Pennine Way - Further Reading

Further Reading

The Pennine Way has attracted a number of writers over the years, including Stephenson himself, who wrote the first official guidebook. A popular guide was authored and illustrated by the writer Alfred Wainwright, whose offer to buy a half-pint of beer for anyone who finished the Pennine Way is estimated to have cost him up to £15,000 by his death in 1991. The National Trail Guide contains a description of the route, GPS waypoints and 1:25000 maps of the entire walk. Barry Pilton's book gives a more lighthearted and personal account of completing the Pennine Way, with a foreword by Mike Harding. Mark Wallington's book Pennine Walkies (in which the author is accompanied by his dog) is another humorous personal story of the walk, as is Walking Home by Yorkshire poet Simon Armitage, who walked north-to-south along the Pennine Way without money, relying on his 'earnings' from nightly poetry readings along the way. Movement artists Tamara Ashley and Simone Kenyon performed the entire length of the trail in August 2006; their book documents the performance and invites readers to create their own interpretations of the landscapes along the way.

  • Armitage, Simon (2012). Walking Home. Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-24988-6.
  • Ashley, Tamara; Simone Kenyon (2007). The Pennine Way: The Legs that Make Us. Brief Magnetics. ISBN 0-9549073-1-0.
  • Collins, Martin (2003). The Pennine Way. Cicerone. ISBN 978-1-85284-386-1.
  • De La Billiere, Edward; Carter, Keith; Scott, Chris (2011). Manthorpe, Jim. ed. Pennine Way: Edale to Kirk Yetholm (3 ed.). Trailblazer. ISBN 978-1-905864-34-8.
  • Hall, Damian (2012). Pennine Way. National Trail Guides. Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1-84513-718-2.
  • Pilton, Barry (1988). One Man and His Bog. Corgi Books. ISBN 0-552-12796-5.
  • Poucher, W.A. (1946). The Backbone of England. A photographic and descriptive guide to the Pennine range from Derbyshire to Durham. Billing and Sons Limited.
  • Pulk, Richard (2007). Rambles of a Pennine Way-ster. Touchline. ISBN 978-0-9536646-2-7.
  • Stephenson, Tom (1980). The Pennine Way. HM Stationery Office. ISBN 0-11-700903-2.
  • Wainwright, Alfred (2004). Pennine Way Companion. Frances Lincoln Publishers. ISBN 0-7112-2235-5.
  • Wallington, Mark (1997). Pennine Walkies: Boogie Up the Pennine Way. Arrow Books. ISBN 0-09-966141-1.
  • Wood, John (1947). Mountain Trail: The Pennine Way from the Peak to the Cheviots. Blackfriars Press.

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