I AGREE wholeheartedly with Simon Entwistle's comments (Letters, October 15) regarding Blackburn-born author and fell-walker Alfred Wainwright.
I would even go one step further and describe "AW" as a veritable genius -- a word I don't use lightly.
My wife and I completed the 214 "Wainwrights" (principal fells of the Lake District) last year, thanks mainly to the help of the pictorial guides which he wrote between 1952-65.
The sketches he drew are indeed magnificent and the prose would do William Wordsworth himself proud.
Whilst reading any of his books you can find yourself in between bursts of laughter or having an emotional tear in the eye.
Obviously, the Antiques Roadshow's book "expert" who said he had never heard of "AW" had never experienced the joy of fellwalking.
ERIC BRAYSFORD, Buttermere Drive, Oswaldtwistle.
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