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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Outdoor book reviews
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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.
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20th December 2023
Book Review: Walking the Bones of Britain by Christopher Somerville
Walking the Bones of Britain demystifies our daunting geology on a nine-month journey laced with humour and history, says reviewer Roger Butler.
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18th December 2023
Book review: Extreme Horizons by David Pickford
Ronald Turnbull reviews the vivid and beautiful accounts of climbs and deep-sea adventures held within the pages of this book.
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7th December 2023
Book review: The Hidden Fires – A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd by Merryn Glover
They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes. But Merryn Glover's book, The Hidden Fires, proves it is not only a beautiful but thoroughly worthy pursuit to follow in their footsteps.
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14th November 2023
Book review: On Sacred Ground by Andrew Terrill
Chris Townsend gives high praise to Andrew Terrill's second book recounting an epic 7000-mile walk from the toe of Italy to the northern tip of Norway.
