In 2017 the English Lake District was awarded World
Heritage status by UNESCO as a "cultural landscape" of global significance; a landscape
gifted by Nature and modified by the activities of humankind to create a very
distinctive and special place.The famous English landscape painter John Constable once
said "We see nothing truly until we understand it". This suggests that gaining
some understanding of why Lake District landscapes look as beautiful as they do
will enable us see them more clearly and have our enjoyment of them enriched.



To provide a beginning to this understanding is what
this book is all about. Readers are taken to 22 prominent viewpoints around
the World Heritage Site, all with an historical, Norse-derived name of 'how' or
'knott'. Then, whether sitting on a rock at the viewpoint or sitting in
an armchair at home (with an online panorama to assist), the guide relates the
historical story of the view - how the key features came about and how they may change in the future in response to new
environmental challenges.



After reading this
book, readers will have enjoyed the beauties and story of the Lake District's
acclaimed landscapes, and quite probably will not look at them again in quite
the same way.