The companion volume to No. 5 in the aeries (The Big Lakes of Lakeland) covering the smaller lakes and tarns of the district – a study of the nearly 2000 small freshwater features of the Lakeland landscape. Describes the small valley lakes, cirque tarns, tarns produced by ice scouring, tarns of the high fells, natural dams, peat tarns, tarns on limestone, lowland tarns, and tarns along the coast.