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Books : Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places: 500 Ways to Discover the Wild
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Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places: 500 Ways to Discover the Wild by: Christopher Somerville List Price: £25.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £17.49 You Save: £7.51 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780713999679 ISBN: 0713999675 Label: Allen Lane Manufacturer: Allen Lane Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: July 03, 2008 Publisher: Allen Lane Studio: Allen Lane Sales Rank: 4646 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A great starting point for adventuresChristopher Somerville's book is clearly a work of love for him and its personalised and poetic accounts of some of Britain and Ireland's wild places is immediately accessible. Wisely he talks of wild places rather than 'wilderness' which as well as difficult to define largely does not, it can be argued, truly exist in the UK. The entries are long enough to entice you to further investigation, he is strong on the history of places, and gives you enough information to seek them out yourself. There are no detailed guided walks or maps for the individual entries which is no bad thing and impossible in any case for a work of this depth. The photographs are largely by the author and they add to its unique feel as they look like the ... Read More: Rating: - BeautifulChristopher's latest is a beautiful book to paw over and dip in and out of. The pictures are evocative and inspiring, and the text just takes you there. Great to keep in your car so that you always have something interesting to deviate off to when your on a journey. The format reminds me of a more lavish version of the old AA or RAC map/guide books that your Dad used to keep in the glove box and I loved to read as a boy. Rating: - Wild about the placesA culmination of many years of travelling the country, this is a fantastic collection of nooks, crannies and odd corners that have largely gone overlooked by the rest of us as we rush about our daily lives. A visit to any of these places would be time very well spent, but just curling up in a corner with it is a fine form of escape too if circumstances don't allow you to get away. A perfect partner to 'Places to Hide' by Dixe Wills which similarly takes readers to the most unlikely of places and makes them laugh at the same time, which is quite a feat. Anyway, I've no hesitation in awarding Somerville five stars for a great idea well executed. Rating: - How to take a walk on the wild sideAs soon as I saw this book, I knew that it would appeal to me. At present there are a great number of similarly themed books, all encouraging the reader to relinquish their place from the sofa and instead to get out into the countryside and experience the places within the pages for themselves. BRITAIN AND IRELAND'S BEST WILD PLACES is perhaps one of the best ways of beginning to do exactly that. The book is organised into regions, beginning with The West Country, moving upwards throughout Britain before fianlly moving across to Ireland. Each wild place has details of mapping and travel instructions, plus other useful information. For example, in the Republic of Ireland Somerville details the Nephin Beg mountains. Stating ... Read More: Rating: - a great travelling companionA lovely book - you feel compelled to read about places you have been to and driven to explore pastures new. A book to refer to on any trip to unfamiliar territory and a fabulous gift for anyone who likes to walk. |
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