24th June 2024
Book Review – Packrafting: a UK manual
Jason Taylor has written the first comprehensive British guide to inflatable boats for adventure travel. Packrafter David Lintern takes a look.
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Outdoor Book Reviews
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14th June 2024
Review – Ethel: The biography of countryside pioneer Ethel Haythornthwaite by Helen Mort
The quiet activism and lost history of Ethel Haythornthwaite, without whom we arguably wouldn't have a Peak District National Park, is brought back to life in a timely and vibrant manner by Helen Mort.
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17th May 2024
Book review – Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You
Even the most devoted supporters of the Right to Roam will learn and grow from this profoundly beautiful call to arms.
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25th April 2024
Book review – The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There by Jack Cornish
From jaggers' cloughs to coffin routes via salt ways and mining routes, Jack Cornish tells a vibrant tale of the lost paths we ramblers can bring back to life.
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24th April 2024
Book review – Everest 24: New views on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition
Ronald Turnbull reviews a coffee table book stuffed with magnificent panoramas celebrating an historic expedition 100 years later.
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19th April 2024
Book review: There is No Wall by Allie Bailey
Allie Bailey’s brutally honest account of alcoholism in There is No Wall helps fight the narrative that running will save you – all the while helping the community ask ourselves why we run, says Stew…
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2nd March 2024
Book review: Local by Alastair Humphreys
While many of us tirelessly seek the next big peak or a new place where we can disconnect, there is much to learn from Alistair Humphreys' new book.
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22nd January 2024
Book review – Time & Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape by Fiona Stafford
Ronald Turnbull praises the literary history in Fiona Stafford's Time & Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape.
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15th January 2024
Book review – Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands by Annie Worsley
Megan Carmichael reviews Windswept, a realistic but romantic book vividly detailing the natural cycle of a Highland croft.
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1st January 2024
Book review: Wanderlust – British and Irish Isles
This book offers the inspiration and information you need to walk beloved long-distance trails in Britain (as well as some hidden gems) in a beautifully-presented package.
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20th December 2023
Book Review: The Great Wilderness by Alex Nail
Chris Townsend is impressed by Alex Nail's wonderful photography - and the efforts it took to capture these mountain moments.
