SYLVAN'S PICTORIAL HANDBOOK TO THE ENGLISH LAKES
Illustrated by Thomas Gilks, Edward Gilks
Published by Evans & Longley Associates
in 1974
ISBN: 0904293025
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SYLVAN'S PICTORIAL HANDBOOK TO THE ENGLISH LAKES
Illustrated by Thomas Gilks, Edward Gilks.
Stock no. 1830026
1st thus.
1974.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
With a new Foreword by John Wyatt, Head Warden, Lake District National Park. He writes: 'The author of this little gem of a guide is unknown... but, Sylvan's Handbook is still not only capable of helping the new adventurer intto the bewitching wilderness: it is also very much a book for browsers...' First published in 1847 by John Johnstone, republished in this edition in 1974 by Evans & Longley Associates. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations & maps. 248 pages including index plus folding map to rear. ISBN: 0904293025. Minor rubbing to base of spine. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly browned.
Front cover
Contents
- LANCASTER
- Route over the Sands to Furness
- Lancaster to Kendal (by Railway)
- KENDAL
- Ruins - Kendal Castle
- Ramble to Scout Scar
- Ramble to Cunswick Hall
- Ramble to Sizergh Hall
- Ramble to Levens Hall
- Ramble to Dallam Tower
- Ramble to Burneside Hall
- Ramble to Collin Field
- Kendle to Bowness
- Kendle to Ambleside
- Excursion to Troutbeck
- AMBLESIDE
- Stock Gill Force
- Ascent of Wansfell Pike
- Excursions from Ambleside
- Rydal Water and Grasmere
- On Windermere
- To Langdale Pikes
- Ascent of Langdale Pikes
- Ascent of Loughrigg Fell
- To Easdale
- Ascent of Fairfield
- Esthwaite and Coniston Waters
- Ascent of Coniston Old Man
- Coniston to Ulverston
- ULVERSTON
- Over the Sands to Cartmel
- To Conishead Priory and Barsea
- The Islands of Furness
- Furness Abbey
- Furness Abbey to Eskdale
- Dalton to Broughton
- Broughton to Seathwaite and Eskdale
- Ambleside to Keswick
- Ambleside to Ulleswater
- Ambleside to Hawes Water
- Ascent of High Street
- KESWICK
- Excursions from Keswick
- Circuit of Derwent Water
- Ascent of Skiddaw
- Round Bassenthwaite Lake
- The Vale of St. John's and Saddleback
- Ascent of Saddleback
- To Buttermere (through Newlands)
- To Crummock and Lowes Waters (through the Vale of Lorton)
- Derwent Water and its Islands
- To Borrowdale
- Borrowdale to Buttermere Crummock and Lowes Water
- Buttermere to Ennerdale Water
- Borrowdale to Wast Water
- Ascent of Scaw Fell
- Wast Water to Cockermouth
- To Carlisle and Penrith
- PENRITH
- Excursion to Hawes Water
- Excursion to Ulleswater
- Ascent of Helvellyn
- Patterdale to Ambleside