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Photographing the Lake District (second edition) is a visitor and photo-location guidebook, and a beautiful visual record of the UNESCO World Heritage site. Perfect to plan your trip from home and to take with you on your trip. After 15,000 copies of his first edition were sold, Stuart Holmes has extensively updated his visitor and a photo-location guidebook. It now features over 100 location chapters (up from 70) that describe the most beautiful places in the Lake District to visit, covered over 528 pages with over 800 stunning photographs to enjoy. The majority of locations involve short walks or are roadside, including many wheelchair accessible places, and in this second edition, for the energetic, nine, scenic, high mountain walks are described. Being born and bred in the Lake District, and taking photographs since a young age, Stuart guides you to all the classic locations and many less familiar locations off the beaten track and away from the crowds. Covered are lakes, tarns, jetties, bridges, valleys, waterfalls, woodlands, villages, cottages and farmhouses, grand panoramic viewpoints, shows and events, historic houses, castles and gardens. This edition also includes two outliers, St Bees Head on the west coast and the Appleby Horse Fair. Detailed OS maps featuring the locations (and the best pubs), written directions and smart phone usuable

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From Scafell’s towering volcanic crags to the deep lake-filled glacial valleys of Wasdale and Buttermere, the Lake District possesses an extraordinary variety of scenery in a relatively small area. This dramatic landscape has inspired writers, climbers, painters, and all who seek the solitude and beauty of the high fells – and wish to understand the forces that have shaped this unique place. With over 230 illustrations including maps and superb photographs with unique aerial views and panoramas, it includes: easy-to-understand explanations of how the rocks formed; how the geology affects the landscape and an exploration of the long human story of Lakeland landscapes. There are guided excursions to seven easily accessible geological locations and a dedicated website, with a Google Earth photographic guide to all the main localities mentioned in the book: lakedistrictgeology.co.uk This book will enable you to ‘read’ the landscape, understand how the region’s rocks were formed, how glaciers and rivers sculpted the fells and valleys, and how human interaction with geology and climate has helped to create the Lake District today.

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Have you seen lightning? What about hail? Find out how to keep safe in stormy weather in Safe in a Storm. The fiction book that accompanies this title is The Lightning Key. Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper is a series of paired fiction and non-fiction books linked by curriculum-related topics. Each pair consists of an engaging story featuring well-loved characters and a compelling non-fiction book. These topic-linked pairings will develop and deepen their reading comprehension and foster a love of reading across both text types. This book is one of six titles at Oxford Level 7, which are phonically decodable featuring vocabulary to enrich the texts and support language development. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it is easy to match every child with the right book and enable them to progress.

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