Learn all about Millican Dalton, the erstwhile insurance clerk who quit his job in the City of London to pursue his dreams and become a mountain guide.
Once he took the plunge a lifetime in the great outdoors ensued - living in tents, caves and huts for the remainder of his days with only the basic necessities of life for comfort.
Millican Dalton was a man well ahead of his time, he dropped out way before the term was even coined. The pacifist, vegetarian, teetotaler and socialist made his own clothes and grew his own food. His tutelage covered not only mountaineering, rafting, camp craft and ghyll scrambling, but also self development and alternative thinking. Meanwhile he shifted social boundaries promoting women as equals, an act which was unheard of at the time.
Such was his conviction to his dreams he transcended decades of self inflicted hardship, and never once waned, proving the point that he had managed to find the romance and freedom he was searching for.
This book takes a glimpse into the peculiar world of a Lake District legend, and highlights that up until the mid 20th century it was still possible to live the life of a modern-day caveman in rural England.
Once he took the plunge a lifetime in the great outdoors ensued - living in tents, caves and huts for the remainder of his days with only the basic necessities of life for comfort.
Millican Dalton was a man well ahead of his time, he dropped out way before the term was even coined. The pacifist, vegetarian, teetotaler and socialist made his own clothes and grew his own food. His tutelage covered not only mountaineering, rafting, camp craft and ghyll scrambling, but also self development and alternative thinking. Meanwhile he shifted social boundaries promoting women as equals, an act which was unheard of at the time.
Such was his conviction to his dreams he transcended decades of self inflicted hardship, and never once waned, proving the point that he had managed to find the romance and freedom he was searching for.
This book takes a glimpse into the peculiar world of a Lake District legend, and highlights that up until the mid 20th century it was still possible to live the life of a modern-day caveman in rural England.
