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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Outdoor book reviews
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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.
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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.
