In a distinguished writing career lasting more than seventy years Harry Griffin reflected on and documented the landscape, history and people of his beloved Lake District. To mark his centenary year in 2011 this is a new selection of his previously uncollected writings on the mountains, on climbing and on the social history of the Lakes. It also includes passages from Music and Mountains, his unfinished and final manuscript which records both his experience as music critic of the Daily Mail in Manchester before and after the war where he met and heard many celebrated musicians and, more personally, recounts the importance of his own daily struggles with performance. It includes notes from his personal diaries of some of his fellwalking routes in Cumbria.
If you haven't read any of Harry's books before then you should rush out and buy it. Not just for the depths of harry's knowledge, but more for the joy of reading something so simple, so precise and factual, but which still manages to express how most of us feel about the Lake District.
- TGO: The Great Outdoors
Has there ever been a better recorder of Lakeland's moods and life's little journeys onto the high fells than Griffin? His well-crafted words brought a breath of fresh air and sanity to all the second half of the last century, his knowledge of the fells and crags unribvalled and his enthusiasm undimmed.... This Heritage Collection marks the centenary of this Barrow boy, whose writing reads as fresh today as when it was first committed to paper.
- Cumbria
Written in Harry's concise and fluent journalistic style this book packs loads of fascinating tale-telling into a remarkably short 256 pages.
- Keswick Reminder
A fitting memorial to a craftsman whose reputation deserves to be preserved.
- This England
Forms a fitting memorial to a craftsman whose reputation deserves to be preserved.
- This England
Publication Details:
Binding: Hardback, 256 pages ISBN: 9780711231795 Format: 198mm x 129mm
16 page black and white insert
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