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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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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29th October 2020
Review: Orchard by Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates
Is the traditional orchard one of the most valuable havens for wildlife? Alex Roddie’s review of Orchard reveals a powerfully-argued book with a fascinating premise.
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22nd November 2018
Book review: Northwest by Alex Nail
Northwest by Alex Nail may be a landscape photography book, says David Lintern, but it's a thoroughly modern one: "Alex has a mountaineer’s ethic at the heart of his photography".
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31st January 2018
Book review: Walking the Song by Hamish Brown
Alex Roddie reviews a book that captures the spirit of outdoor adventure – and that of the TGO Challenge
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19th January 2018
Book Review: The Hidden Ways – Scotland's Forgotten Roads by Alistair Moffat
Roger Butler looks at a treasure trove of stories from the highways and byways of Scotland
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5th December 2017
Book review: Ascent – A Life Spent Climbing on the Edge by Sir Chris Bonington
"The next step for Chris always leads to the wonderful unknown" – Noel Dawson reviews Ascent, the new book by Sir Chris Bonington
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15th November 2017
Book review: Art of Freedom – the life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka by Bernadette McDonald
'A completely absorbing journey' – David Lintern reviews the biography of a little-known but radical Polish alpinist
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23rd October 2017
Book review: The Island in imagination and experience by Barry Smith
Jim Perrin reviews a 'fascinating, scrupulous, angry' book
