Alfred Wainwright - Artist Info

About Alfred Wainwright

  • Biography

    Alfred Wainwright was a British fell-walker, guidebook author, and illustrator.

    Between 1955 and 1966, he published his seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. It consisted entirely of reproductions of his manuscript. It has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District.

    Among his other publications, is the first guide to the Coast to Coast Walk. It is a 192-mile long-distance footpath devised by Wainwright which remains popular today.

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