This is a moving and remarkable digest of one man's long and varied life and a chronicle of a landscape and a community - the English Lake District - over the decades.
Harry Griffin's 'Country Diary' column for the Guardian was one of the longest-running regular features in the British media, running uninterrupted for some 52 years until his death in 2004.
Martin Wainwright, who knew Griffin well, has selected 150 of his best columns to make both a moving and remarkable digest of one man's long and varied life and a matchless chronicle of a landscape and a community - the English Lake District - over the decades.
Harry Griffin was an outdoor man: a climber, a walker, a wanderer, and this book will appeal to anyone who loves the wild parts of the British landscape. It is also a fascinating social history of rural life, vanished and present, from solitary hill shepherds to slate miners, mountain hares to mountain rescue teams.
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