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JOSS
Keith Richardson's biography of the legendary Lake District fell runner and shepherd Joss Naylor. The book contains spectacular colour photography by Val Corbett, as well as evocative black and white images from Joss's childhood and his early days as a runner
The book takes you into Joss's world and it is a fascinating place to be. Chapters are devoted to Joss and his working dogs, to the time that he spends in Spain and to the tradition of dry stonewalling which he has transformed into an art form.
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JOSS
Keith Richardson, in this remarkably insightful book, and in his extensive
interviews with Naylor, has uncovered uncomfortable elements in a tough
upbringing. But life in the remoter valleys was raw in a way that today's
young people would find intolerable. It made them or it broke them. In Joss
Naylor's case it coloured the man he became; single minded, determined, with
no side to him and inherently a decent and dignified man who has brought
nothing but honour to his sport.
Ross Brewster - writer and former fell runner
IVVER SEN
In this fine, evocative book Keith Richardson puts figures in
the Lake District landscape, figures that may reach for their pitchfork at
the very mention of culture; but characters, faces that carry
in their grain the Lake District's DNA.
Eric Robson - writer and broadcaster