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Cicerone Commit to More Sustainable Walking |
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Written by J Hoye
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
  Last week OFC correspondent Mark Richards participated in a small sojourn at Sam Read's bookshop in Grasmere to coincide with the official unveiling of the new Lakeland Pathfinder bus, and to promote his recently published Great Mountain Days in the Lake District.
Starting with Great Mountain Days in the Lake District, publishers Cicerone will be contributing a proportion of the book's profits to Fix the Fells, an organisation working with amongst others, the Lake District National Park Authority, The National Trust and Natural England to help repair, restore and rebuild eroded paths. This initiative by Cicerone is fantastic. Fix the Fells can restore the Lakeland landscape from the impact of millions of fell goers - but only with funding and publicity. Cicerone is helping with both.
Richard Fox, Fix the Fells Project Officer
| The Lakeland Fellranger series of titles being re-launched in September are also destined to help in the same way, thus helping to offset at least some of the harm done by many passing feet. Are Cicerone the first publishers to make such a commitment? Maybe, maybe not... but let's hope that their example is followed by other publishers looking to put something back into fellwalking. |
Some pictures from the day
Visit Mark's OFC Correspondent page or visit Mark's website. Our review of Great Mountain Days in the Lake District is now published, and there is a special offer for OFC members. |
| HAVE YOU SEEN? |
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Scratch & Co. The Great Cat Expedition, known latterly to only the keenest Lake District and Wainwright aficionados, is now available once again for readers to enjoy. For years the rare, classic mountaineering novel was only appreciated by those with enough spare funds, with some copies exchanging hands for several hundred pounds.
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 Having a brand is the new buzz word and I am afraid that AW has become a brand. Sadly, and I am sure he would hate this, when people mention AW in fellwalking circles, their ears prick up. Of course AW is to be admired, but when people start to abuse this name many years after his death I begin to feel that they might just have lost the plot. Although for anyone unfamiliar to AW, this book might be useful, however to most of us I think that investment in a very large barge pole will be the order. I don't want to slate the company that saved the Wainwright guides but come on Frances Lincoln, let's have some originality if you are going to use the great fellwalker's name to sell a book! |
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