The Pennines

Backbone of England

Photographer Helen Shaw takes you on a  fascinating journey celebrating the Pennines, that magnificent range of hills and moors which make up the backbone of England.
  
The book covers the length of the Pennines, from south to north. It will enhance anyone’s pleasure in this sometimes over-looked area by recommending the best viewpoints, walks or longer hikes, beautiful villages, bleak and dramatic hill-tops, caves, astonishing features, tourist attractions and lonely crags, breathtaking waterfalls and countless rivers which run to the west and east of the Pennines watershed.

This book will make anyone who lives in or near the Pennines proud of this English range which has so affected the landscape and lives of its residents. And it will entice many tourists to explore this area further.

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Illustrations:
200 Colour photographs

Pages:
192

Published:
Sep 05, 2019

ISBN:
9781910723951

About the Author:

Helen Shaw lives in the North Pennines on a remote hillside south of Garrigill, Cumbria.

Her photographs have featured in The Times, Manchester Evening News, This England, Cumbria Life, Westmoreland Gazette, The Scots magazine, Northern Life, and countless other magazines and newspapers all across northern England. Her photographic
books have earned her a strong following: The Forest of Bowland, Land’s End to John O’Groats, The Pennines, String of Pearls (Lake District), The North Pennines is her fifth book of landscape photography and her first one focussing entirely on her home of the North Pennines.

A keen walker and lover of wild and lonely places, she is married to Bob Shelmerdine who shares her passion for the outdoors.