Source : Times of India
The Wainwright Prize is a UK based award for books that celebrate the outdoors. It is named for Alfred Wainwright, a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator who wrote a seven-volumePictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. It has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District.
The award is given to books “which best reflects Wainwright’s core values of Great British writing & culture and a celebration of the outdoors”. Authors from any country may submit their books but they must be related to nature, the outdoors or “travel writing (not guidebooks) covering Great Britain.”
The Longlist for the 2018 Prize was just announced on 5th June and consists of:
21st Century Yokel by Tom Cox
Hidden Nature by Alys Fowler
Outskirts by John Grindrod
Islander by Patrick Barkham
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young
Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington
The Dun Cow Rib by John Lister-Kaye
The Last Wilderness by Neil Ansell
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson
The Wood by John Lewis-Stempel
