The North Pennines England's Last Wilderness - A Photographic Celebration

About this book

Wherever you go in this area, the North Pennines in northern England will deliver unexpected delights and landscapes that surprise you. You will find world class Roman remains, striking industrial and mining archaeology, unspoilt, lonely moors which are home to rare and beautiful flora and fauna, some of Britain's finest rivers and waterfalls and beautiful little towns and villages nestled among high fells.

Often overlooked by tourists, the North Pennines is properly celebrated here in a stunning collection of images by local photographer and author Helen Shaw. Hadrian's Wall, wild moorlands, gushing springs, torrential waterfalls, forgotten villages and burial sites, black grouse, curlews and vivid gentians.

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Biography

Helen Shaw lives in the North Pennines on a remote hillside south of Garrigill, Cumbria. Her photographs have featured in The Times, Manchester Evening News, This England, Cumbria Life, Westmoreland Gazette, The Scots magazine, Northern Life, and countless other magazines and newspapers all across northern England. Her photographic books have earned her a strong following: The Forest of Bowland, Land's End to John O'Groats, The Pennines, String of Pearls (Lake District).

The North Pennines is her fifth book of landscape photography and her first one focusing entirely on her home of the North Pennines. A keen walker and lover of wild and lonely places, she is married to Bob Shelmerdine, who shares her passion for the outdoors.