11th June 2019
Review: Walking in Cumbria’s Eden Valley by Vivienne Crow
Vivienne Crow’s field guide to walks in the Eden Valley area, first published in 2011, was recently released as a second edition.
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Outdoor book reviews
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28th May 2019
Book review: Underland by Robert Macfarlane
Roger Smith reviews a 'modern epic' by Robert Macfarlane.
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7th May 2019
Book review: Silence by Erling Kagge
Roger Smith reviews a book that praises silence in the great outdoors.
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2nd May 2019
Going hungry in the Yorkshire Dales: an extract from James Forrest’s ‘Mountain Man’
“This was my first experience of mountain hunger and I hated it. I stuffed my face with a peculiar dinner of chorizo wraps, and peanut butter on Hobnobs.”
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30th April 2019
Book review: Scotland A Rewilding Journey by Susan Wright and Peter Cairns
Chris Townsend reviews a book about rewilding that urges readers to think like a mountain.
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25th April 2019
Cicerone Press at 50: a deep dive into Fifty Years of Adventure with Kev Reynolds and Jonathan Williams
“Embrace the challenge of the unknown… for in that lies some of the romance, the appeal, and the very essence of adventure.”
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15th April 2019
Book review: The Unlikeliest Backpacker by Kathryn Barnes
Chiara Bullen reviews The Unlikeliest Backpacker by Kathryn Barnes: "I barely turned a page without chuckling"
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3rd April 2019
Nine Standards: a walk in Cumbria’s Eden Valley
Walking in Cumbria’s Eden Valley by Vivienne Crow describes 30 walks between the Yorkshire Dales and the Solway salt marshes. In this extract, we’ve shared Walk 3 – Nine Standards.
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28th March 2019
Book extract: Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance – The Landscape, History and People of the Lake District by David Howe
In this extract from Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance: The Landscape, History and People of the Lake District by David Howe, published today, the author explores the ice-bound past of the Lakeland landscape we…
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21st March 2019
Book review and interview: Quest into the Unknown – My Life as a Climbing Nomad by Tony Howard
Our review of Quest into the Unknown, an exciting new book on climbing, trekking and exploration by Tony Howard – plus a revealing interview with Di Taylor.
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18th March 2019
Book review: Fifty Years of Adventure by Kev Reynolds (Cicerone Press)
Alex Roddie says "Fifty Years of Adventure made me want to drop everything, pack my rucksack and head for the mountains."
