Waterfalls of England, The

Reviewed by Dean Goss

This is a Guidebook first and foremost. There is a great deal of practical information and the book averages better than 2 photos per page, but the photos are black and white half tone dither print. The quality of the photos is of little importance, this book is RICH in information.

The author visited all but one of the 243 entries listed in the book. 150 of these warranted detailed summaries including a thumbnail map, a text description, a photograph, and a "factbox" detailing the ordnance map sheet grid reference, nearest town, difficulty of access, and the direction in which the falls are oriented. This information is helpful to would-be explorers as well as photographers. The remaining 93 waterfalls have the factbox information and are listed in an appendix. As something of a bonus, several of the waterfall entries comprise more than one waterfall.

The Bottom Line: This book is a guide book rather than a glossy paged book of photographs. While it lacks the polish of some of the books, it is crammed full of data, useful to both the casual waterfall enthusiast, or the hard core waterfall data miner such as myself.