David Howe
David Howe OBE is a retired academic who has studied both Earth sciences social sciences. He has written books on psychology, relationships and social work. His passions include walking, popular science, and writing. He is the author of two previous non-fiction books, including Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance: The Landscape, History and People of the Lake Districtย andย Extraction to Extinction.
Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance
The Landscape, History and People of the Lake District
by David Howe
David Howe tells the story of the Lake District, Englandโs most dramatic landscape. Home to vistas of stunning beauty and a rich heritage, it is an area of England that fascinates, inspires โ and has bewitched David for a lifetime.ย
With passion and an endless curiosity, he reveals how half a billion years of shifting ice, violent volcanoes and (of course) falling rain have shaped the lakes and fells that have fired the imaginations of the great sons and daughters of the area, the poets and the scientists. He shows that Lakeland is a seamless web where lives and landscape weave together, where the ancient countryside has created a unique local history: of farming and mining, of tightknit communities, of a resilient and proud people.ย
The Lake District is a place of rocks and rain, reason and romance, wonder and curiosity. And this book celebrates it all: the very character of Cumbria.ย
REVIEWS OF Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance
"Chapters on mountains, ice and lakes, on farming and national parks and Wainwright โฆ set against Cumbriaโs wider cultural importance โฆ very accessible โฆ [yet] holds a considerable weight of authority." Country Life
"Interesting โฆ links the landscape with the scientists, the Romantic poets and other notable residents [of the Lake District] โฆ forensic details of the geology and geomorphology of the Lakes โฆ detailed biographies on the lives and loves of the Romantic poets." BBC Countryfile Magazine
"An ambitious and enjoyable biography of a landscape." Cumbria Life, Book of the Month
"Affectionately written โฆ a ramble through the Lake District โฆ elegiac โฆ a reflection on the transience of life and beauty." Workington Times and Star
