Abstract
THOSE who know and love the Lake District will like this book: those who do not know the former can learn to love it through the latter. The text is obviously from the pen of one who has learned to love his native Lakeland. He describes the past and the present of a gem of English scenery in a style so facile and clear that the reader is transported as in a dream through crags and fells that alas have never been seen by many. He pays justifiable tribute to a region of great natural beauty and leaves the reader with a longing to down tools and indulge in the dream he has created. The dream, too, often amounts almost to reality through the beautiful illustrations which adorn the text. There are sixteen plates in colour and thirty-six plates in monochrome which have been executed by the author. These pictures make the book.
The Hills of Lakeland
By W. Heaton Cooper. Pp. xviii + 126 + 52 plates. (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 15s. net.
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The Hills of Lakeland. Nature 143, 498 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143498b0
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