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. AUTHOR: 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 previous 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).This is her fifth book of landscape photography and her first one focussing 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.
