Alone on the South Downs Way


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Alone on the South Downs Way is the story of Holly Worton's 100 mile walking journey along one of England's National Trails in 2015. An avid walker, she thought she was up for the challenge of an eight day hike, and happily set off to explore the South Downs. What followed was a magical journey through nature that was both more satisfying and more difficult than she ever imagined. This book contains all the blisters, sweat, and tears from that life-changing journey. More than just a walking travelogue or memoirs of a walking holiday, this book contains Holly's reflections on walking the Way, including lessons learned and practical information to help you plan your South Downs Way hiking adventure. It includes a suggested packing list, gear recommendations, and other useful tips, such as when to walk the Way, where to stay, and how much you'll need to budget. This book will not only get you inspired to walk the South Downs Way or other long distance trail, it will encourage you to get outdoors more often.




Alone on the Ridgeway


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Alone on the Ridgeway is the inner journey of the author's solo 87 mile walking adventure along one of England's National Trails in 2016. This book is ideal for walkers who are new to doing a long distance trail, as it includes practical information and how to prepare for such a journey. The main focus, however, is the inner journey of the author as she reconnects with herself on the trail. This is not a guidebook or a book full of cultural and historical details. It's designed to help you decide whether the Ridgeway is the right trail for you, and if so, how to start planning for it.More than just a walking travelogue or memoirs of a walking holiday, this book contains Holly's reflections on walking the Ridgeway, including lessons learned and practical information to help you plan your Ridgeway hiking adventure. It includes a suggested packing list, gear recommendations, and other useful tips, such as when to walk the Ridgeway, where to stay, and how much you'll need to budget.




Walking the Downs Link


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This is the first guide to walking the Downs Link, a 37-mile trail that links the North Downs Way to the South Downs Way, continuing beyond to the coast where it ends at Shoreham-by-Sea. The Downs Link is an excellent trail for a long weekend walk, or for walkers seeking to do a first long-distance trail. More than just a walking travelogue or memoirs of a walking holiday, this book contains Holly's reflections on walking the Downs Link, including lessons learned and practical information to help you plan your Downs Link hiking adventure. It includes a suggested packing list, gear recommendations, and other useful tips, such as when to walk the trail, where to stay, and how much you'll need to budget. It also includes tips on how to access the trail, and how to walk it in either direction. This book will not only get you inspired to walk the Downs Link or any other long distance trail, it will encourage you to get outdoors more often.




The South Downs Way


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Guidebook to walking the South Downs Way National Trail, a 100 mile (160km) route between Winchester and Eastbourne through the South Downs National Park, described in both directions over 12 stages. Easy walking on ancient and historical tracks, taking in wooded areas, delightful river valleys and pretty villages. With 1:25K OS map booklet.




Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes


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‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.




The Cambrian Way


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Dubbed 'the mountain connoisseurs' walk', the Cambrian Way stretches 479km between the mighty castles of Cardiff in the south and Conwy on the north coast. Traversing the heartland of Wales, the challenging route crosses the Brecon Beacons, the Cambrian Mountains and Snowdonia, passing through two national parks and visiting many of the country's iconic summits, including Pen y Fan, Pumlumon, Cadair Idris and Snowdon itself. It can be walked in three weeks (or in shorter sections) and is suitable for experienced hillwalkers with sound navigational skills. The guide presents the route in 21 stages, offering comprehensive route description illustrated with OS 1:50,000 mapping and elevation profiles. Details of accommodation and facilities are provided, along with a helpful trek planner showing their distribution along the route: although the trail passes through remote areas, it is possible to stay under a roof every night - though camping is also a possibility, should you prefer. There are background notes on Wales's history and geology and local points of interest, and a glossary of Welsh place-names, useful contacts and accommodation listings can be found in the appendices. From the Black Mountains to the Rhinogau, Glyderau and Carneddau, the route takes in lofty ridges, striking peaks and picturesque lakes. There are also fascinating glimpses into the country's ancient and more recent past: Iron Age hillforts, Norman castles, a Cistercian abbey, the Chartist Cave and relics from the mining industry. Offering superlative scenery, the Cambrian Way is a celebration of some of the best mountain walking Wales has to offer and promises a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in these celebrated landscapes.




Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated


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Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America. Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolized a significant social change that became the basis of the acclaimed bestseller, Bowling Alone, which The Washington Post called “a very important book” and Putnam, “the de Tocqueville of our generation.” Bowling Alone surveyed in detail Americans’ changing behavior over the decades, showing how we had become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and social structures, whether it’s with the PTA, church, clubs, political parties, or bowling leagues. In the revised edition of his classic work, Putnam shows how our shrinking access to the “social capital” that is the reward of communal activity and community sharing still poses a serious threat to our civic and personal health, and how these consequences have a new resonance for our divided country today. He includes critical new material on the pervasive influence of social media and the internet, which has introduced previously unthinkable opportunities for social connection—as well as unprecedented levels of alienation and isolation. At the time of its publication, Putnam’s then-groundbreaking work showed how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction, and how the loss of social capital is felt in critical ways, acting as a strong predictor of crime rates and other measures of neighborhood quality of life, and affecting our health in other ways. While the ways in which we connect, or become disconnected, have changed over the decades, his central argument remains as powerful and urgent as ever: mending our frayed social capital is key to preserving the very fabric of our society.




Business Visibility


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Get fast and easy results in your business by making yourself more visible, both online and offline, so your ideal clients can easily discover you. This book will help you identify the visibility blocks that are holding you back from being more visible in your business. Once you've identified these blocks, then it's easy for you to take action to make the changes in your business mindset. Transforming your business mindset by releasing your visibility blocks can simply make business easier: having the right belief system can help entrepreneurs to release fear of visibility, set aligned prices for their products and services, and easily take inspired action to grow their business. It can help them easily take the actions they need to take to become more visible. If you're struggling to build your business because of low visibility, or if you're simply feeling stuck at a plateau and are frustrated with trying to take your business to a new level, you might benefit from upgrading your business mindset. This book is an short introduction on how you can get clear on which specific business beliefs may be holding you back from being more visible with your business: there's no verbose theory or fluff, just the basics to get you started on releasing your business blocks and transforming your mindset for business visibility. It's designed to provide you with the information as quickly and simply as possible, so you can easily identify the areas of your entrepreneurial mindset that are affecting your visibility, and then get to work releasing your business blocks at the subconscious level.This book will help you to dig deeper so you can explore what's making you play small and avoid taking your business out to a bigger audience. The deeper you dig to discover your blocks, the easier it is to find the core of the issue that's stopping you from having that dream business today. This book is for you if:* Something isn't quite working in your business, but you're not sure what. You've had great results with the few clients that you've had, but it seems to be feast or famine, and you haven't yet been able to tap into a steady stream of clients. * You've got enough clients for your low cost online course, but you can't manage to get enough people onto your VIP program. You know you've got to put yourself out there in a bigger way, but you just haven't managed to do it. * You know your business mindset needs some upgrading to help you get your business in front of your ideal clients. * You're willing to take an honest look at what might be holding you back from making yourself more visible, both online and offline.* You're ready to take action to transform your business visibility.It's usually not lack of business or marketing knowledge that holds us back in business: that's all easy to learn. It's our entrepreneurial mindset that stops us from creating the business we want. If you've ever struggled with self confidence, self esteem, or even setting prices that reflect your true value, then it may be time to explore how you can release your business blocks and create a business mindset that's ready to create success. In this book, you will learn:* How your beliefs and mindset affect your business visibility* Why business visibility is about more than just the actions you take* How to discover your visibility blocks so you can easily transform them* How you can change your beliefs at the subconscious level* How to harness the power of the subconscious mind and increase your business visibility




Business Intuition


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Get fast and easy results in your business by improving your intuition. This book not only explains the power of bringing intuition into your business, but it helps you develop your intuitive senses by giving you practical actions you can take to tap into and trust your intuition.If you're ignoring your business intuition, you might find it difficult to make decisions. You might struggle to set goals or to achieve them. You might find yourself making bad decisions that you later regret, kicking yourself because you knew all along, deep down, that it wasn't the right thing to do. When we follow our business intuition, it's like having an inner compass or GPS system that directs our thoughts and actions. It gives us useful bits of advice and it helps us to quickly and easily make decisions by giving us us crystal clarity of mind, which takes the stress out of knowing which path to choose for our business. Our intuition helps us to simply know if an opportunity is good or not, and to easily take decisive action when it is. This book will help you to easily access your business intuition. It gives you practical tips on how to develop your intuition, how to make it easier to hear its messages, how to trust your intuition, and how to use it in your business. It's designed to provide you with the information as quickly and simply as possible, so you can easily learn how to make intuition a bigger part of your business.This book is for you if:* You've ever made a bad business investment, whether it was an expensive business coach/mentor, an online program, or something else. You regret that decision, and you wonder how you could have thought that was the right thing for you at that time.* You've ever had a bad feeling about a new project that your business mentor encouraged you to take on, but went through with it anyway because you believed she must know best, only to have it flop in the end. Afterwards, you were left kicking yourself and wondering what went wrong. * You've ever listened to a business buddy's advice about what you needed to do to grow your business more quickly, even though it didn't seem right, and later regretted your decision. And then you wondered, if it worked for her, why didn't it work for you? * You've ever felt stuck and frustrated because you had absolutely no idea what to do in a particular situation, and then ended up making the wrong decision. It made you feel even more frustrated, because you spent time carefully considering the pros and cons of each option, and even then it didn't work out in your favor. * You've ever had a great idea for something, but then your head got in the way, and you now regret never taking action on it.Intuition is like a flashlight that shows us the next step or steps on our path toward our business goals. It gives us the confidence to take the next step and start walking down the path, even when we can't see the entire journey from here to our goals. When Iyou don't follow my intuition, you may feel like you're fumbling around in the dark. When you do follow it, you'll be confident in the actions that you take. In this book, you will learn:* Why it's so important for entrepreneurs to pay attention to their intuition* Why listening to your intuition can make business so much easier* What your business could look like if you listened to your intuition* How to develop your business intuition* Ways to make it easier for you to trust your intuition* How to use intuition in your business




The South Country


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This early work by Edward Thomas was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The South Country' is one of Thomas's works on the subject of nature. Philip Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, England in 1878. His parents were Welsh migrants, and Thomas attended several schools, before ending up at St. Pauls. Thomas led a reclusive early life, and began writing as a teenager. He published his first book, The Woodland Life (1897), at the age of just nineteen. A year later, he won a history scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford. Despite being less well-known than other World War I poets, Thomas is regarded by many critics as one of the finest.