Jim Reid

Biography

Jim Reid lives on the northern fringe of the Lake District. An outdoors enthusiast, he will avoid any office tasks given the slightest opportunity to head for the hills. Educated at Newcastle and Lancaster universities, he has made a living variously and precariously as an ecologist, school teacher, youth hostel warden, restaurateur and landscape gardener. When the writing bug takes over, subjects close to his heart are travel, food, nature and hillwalking.

Two years in the making, the Tour of the Lake District was written and researched while running a Lakeland youth hostel. All the routes have been carefully chosen and walked, the author muttering into a Dictaphone to ensure descriptions are accurate when written up in the evening. The photographs were taken using an old Leica 35mm camera with Summicron lenses, generally on Velvia film.