The Central Highlands: 6 Long Distance Walks - Couverture souple

Koch-Osborne, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852842679 ISBN 13 : 9781852842673

Editeur : Cicerone Press, 1998

Synopsis

A guide to the classic backpacking routes of Scotland's Central Highlands. If you are looking to escape the more populous walking areas of the Highlands this is the book for you. The author takes us away from the ?honey-pots' with six superb long-distance backpacking routes, three to eight days' in length, almost all on rights of way. This is Wild Scotland - a working landscape of deer forest, grouse moor, hill sheep farms, beef and dairy farms and commercial forest, where a sense of peace and isolation is guaranteed and accommodation is largely confined to the odd B+B, youth hostel, bothy or tent. Each route has opportunities to explore adjacent glens and peaks, with variations and alternatives to the set walks. Route starts and finishes are well supplied by bus and rail services, and the numerous sketch maps for each walk provide additional information to the OS maps. All the routes have been surveyed and graded by the author, Peter Koch-Osborne, whose affection for the ?wild places' is manifest.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

I have walked the hills from the age of about 7, and cycled for as long as I can remember in my native Yorkshire and the Lake District, and abroad in the Alps and Pyrenees. When the new sport of mountainbiking emerged in the eighties it seemed a natural progression - a combination of two of my favourite activities. But where to go? On hiring bikes on a holiday near Aviemore with my wife, son and daughter there was no information available other than the OS maps. We soon got our own bikes and I set out to compile a guide to the tracks around the Cairngorms, more as a personal notebook at first. Once completed, I approached Cicerone Press. Walt Unsworth, the then owner of Cicerone, immediately gave me a contract for "the first three" books. Untill then it was never my intention to write more. The rest is, as they say, history! The completion of the series of nine books took 10 years during which time I was fortunate enough to retire (ridiculously early!) from my main business in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry. We soon moved to Beauly in the Highlands of Scotland where work on the last 6 or 7 books continued. Sadly, my first wife died in 1999, just before the final book was printed. I have since re-married and will soon be moving to Cumbria to be closer to family and friends and to re-visit my beloved Lakeland Hills. My writing activities have continued in the sphere of walking guides up in the Scottish Highlands but who knows what the future in Cumbria holds?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cicerone Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852842679
• ISBN 13: 9781852842673
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible