BIRKETT Bill

Lakeland's Greatest Pioneers One Hundred Years of Rock Climbing

Robert Hale, 1983. 0709005377. 1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered dark blue cloth (top edge slightly dust stained, lightly bumped at tail of spine, fore edge a little spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. 192, illus with b&w plates and line drawings (no inscriptions). .

Rothwell & Dunworth LtdProfessional seller

Book number: 144723

Catalogue: Mountaineering

Keywords: Mountaineering

BIRKETT, BILL

Classic Rock Climbs in Southern England

Yeovil, Somerset, Oxford Illustrated Press. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 1855092093) Hard Cover, 10 x 8.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 136pp. Fine/No Jacket.

Godley BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 007184

Catalogue: Mountaineering / Caving

Keywords: Mountaineering, Climbing, 1855092093

BIRKETT, Bill

Complete Lakeland Fells. Over 120 Classic Walks to all Fell Tops.

Collins Willow - Harper Collins 2000, 288pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 26x22cm. 1,3kg. In very good condition.

Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile KerssemakersProfessional seller

Book number: 64873

BIRKETT, BILL

Exploring the Lakes & Low Fells : Vol 1 : 40 Easier Circular Walks in the Lake District

Newton Abbott, David & Charles. 2001. (ISBN: 0715310771) Hard Cover, 8.5 x 6 inches. Book in 'as new' unused condition. Unpaginated. pp. Forty easier circular walks in the Lake District. Fine/No Jacket.

Godley BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 011534

Catalogue: Walking / Rambling / Cycling

Keywords: Walking, Cumbria. Rambling, Lake District 0715310771

BIRKETT, BILL

Great British Ridge Walks

Newton Abbott, David & Charles. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0715307959) Hard Cover, 10.5 x 9.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to lower front corner. 192pp. Featuring Snowdonia, the Lake District and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, this book covers fifty ridge walks. Fine/Near Fine.

Godley BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 027347

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Mountains, Climbing, Walking, Mountaineering / Caving Walking / Rambling / Cycling 0715307959

BIRKETT, BILL

The Hillwalker's Manual

Milnthorpe, Cumbria, Cicerone Press. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 1852841117) Soft Cover, 8.25 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 144pp. A practical reference work for any walker or climber which looks at all aspects from weather to navigation, equipment to survival, nature to photography. Illustrated. Near Fine.

Godley BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 027316

Catalogue: Walking / Rambling / Cycling

Keywords: Walking, Mountains, Safety Health / Exercise / Fitness 1852841117

Birkett, Bill

Lakeland's Greatest Pioneers: One Hundred Years of Rock Climbing

Robert Hale Ltd, 1983. Soft Cover. p192p illustrated. Fine unmarked copy in like unclipped d/w with author's signature on title page. See scans. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall (ISBN: 0709005377).. Fine

Creaking Shelves BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 007103

Keywords: 0709005377

BIRKETT, Bill and others

Rock climbing in the Lake District

Constable, 1987. Used - Very Good. VG in flexicover . 4th edition, revised, 1990. Owner's name on front free end paper; binding tight Photo:. ISBN: 0094676402

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Book number: BOOKS209628I

BIRKETT, Bill

Scafell. Portrait of a Mountain

Frances Lincoln 2007, 167pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In very good condition. After three volumes in his prize-winning valley portraits, Bill Birkett turns his gaze to the highest and most powerful group of mountains in England. Glimpsed from afar, Scafell presents an impressive wave of naked rock, sharp ridge and steep crag, soaring above hanging coves and deep valleys. Rise to these heights and you are walking on the roof of England. In 1802 Coleridge rested from his daring exploits at the summit to write 'surely the first Letter ever written from the top of Sca' Fell!' Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes was a bestseller in 1810, and the first recorded rock climb on Scafell - Broadstand, by Edward Birkett of Keswick - took place five years later. By the mid 19th century, the railways were opening up this remote region to lovers of the romantic and sublime. Intrepid travellers set out to explore it on foot and horseback. In the 1880s the Keswick-based Abraham Brothers began their superb series of black-and-white photographic portraits, which have had an unparalleled influence on perceptions of the English landscape. Bill Birkett's portrait takes us into the heart of the Scafell range, offering a unique view of the moods of the mountain.

Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile KerssemakersProfessional seller

Book number: 66142

BIRKETT, BILL

A Year in the Life of the Langdale Valleys (Signed By Author)

London, Frances Lincoln Ltd. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 0711224498) Hard Cover, 10.75 x 10.25 Inches. Ill.: Bill Birkett. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor rubbing to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight traces of storage. 112pp. An account in words and spectacular photographs by local man Bill Birkett of the Lake District's Langdale Valleys during the course of twelve months. Fine/Fine.

Godley BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 027344

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Lake District, Cumbria, Valleys, Mountains Nature 0711224498 Bill Birkett

BIRKETT, Bill

A Year in the Life of Buttermere.

Francis Lincoln 2009, 112pp. Illustrated.27,5x26cm. Cloth. Dust jacket with some light signs of use, else in very good condition. "This photographic essay, the fourth Lake District volume in Bill Birkett's prize-winning and widely praised valley portraits, captures all the facets of the delightful Buttermere Valley throughout the seasons, from the ever-changing mood of its lakes and tarns to its inspirational high fells. The pure influences of lake and mountain are dominant, and the changing combinations of light magnify form and scale here as nowhere else. The narrow valley of Buttermere, the 'secret valley', lies squeezed deep in the mountains towards the north-west fringes of Cumbria. With its lakes - Buttermere, Crummock Water and Loweswater - and high surround of peaks it is rightly regarded as one of the most awe-inspiring and dramatic of the Lakeland dales. Steeped in myth and legend, protected by the high mountain passes of Honister, Newlands Hause and Whinlatter, it remains an intriguing oasis of quiet and calm. Its many fine waterfalls include Scale Force, which has the longest vertical drop in the region; there is wonderful walking over the tops and by the lake shore, and an array of magnificent crags invites climbers to seek their thrills and challenges. Mary Robinson, the 'Maid of Buttermere' and reputedly the beauty of the late eighteenth century, may be long gone, but there is more than enough natural beauty on which to feast the eye. Of all the Lakeland places he knew so well, Buttermere was especially dear to the great fell-walker Alfred Wainwright his ashes are scattered there, beside the shore of Innominate Tarn high on the rugged top of Haystacks, and he is commemorated in a plaque in the blood-red granite church of St James above Buttermere village.".

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Book number: 64902

BIRKETT, Bill

A Year in the Life of Borrowdale.

Frances Lincoln Publishers 2005, 112pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Dust jacket with signs of use. Book in good condition. "For his third title in the stunning A Year in the Life of...series, noted climber, photographer and writer Bill Birkett turns his attention to another Lake District landscape, one of the most enchanting in Britain sylvan Borrowdale, which stretches from the high fells of Esk Pike and Great Gable down to Lake Derwentwater. Seasonal changes are more marked here than anywhere else in Britain. In spring, violets and anemones fill the woods; summer is a thousand shades of green while autumn's colours are shot through with golden beech trees and rusty bracken. Hill farmers and sheepdogs tend the native Herdwick sheep. Stone cottages and farms occupy the dale and stonewalls span hillside and valley. Fell-runners and hill-walkers explore the heights, while below them local life continues much as it has done for centuries. Born and brought up in the Lake District himself, Bill Birkett captures the nooks and crannies, the woods, watercourses and mountains of this much-loved Lake District scenery like nobody else.".

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Book number: 65009

BIRKETT, Bill

A Year in the Life of the Langdale Valleys (signed copy)

Frances Lincoln 2004, 112pp. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In good condition. Probably the best known and best loved of all Lakeland valleys is caught through the seasons in a series of photographs by noted climber, photographer and writer Bill Birkett. Over a hundred images, ranging from the grandeur of the great mountains surrounding the valley through the more mundane activities of the local farmers to the details of the spectacular prehistoric carvings and artefacts which are still extant, trace and record the subtle interplay of man and nature which characterise the peculiar beauty of the Lake District. This is an irresistible gift book for those who know and love the area.

Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile KerssemakersProfessional seller

Book number: 66130

BIRKETT, Bill

A Year in the Life of Snowdonia

Frances Lincoln 2009, 112pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In very good condition. A photographic essay by prize-winning author and photographer Bill Birkett portraying Snowdonia throughout the seasons, with text in English and Welsh.

Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile KerssemakersProfessional seller

Book number: 66135

Birkett, Bill

A Year in the Life of the Duddon Valley *SIGNED*

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 2006; Frances Lincoln Limited; 112pp.; Foxed on verso dust jacket. -- Conditie: Goed; Original boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, richly illusrated with colour photographs, 4to.; Engels; ISBN10: 0711226377, ISBN13: 9780711226371

Klondyke BVProfessional seller

Book number: 318570-KN12

Catalogue: Natuur/Algemeen

Keywords: Algemeen Natuur