Book Description
Presents a personal selection of the author's best walks around Britain. This title includes over forty illustrations and area maps showing walk locations and easy-to-follow directions.
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Haus Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2012-04
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781907973727
Presents a personal selection of the author's best walks around Britain. This title includes over forty illustrations and area maps showing walk locations and easy-to-follow directions.
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Haus Pub.
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2009
Category : England
ISBN : 9781906598211
Christopher Somerville has been walking, exploring and writing all over the world for 30 years, for the last 15 as the Walking Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Christopher Somerville’s 100 Best Walks presents a personal selection of his best walks. Read individually they are a wealth of evocative observations of people, places, moods and reflections. As a collection, they take the reader on a vivid and unforgettable adventure through Britain townscapes and countryside. With over forty map illustrations for individual walks, area maps showing the walk locations, easy to follow directions and laid out by region, this volume is a comprehensive guide to walking your way through Britain.
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : England
ISBN : 9780008200701
200 walks from the popular Times' column A good walk'. Christopher Somerville has covered the length and breadth of Britain, with over 25 years of writing and broadcasting about country walks. From Cornwall to Shetland via Pembrokeshire and Borrowdale. This is the most comprehensive collection of walks in the United Kingdom available in one book.
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Times Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2025-03-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780008745189
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780715337752
Includes 100 greatest walks in Britain that have been chosen by "Country Walking" magazine, Britain's walking journal, and contains the information you need to enjoy walking in the very best of Britain's countryside.
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9780319090862
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Random House
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1473576830
‘Somerville’s infectious enthusiasm and wry humour infuse his journey from the Isle of Lewis to southern England, revealing our rich geological history with vibrant local and natural history’ Observer ‘A meticulous exploration of the ground beneath our feet. Glorious’ Katharine Norbury ‘A remarkable achievement’ Tom Chesshyre ‘His writing is utterly enticing’ Country Walking ............................................................................................................................................... The influence Britain’s geology has had on our daily lives is profound. While we may be unaware of it, every aspect of our history has been affected by events that happened ten thousand, a million, or a thousand million years ago. In Walking the Bones of Britain, Christopher Somerville takes a journey of a thousand miles, beginning in the far north, at the three-billion-year-old rocks of the Isle of Lewis, formed when the world was still molten, and travelling south-eastwards to the furthest corner of Essex, where new land is being formed. Crossing bogs, scaling peaks and skirting quarry pits, he unearths the stories bound up in the layers of rock beneath our feet, and examines how they have influenced everything from how we farm to how we build our houses, from the Industrial Revolution to the current climate crisis. Told with characteristic humour and insight, this gripping exploration of the British landscape and its remarkable history cannot fail to change the way you see the world beyond your door. ‘Somerville is a walker’s writer’ Nicholas Crane
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Black Swan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781784161248
In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again - a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. After teenage rifts it was walking that brought us closer as father and son; and this 'ghost' of Dad has been walking at my elbow since his death, as I have ruminated on his great love of walking, his prodigious need to do it - and how and why I walk myself. The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that continually bring his father to mind. As he travels the country - from the winter floodlands of the River Severn to the lambing pastures of Nidderdale, the towering seabird cliffs on the Shetland Isle of Foula in June and the ancient oaks of Sherwood Forest in autumn - he describes the history, wildlife, landscapes and people he encounters, down back lanes and old paths, in rain and fair weather. This exquisitely written account of the British countryside not only inspires us to don our boots and explore the 140,000 miles of footpaths across the British Isles, but also illustrates how, on long-distance walks, we can come to an understanding of ourselves and our fellow walkers. Over the hills and along the byways, Christopher Somerville examines what moulded the men of his father's generation - so reticent about their wartime experiences, so self-effacing, upright and dutiful - as he searches for 'the man inside the man' that his own father really was.
Author : Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1848948697
Bognor Regis...Aberystwyth...Glasgow...Can you place them on a map? Most people can't these days. What kind of countryside do you pass through on your way to the Cairngorms, or the Fens, or Northumberland? What's north of the Pennines? And what's it like when you get there? Most folk wouldn't have a clue. Increasing numbers of us don't have a basic geographical notion of these islands. Blame it on a decline in formal geography teaching, or Sat-Nav and other 'A to Z and nothing in between' devices that make us lazy -- we are becoming the best travelled and least well orientated Britons ever seen. Now Christopher Somerville, bestselling author of Coast and many other books of UK exploration, presents the basics of what belongs where, which counties border one another, and what lies beyond the Watford Gap. He reminds us of the watery bits, the lumpy bits and the flat bits, and gets to grips with the smaller islands surrounding Britain -- and much more. Never Eat Shredded Wheat is a reminder of all the fascinating British geography once learned at school - geography that brings our islands vividly to life - geography which we have forgotten, or never even knew.