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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Active outdoor pursuits > Walking, hiking, trekking
One of six books in the Yorkshire Dales: Top 10 Walks series. This
attractive and cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the
finest pub walks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in a popular
pocketable format. With clear information, an overview and
introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions,
Ordnance Survey maps, superb, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs,
and interpretation of points of interest along the way, these
guides set a new standard in clarity and ease-of-use. Featured
walks include: the White Lion Inn, Cray; Rose & Crown Inn,
Bainbridge; Buck Hotel, Reeth; New Inn, Clapham; George &
Dragon, Dent; Craven Arms, Appletreewick; Falcon Inn, Littondale;
Bolton Arms, Redmire; Buck Inn, Malham; Red Lion, Langthwaite.
The Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge is on many people's bucket list, an
achievable (but difficult) walk in an accessible part of the
country. The fact the area is stunningly beautiful helps! The 3
Peaks book offers a detailed step by step description of the 3
Peaks route. However, there is much more to it than that: - Full
colour photography throughout - A description of alternative routes
up each mountain - History and Geology of this unique and
fascinating area - Sections on Fell Running, Caving and Biking
written by outside experts - The problems of managing the route,
written by Alan Hulme from the National Park - Beyond the 3 Peaks:
excellent alternative challenges for walkers in the Dales Nearly
100,000 people take on the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge every year.
Most succeed but many do not. The walk takes place in some of the
most stunning countryside in the country. Not only does the
limestone scenery make the walk unique and attractive but the
industrial heritage makes it memorable. The book is much more than
a simple guide, it adds flavour and interest to the area and the
walk itself.
The definitive guidebook to the entire 3,000-mile length of the new
England Coast Path. For anyone planning a trip to the coast or a UK
summer holiday, the new England Coast Path national trail is a
hugely exciting prospect, and this guidebook shows you how to make
the most of every single glorious mile. Environmentalists,
volunteers, campaigners, land owners and politicians all came
together to create this 'ninth wonder of the world', and from the
opening of the path in 2020 onwards, anyone has been able to walk
and wild camp along the entire 3,000-mile length of the English
coast. It's a fantastic opportunity for all walkers, campers, fans
of the coast and the outdoors. Stephen Neale has spent many happy
months walking, camping and surveying the path, and from that
experience has written a fantastically detailed and rich guidebook
covering the route itself, along with everything from the best
places to swim, hunt for fossils and eat seafood to hidden away
beaches and canoeing spots. Fully updated for its second edition,
with 100 extra adventures from the newly opened sections of the
path and spectacular new aerial photography, the book is divided up
into the 16 coastal counties and features 1,100 places to see, camp
and explore around the coast. Each place has map coordinates and
basic directions from the path, allowing walkers to either visit
specific places or link highlights together, walking between them
along the path. The England Coast Path represents what makes
England so great: a little bit mad, a little bit proud, and the
lucky host to one of the most spectacular and wild coastlines in
the world. With this book you too can join the adventure.
Enjoy this comprehensive guide to hikes of varying difficulty
levels and lengths in the state of Nevada. Offering around eighty
hikes, Hiking Nevada takes you through the dramatic alpine peaks,
lush pine forests, shady redrock canyons, and shimmering desert
salt flats.
This pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion
to discovering what to do, what to see and how to get around
Croatia. It covers top attractions like Dubrovnik, Plitvice Lakes
National Park and Rab Town, as well as hidden gems, including
exploring the Roman amphitheatre in Pula, swimming in a lake in
stunning Mljet National Park and surveying the mosaics at the
Basilica of Euphrasius in Porec. This will save you time, and
enhance your exploration of this fascinating country. This title
has been fully updated post-COVID-19. This Mini Rough Guide to
Croatia covers: Zagreb, inland Croatia, Istria, Kvarner Gulf and
Dalmatia. In this travel guide you will find: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
EVERY TYPE OF TRAVELLER Experiences selected for every kind of trip
to Croatia, from cultural explorations to family activities in
child-friendly places. TOP TEN ATTRACTIONS Covers the destination's
top ten attractions not to miss and a Perfect Day/Tour itinerary
suggestions. COMPACT FORMAT Compact, concise, and packed with
essential information, with a sharp design and colour-coded
sections, this is the perfect on-the-move companion when you're
exploring Croatia. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS Includes an
insightful overview of landscape, history and culture. WHAT TO DO
Detailed description of entertainment, shopping, nightlife,
festivals and events, and children's activities. PRACTICAL MAPS
Handy colour maps on the inside cover flaps will help you find your
way around. PRACTICAL TRAVEL INFORMATION Practical information on
eating out, including a handy glossary and detailed restaurant
listings, as well as a comprehensive A-Z of travel tips on
everything from getting around to health and tourist information.
STRIKING PICTURES Inspirational colour photography throughout. FREE
EBOOK Free eBook download with every purchase of a printed book to
access all content from your phone or tablet for on-the-road
exploration.
Take a tour of ten national parks in this overview of the ways in
which they can be accessed by those with physical, sensory and
learning limitations and their companions. The National Parks of
the U.S. are some of the most sought-after travel destinations in
the world. But a visit to any one of them may seem daunting to
someone with hearing, seeing, or other physical challenges. What
many may not know is that the National Parks offer help to those
with access needs. Here, Simon Hayhoe takes readers on a tour of
ten National Parks and the accessibility options available to
visitors and their companions. He covers three regions of national
parks in the east, center and west of the US. The eastern parks
include Acadia National Park in Maine, the Everglades National Park
in Florida and the Gettysburg National Military Park in
Pennsylvania. The central parks include Grand Canyon National Park
in Arizona, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, Yellowstone
National Park, which is mostly in Wyoming and Zion National Park in
Utah. The western parks include Denali National Park in Alaska,
Olympic National Park in Washington State and Yosemite National
Park in California. Knowing how and where to tap into access points
is the first step on your journey. So come along, and let this work
guide you.
The Scottish Borders cover a vast area, stretching from the east
coast to rural Dumfriesshire and from the more populous Lothians to
the border with England. Although there are no very high mountains,
the Borders have always attracted walkers keen to explore the quiet
moorlands, rolling hills, ancient woodland and rugged coast, as
well as the romantic ruins of abbeys and castles, grand estates and
rich literary heritage of the area.Ancient native tribes and Roman
legions left their mark on this landscape, as did years of fierce
warfare with our southern neighbours and raiding by ruthless Border
Reivers. These 40 walks will introduce you to some of the
fascinating history which shaped this most intriguing, as well as
beautiful region.
This attractive and cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of
the finest walks to the ten most spectacular lighthouses in Wales
in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an overview
and introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered
directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, superb eye-grabbing
panoramic photographs, and interpretation of points of interest
along the way, these guides set a new standard in clarity and
ease-of-use.
One in the popular Top 10 Walks series of pocket-sized, full colour
walking guides written by the author of the Official Guide to the
Sandstone Trail. This attractive and cleverly structured guide
gives walkers ten of the best new short circular walks from
Cheshire's Sandstone Trail in a popular format. With clear
information, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, eye-grabbing
panoramic photographs, and interpretation of points of interest
along the way, these guides set a new standard in clarity and
ease-of-use. Featured walks include: Hillforts above the Mersey,
Around Blakemere, Over the Old Pale, Kelsborrow Castle, Cheshire's
twin castles, Around the Peckforton Hills, Pheasant Inn circuit,
Willow Hill & Sarra Lane, Rawhead circuit, and Around Bickerton
Hill.
Few historians have written about walking, despite its obvious
centrality to the human condition. Focusing on the period
1800-1914, this book examines the practices and meanings of walking
in the context of transformative modernity. It boldly suggests that
once historians place walking at the heart of their analyses,
exciting new perspectives on themes central to the 'long nineteenth
century' emerge. Walking Histories, 1800-1914 adopts a global
perspective, including contributions from specialists in the
history and culture of Great Britain, North America, Australia,
Russia, East-Central Europe, and South Asia. Critically engaging
with recent research, the contributions within offer fresh insights
for academic experts, while remaining accessible to student
readers. This book will be essential reading for those interested
in movement, travel, leisure, urban history, and environmental
history.
A comprehensive guidebook detailing walks in Germany's Bavarian
Alps. Lying along the German-Austrian border in a thin sliver of
land roughly 300km long, this area contains some of the most
spectacular walking and beautiful scenery that Germany has to
offer. 70 graded walks explore mountain landscapes, wild mountain
gorges and alpine meadows as well as the region's picturesque
villages, opulent baroque churches and fairy-tale castles like
Neuschwanstein. There is also the northernmost glacier in the Alps
(Blaueis), Germany's largest ice cave (Schellenberg) and its
highest mountain, the Zugspitze, all visited on walks described in
this guide. The walks are divided into six mountain areas, grouped
around base towns to make planning a walking holiday as easy as
possible. Bases include Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Mittenwald, Marquartstein, Inzell, Oberammergau and Ramsau among
others. The walks are mainly between 3 and 8 hours in duration,
though some longer walks are included staying at mountain huts. The
guidebook gives an outline of two multi-day tours and suggestions
for shorter valley walks of less than 3hrs are also included. The
Bavarian Alps make an ideal destination for an easy-to-organise and
affordable walking holiday.
This is a highly detailed and superbly illustrated guidebook to
walking in what is probably Scotland's most popular and most
accessible range of hills - the splendid Pentland Hills on the
outskirts of Edinburgh. 60 varied walks have been carefully
selected and described ranging from low level family strolls to
easy hill walks and lengthier, more challenging hill and moorland
walks. This is an ideal guidebook for both the regular outdoor
enthusiast and the occasional visitor, including more than 150
colour photographs, 60 coloured route maps and a unique table of
heights listing 157 high points in the Pentland Hills.
Think the Munros are too difficult? Think again. Meet Baffies, the
entertainments convenor of the Go-Take-a-Hike Mountaineering Club.
Named after his footwear of choice [Baffies is a Scottish word for
slippers], he is gifted in the art of finding the easiest way up
any given mountain. This is the second in the Baffies’ Easy Munro
Guide series of reliable rucksack guides to some of the more easily
tackled Munros. Twenty-five routes, each covering one main Munro,
all with detailed maps and full colour throughout – this lightly
humorous and opinionated book will tell you everything you need to
reach the summit.
There are few more beautiful places than Scotland's winter
mountains. But even when most of the snow has melted, isolated
patches can linger well into summer and beyond. In The Vanishing
Ice, Iain Cameron chronicles these remarkable and little-seen
relics of the Ice Age, describing how they have fascinated
travellers and writers for hundreds of years, and reflecting on the
impact of climate change. Iain was nine years old when snow patches
first captured his imagination, and they have been inextricably
bound with his life ever since. He developed his expertise through
correspondence (and close friendship) with research ecologist Dr
Adam Watson, and is today Britain's foremost authority on this
weather phenomenon. Iain takes us on a tour of Britain which
includes the Scottish Highlands, the Southern Uplands, the Lake
District and Snowdonia, seeking elusive patches of snow in wild and
often inaccessible locations. His adventures include a perilous
climb in the Cairngorms with comedian Ed Byrne, and glorious days
spent out on the hills with Andrew Cotter and his very good dogs,
Olive and Mabel. Based on sound scientific evidence and personal
observations, accompanied by stunning photography and wrapped in
Iain's shining passion for the British landscape, The Vanishing Ice
is a eulogy to snow, the mountains and the great outdoors.
In the popular Wales Coast Path: Top 10 Walks series this
attractive and cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the
finest short circular walks along the South Wales Coast section of
the Wales Coast Path in a popular pocketable format. With clear
information, an overview and introduction for each walk, large
scale Ordnance Survey maps, superb eye-grabbing panoramic
photographs, and interpretation of points of interest along the
way, these guides set a new standard in clarity and ease-of-use.
Featured walks include: Margam Country Park, Kenfig Burrows,
Merthyr-mawr WarrenOgmore & St Brides Major, Nash Point &
St Donat's, Llantwit Major, Porthkerry Country Park, Cardiff Bay,
Nash & Uskmouth and Redwick.
This attractive and cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of
the best walks to the finest pubs and inns in the Peak District
National Park in a popular pocketable format. With clear
information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly
written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps,
superb, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, and interpretation of
points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard
in clarity and ease-of-use.Featured walks include: Ye Olde Royal
Oak, Wetton, Bull's Head, Monyash, Peacock, Bakewell, Bridge Inn,
Calver , Bull's Head Inn, Foolow, Grouse Inn, Nether Padley, Barrel
Inn, Bretton, Old Nag's Head, Edale, Lantern Pike Inn, Hayfield and
the Old Horns Inn, High Bradfield.
This book is a celebration of mountain huts, showcasing the the
sheer variety and sometimes quirky nature of these buildings that
allow walkers, trekkers and climbers to access remote corners of
the mountains. Packed with entertaining stories that bring the
places and people to life, it contains descriptions of the author's
favourite huts in the Alps, along with suggestions for hut-to-hut
tours of 3-13 days duration, including the Tour of Mont Blanc. It
also traces the history of huts and how they have evolved from the
most primitive of shelters to the often purpose-built, eco-friendly
buildings of today. For the uninitiated, it unravels some of the
mystery of huts and explains how to use them and what facilities to
expect. Above all, it illustrates the way in which mountain huts
can be truly sociable places, where like-minded people can spend a
night or two in the most magical of locations and share a love of
wild places.
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This guidebook presents 50 half-day and day walks in Mallorca's
Serra de Tramuntana, the striking limestone range that stretches
along the northwestern flank of the island. Whilst the region
promises breathtaking scenery and some fantastic walks, there is
also some potentially challenging terrain, making guidance when
choosing, planning and walking the routes all the more valuable. As
many involve steep ground, navigational challenge and hands-on
scrambling, these routes are primarily geared towards those with
some experience of mountain walking. Comprehensive route
description is illustrated with 1:25,000 Alpina mapping and each
walk includes a statistics box to aid route selection. Useful
contacts are listed in the appendix. There is also background
information on history, plants and wildlife, plus language notes in
native Catalan and Castilian Spanish. The routes are spread across
the Serra de Tramuntana, with characterful towns and villages such
as Soller, Deia, Fornalutx, Valldemossa and Pollenca serving as
potential bases for a walking holiday. Ranging from 5.5km to 24km,
the carefully selected routes showcase the region's rugged
limestone peaks, mountain and coastal vistas and rich mountain
heritage manifested in numerous drystone constructions,
charcoal-burning sites and irrigation systems. Highlights include
the lush island of sa Dragonera and the dramatic gorge of Torrent
de Pareis. The majority of walks are accessible by public transport
and many can be linked, opening up further possibilities for
exploration.
Fully updated and revised, this edition includes trail descriptions
and maps of the author's favorite short hikes in Canyonlands and
Arches National Parks. All hikes included in this bookare on
well-defined, easy-to-follow trails, and take hikers into some of
the most scenic sections of the park.
Walking guide to the islands of La Gomera and El Hierro. The 45
waymarked routes in this guidebook include easy strolls and
hands-on scrambles, day walks and long-distance routes including
the GR132 and parts of the GR131, which runs the whole length of
the Canary Islands. Walks are spread in the guide roughly clockwise
and where walks are located beside each other, links between them
are often possible, giving you the opportunity to make your own
alterations. The routes are described over both islands, with 27
walks on La Gomera and 18 on El Hierro, illustrated with clear
contour mapping and inspirational photography. The two smallest of
the Canary Islands are no less rugged than their volcanic
neighbours, offering a wide variety of little-known walking terrain
from steep-sided barrancos and dramatic cliffs to the gentler
slopes inland cloaked in laurisilva and pine forests.
This guidebook presents four specially devised treks in the
mountains of Greece, showcasing its beautiful scenery, rich flora
and cultural interest. The Peloponnese Way crosses the Peloponnese
peninsula from Dhiakofto in the north to Pantazi beach in the
south, via Tripoli. Taking in alpine meadows, a dramatic gorge and
forest-clad slopes, the 220km route can be walked in around a
fortnight. The 460km Pindos Way is a south-north traverse of
Greece's mountain backbone, and can be walked in a month, or split
into sections of around a week. With remote terrain, navigational
challenge and fewer facilities on route, it is the toughest of the
four treks but offers a unique chance to experience both the
country's wilderness and traditional mountain life. A shorter 80km
Zagori trek can be enjoyed in its own right or incorporated into
the Pindos Way, and the final route explores Mt Olympus, home of
the ancient gods of Greek myth and the highest mountain in Greece.
With clear mapping alongside detailed route description for each
stage of the treks, as well as background information about the
region and a Greek-English glossary.
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