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Ring the Hill (Hardcover)
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Ring the Hill (Hardcover)
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List price R536
Loot Price R406
Discovery Miles 4 060
You Save R130 (24%)
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'Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving . . . It made me
want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps'
Stephen Fry 'Beautiful, funny, fascinating,
impossible-to-categorise . . . Like going on a great ramble with a
knowledgeable, witty, engaging friend. Tom Cox brings magic to the
most mundane of subjects' Marian Keyes 'Sheer bloody genius . . . I
loved it. Then I loved it more' John Lewis-Stempel, author of
Meadowland A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you
put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked 'Quite A Lot Of
Hills' where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are.Ring
the Hill is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a
northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in
England. Each chapter takes a type of hill - whether it's a knoll,
cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump - as a starting point for one
of Tom's characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging
explorations. Tom's lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate
relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to
meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into
the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills
is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead.
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