ones like the torrential rain on Shap Fell.
Moving on to Hadrian’s Wall now which we walked in 2010.
We did the walk in 1996 so we were able to follow the book with our diary. Brought back great memories- and some not so great ones like the torrential rain on Shap Fell.
Moving on to Hadrian’s Wall now which we walked in 2010.
July 9, 2025
About to start the Grasmere to Kirby Stephen stage (tomorrow). So interesting to read this, with fascinating stories and facts about the surrounding area. Doing the path I. One go over two weeks sounds like a slog. Great achievement though.
January 9, 2023
Entertaining, but distracting mistakes
Minor errors in place names spoilt an otherwise good account of a C2C crossing, but that’s me being pedantic and it probably wouldn’t bother someone else
Minor errors in place names spoilt an otherwise good account of a C2C crossing, but that’s me being pedantic and it probably wouldn’t bother someone else
June 27, 2025
2.5 to 3
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