28th January 2025
Book review – Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom
If you feel like you’ve lost your way, amid the mountain narrative, Kerri Andrews' new book may help you to place yourself once again.
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Outdoor book reviews
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10th January 2025
Book review – Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain
Corinne Fowler and her walking companions unpick uncomfortable colonial pasts in beloved British landscapes.
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8th January 2025
Book review: Scottish Hill Tracks from ScotWays
This book comes highly recommended by Equipment Editor Chris Townsend. Find out why.
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25th November 2024
Book review: The Cairngorms & North-East Scotland (SMC)
The new Scottish Mountaineering Club guide to the Cairngorms and North-East Scotland is a visual feast, says Ken Daykin.
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5th November 2024
Book review – Seaglass: Essays, Moments and Reflections
Frances Thimann praises Kathryn Tann's Seaglass, part memoir and part ode to water, for its originality and beauty.
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20th October 2024
Book Review – Doubling Back: Paths Trodden in Memory
This 10th anniversary edition is a welcome ‘doubling back’ over Cracknell’s walks and words.
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20th August 2024
Mountains before Mountaineering: The Call of the Peaks before the Modern Age
Dawn Hollis journeys through the mountains, long before Everest was ‘discovered’ as the highest, to tell the story of how our love of the mountains has always been part of us.
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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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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.
