Book Description
Describes the first traverse of the Scottish Munros in a single journey.
Author : Hamish M. Brown
Publisher : Sandstone PressLtd
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781905207336
Describes the first traverse of the Scottish Munros in a single journey.
Author : Hamish Brown
Publisher : Sandstone Press Ltd
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 190873762X
Hamish Brown's account of his epic walk has been the inspiration for generations of hillwalkers. Sandstone Press is proud to present, not a mere reprint, but a complete reimagining of the book in a modern font, with a new introduction and appendix, and a new, extended colour plate section all provided by Hamish Brown. This will be a book that every lover of the Scottish hills, and everyone who has been touched by the spirit of the outdoors will want to read and reread
Author : Hamish Brown
Publisher : Sandstone PressLtd
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781905207596
Soon after completing the first continuous round of the Munros, Hamish Brown took to the outdoors and writing full time. With his famous Shetland collie, Storm, he walked from John O'Groats to Lands End over the summer of 1979. A historical snapshot, the resulting book is also an in depth look at these islands.
Author : Hamish Fulton
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN :
"A book of Hamish Fulton's text pieces that both discuss and exemplify his artwork. Fulton's spare texts originate in walks he takes through the landscape. Descriptive and at times prescriptive, he describes them as "facts for the walker and fiction for everyone else." Carefully placed on the small square pages, each aphoristic piece is simultaneously present and absent as an artwork, a fact captured by the book's subtitle: 'The separation of subject (walking) and medium (text on paper).'"--Printed Matter.
Author : Tom Patey
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780898865424
The first American edition of a mountaineering classic: stories, satire, and verse by the legendary Scottish climber.
Author : Alastair Borthwick
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1910240273
Alastair Borthwick's classic tale of camping, hiking and climbing tells of the freedom and fellowship enjoyed by climbers in Scotland in the 1930s. His beautiful, vivid descriptions of the landscape are only rivalled by his colourfully drawn, highly entertaining cast of characters, all of whom are passionate about the outdoors and their place within it. Borthwick takes his reader - via road, campsite and bothy - from Arrochar to Glencoe; from the Cuillin to Lairig Ghru. Encounters with tramps, tinkers and hawkers, and of hitching to Ben Nevis in a lorry full of dead sheep, are all described in Borthwick's light-hearted style. He weaves a hilarious tale, aided by the eccentric folk he meets, and this light-hearted read continues to delight, decades after it was first published. Always A Little Further is essential reading for any climber, or indeed anyone, who longs to be transported from the mundane day to day to the wilds of Scotland.
Author : Hamish Brown
Publisher : Sandstone Press Ltd
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1910985597
Hamish Brown has been an outdoorsman for more than sixty years. The first person to complete an uninterrupted round of Scotland's Munros, his account of the feat in Hamish's Mountain Walk is a classic of Scottish mountain literature. Throughout those years he has contributed articles and essays to many journals and, in this selection, he presents not an autobiography or some overview of life, but a very personal record of his many journeys and interests from his 'dancing days of spring' to his present, very active, later life.
Author : Hamish Fulton
Publisher :
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780914782728
Author : Hamish Brown
Publisher : Sandstone Press Ltd
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1912240793
Hamish Brown, who occupies a special place as a Scottish writer and traveller, turns his wealth of experience into captivating narratives of fascinating people and places; sometimes serious, at times laugh aloud in this new volume. Chasing the Dreams is a companion to Walking the Song, with the same kaleidoscopic range and variety, telling of treks in Scotland, the Alps, Atlas and Himalaya, of ventures by canoe and sailing, ski-ing and cycling.
Author : Chris Townsend
Publisher : Random House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1780578237
When Chris Townsend reached the summit of Ben Hope in Sutherland, he walked his way into the record books. After 118 days in which he had covered more than 1,700 miles and climber over 575,000 feet, he had completed the first single continuous journey of all 277 Munros and 240 Tops in the Scottish Highlands.This is the story of that remarkable walk from the start on Ben More on the Isle of Mull through to the finish, the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest 18 times. For the author, the real enjoyment of the walk was not in counting up the summits or the miles but in spending week after week in the hills and living in the wilds. In THE MUNROS AND TOPS, Chris Townsend recalls the joys of observing the birds and animals, the trees and flowers, the changing shapes of the hills and the play of light on their slopes. He writes about the complexities of route-finding and the challenge of rugged terrain and of coping with often atrocious weather conditions. Illustrated with photographs taken during the walk, this is a stirring account of a unique achievement.