Exploring Lake District Dales

Crisp and sharp, fascinating throughout, [this book] is an outstanding journey through the Lake District. -- Bill Birkett, Author, Mountaineer and Photographer [A] detailed, highly readable guide ... I could hardly put it down. -- Will Smith * Cumbria Life * Think nothing new can be written about Cumbria... think again. Terry Marsh’s painstakingly researched and beautifully written book fizzes with new information leaping from every page. * Mick Smith, Cumbria and Lakeland Walker magazine Editor * Few contemporary writers have lingered longer or more thoughtfully among these landscapes than Terry Marsh. A single philosophical fragment characterises this exploration: “…A patient and watchful eye, an attentive ear and the ability to stand still and let Lakeland come to you will reward even the least valiant of explorers…” There is a quality at work here, one seldom met amid screes of guidebooks. He cheerfully confesses to being a tree hugger, and that an affectionate pat for standing stones “makes me feel grounded”. Sixty years of Lakeland exploration are distilled here: the result is a mature work that fuses writing and photography into a single artform honouring one man’s sense of place. Wordsworth’s “universe of Nature’s fairest forms” has rarely been so admirably served. * Jim Crumley, author of Lakeland Wild and Seasons of Storm and Wonder *