The Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District (Photography) by William Arthur Poucher - 1984

London: Constable. Very Good/Very Good. 1984. Hard Cover. Sm 4to. 25.4 x 18.8 x 2.6 cm 0094655502 Dust jacket nick to front, unclipped, slight fading of spine. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Colour photographs. 208 pages clean and tight. Walter Poucher has been climbing and photographing mountains for nearly half a century, and is Britain's most famous and most prolific mountain photographer, with some thirty-four books and many thousands of photographs in book form to his credit. This is the fifth in his best-selling series of books illustrating Britain's peaks-Scotland, Wales, The Lake I)istrfct and The Highlands of Scotland. Though he has worked extensively in the Dolomites and the Rockies, both American and Canadian, and has published a volume of photographs of the Alps, it is his native hills and dales which Poucher loves best and to which he returns again and again. In this book, Poucher revels in the contrasts that make the British landscape so rewarding for both climber and photographer. The Yorkshire Dales embrace both the dizzy limestone precipices of Malham Cove and the most secluded and tranquil of dales. The Peak District, on the other hand, is more dramatic and austere, with its lonely moors and its breath-taking vertical Edges, some of them stretching for miles, to challenge rock climbers. The eternal rocks, crags and vistas change their moods under the cloud and sunshine of an English sky, and Poucher, with the patience of an artist, has often waited for days to capture the light on a cliff-face at the perfect moment. The splendid pictures are arranged, with their captions, in a sequence from south to north - from Dovedale to Hadrian's Wall - that may easily be followed by visitors in a car; or by those on foot. .