ROCKS AND RAIN REASON AND ROMANCE (LAKE DISTRICT)

A wide-ranging account of the nature, geology, history, people, landscape and culture of the Lake District. The book reveals how half a billion years of shifting ice, violent volcanoes and (of course) falling rain have shaped the lakes and fells that have fired the imaginations of the great sons and daughters of the area, the poets and the scientists and it shows that Lakeland is a seamless web where lives and landscape weave together, where the ancient countryside has created a unique local history: of farming and mining, of tightknit communities, of a resilient and proud people.