Chris Jesty (born 1942) is a British author and cartographer who revised

Alfred Wainwright Alfred Wainwright Order of the British Empire, MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991), who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright or A.W., was a British fellwalking, fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume ''Pictorial ...

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Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ''A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'' is a series of seven books by A. Wainwright, detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the Lake District in northwest England. Written over a period of 13 years from 1952, they ...

'' to produce the second edition (2005–2009) of the books, which were originally published in 1955–1966. He used

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to survey all the routes and the work involved 3,000 hand-drawn changes in the first volume alone, reflecting changes such as walls having fallen down or a quarry being opened on the line of a footpath, and adding information such as car parking. Jesty had earlier lived in

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, north Wales, and in the 1970s produced and published a panorama of the view from

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, available as a single sheet or in four sections. In 1978 he published a panorama of the view from

Scafell Pike Scafell Pike () is a mountain in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England. It has an elevation of above sea level, making it the highest and the most prominent mountain in England. The mountain is part of the Scafell massif, an extinct v ...

with illustrations by Wainwright. He then moved to

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in Dorset, where he wrote several books about that area before moving to

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in Cumbria. In 1979, he wrote to Wainwright offering to update the guides, but Wainwright replied that he did not want this done in his lifetime. In 1989, Wainwright agree that Jesty could update the guides, but after his death in 1991, when Jesty had worked on the project for 18 months, the guides were sold to Michael Joseph publishers who were not interested in the updates. Some time later the guides were transferred to

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and the decision was made to produce new editions, not only of the ''Pictorial Guide'' but also of several of Wainwright's other walking guides. The last two of these were published in April 2014. The publishers have announced that Clive Hutchby is working on the third edition of the ''Pictorial Guide'', with the first volume, ''The Eastern Fells'' published in March 2015, followed by ''The Far Eastern Fells'' in October 2015.

Publications

Revised editions of Alfred Wainwright's works

All published by

. *''Pennine Way Companion'', revised edition, 2004 * ''

'', 7 vols, 2nd edition, 2005–2009 (boxed set – also available individually) *''Wainwright: The Podcasts Eight Lakeland Walks with Wainwright'', 2008 *''A Coast to Coast Walk'', 2nd edition, 2010 *''Wainwright's TV Walks'', 2nd edition, 2010 *''The Best of Wainwright'', edited by

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, 2nd edition, * ''

The Outlying Fells of Lakeland ''The Outlying Fells of Lakeland'' is a 1974 book written by Alfred Wainwright dealing with hills in and around the Lake District of England. It differs from Wainwright's ''Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Pictorial Guides'' in that each ...

'', 2nd edition, 2011 *''Pennine Way Companion'', 2nd edition, September 2012 *''Walks in Limestone Country: The Whernside, Ingleborough and Penyghent areas of Yorkshire'', 2nd edition, April 2014 *''Walks on the Howgill Fells: and Adjoining Fells '', 2nd edition, April 2014

Other works include

*''A Guide to the Isle of Purbeck'', Wimborne: Dovecote, 1984 *''Dorset Town Trails'', Wimborne: Roy Gasson, 1985 *''A Guide to the West Dorset Countryside'', Wimborne: Dovecote, 1986 *''East Anglian Town Trails'', London: Hale, 1989 *''Exploring Dorset by Car'', Wimborne: Dovecote, 1990 "Happy Memories" (autobiography), 2018

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