Millican Dalton: A Search For Romance & Freedom By M D Entwistle (signed Copy By Author)
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Millican Dalton: A Search for Romance & Freedom by M D Entwistle (Signed Copy by Author) Essex and mountains might seem an unlikely combination, but they come together in the extraordinary figure of Millican Dalton. Widely dubbed the Caveman of Borrowdale, he was a former insurance clerk who made a peculiar life-journey to become an enduring legend of the English Lake District. In the second edition of this well established biography, author M. D. Entwistle examines the life of a self styled Professor of Adventure who quit a stifling job in the City of London to fulfil his dream of becoming one with Mother Nature. Once he took the plunge a lifetime in the great outdoors ensued, thereafter spending the remainder of his days sleeping under rock outcrops and bivouacs; or in tents, caves, and forest huts, with only the "basic necessities of life," seemingly content to exchange his bed for a cold, hard slab of stone, and his kitchen for a campfire. He seemed as much a part of Lakeland as the rocks themselves. Dalton's bearded, craggy face, topped by a battered Tyrolean hat, grew increasingly to look like a landslide on one of the fells. His distinctive homemade clothes and gangling figure meant that he was instantly recognisable, and he became one of the 'sights' of Keswick. Socialist, pacifist, vegetarian and teetotal, he grew his own food and was at the forefront of recycling, furnishing his life with whatever he could scavenge from the local tip. His tutelage specialised in mountaineering, rafting, campcraft and ghyll scrambling, but also included self-development and alternative thinking--he shifted social boundaries by promoting women as equals and simultaneously quashed the gender-gap in outdoor pursuits--an act which was unheard of at the time. Meanwhile the years and the decades flowed by, but Dalton's uncompromising lifestyle remained unaffected, comfortably transcending decades of self-inflicted hardship. Even with the advance of old age he continued to camp out in all weathers, until his final demise in the Arctic conditions of 1947 when life within his cotton tent became too hard to bide.
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