R May: 50 books
by julia r merrifield, julia r may
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Two friends deliberated where to choose for their next walking holiday. How about somewhere different? How about somewhere exotic? How about somewhere foreign? How about Wales? But with countless people advising them where to walk that summer and with neither of them speaking a word of Welsh, had...
Pedals, Panniers and Punctures
One woman, one bike and no backup on a unique End to End Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Cycling the End to End is so much more than just sitting on something no bigger than, and as hard as, the sole plate of an iron and pedalling, as Julia was to discover. Every experience seemed to be about extremes: Cornish hills, Cheshire plains, busy Devon lanes, empty highland roads, downpours,...
Strange Victory
Hitler's Conquest of France
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940.
Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book, Strange Defeat, about the treatment of his...
My Feet and Other Animals
630 miles on the South West Coast Path
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
When two friends planned a long distance walk on England’s South West Coast Path they thought the toughest challenge would be the walking itself. But the biggest obstacles to be overcome were not the 630 miles of footpaths, or the soaring ascents and descents of the cliffs. They were the unforeseen...
by julia r merrifield, julia r may
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Ever heard of a bloke called Offa? King of Mercia, he instigated the building of a defensive dyke. 12 centuries later a long distance path was laid out, roughly following the line of Offa’s Dyke, and thirty years later still two friends set out to walk it. How difficult could it be, walking from...
Cycling Across England
A Sea to Sea Ride
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Two women, two bikes, no backup on a Sea to Sea adventure.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century two friends set off to cycle from coast to coast across England. For one, it was to be the first of many long distance cycle rides.
Cycling Across England is an account of the fun, the food, the...
Bicycles, Boats and Bagpipes
A Cycle Ride through the Outer Hebrides and the west coast of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Having cycled the length and breadth of the British mainland, it was time for a change. After seeing a little blue cycle route sign on the west coast of Scotland, Julia was struck with inspiration. The islands of the Outer Hebrides beckoned. There was just one problem, her boyfriend wanted to go too!...
I've Cycled Through There
A journey home through the heart of England
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
That strangest of traveller, the lone female, is at it again. This time cycling through the heart of England from Bath to London to her home in Lancashire. For such a small country England was proving to be a land of contrasts and surprises; from the leafy lanes of Berkshire to the bleak moorlands...
A Week in Provence
Walking in the Verdon Gorge and Haute Provence
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
A much needed autumn break walking in the Verdon Gorge region of Provence turns into a fraught lesson in how not to speak French as the author gets to grips with the language of love, romance and strange combinations of Cs, Qs, apostrophes and genders. Written with her by now trademark self-deprecating...
Walking With Hadrian
A walk through time and fog along Hadrian's Wall
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
A walk through time and fog along Hadrian’s Wall. Built almost two thousand years ago on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian and marking the northern-most boundary of the Roman Empire, Hadrian’s Wall is one of Britain’s most enduring ancient monuments and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2003...
by Julia R May
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Running two hundred miles from Newcastle to Edinburgh, the Coast and Castles Cycle Route promised to be a journey through millennia of turbulent history and fabulous scenery. It proved to be more than just ruined castles and wild coastline. More industrial heritage, more rain, more cross dressing...
Bicycles, Beer and Black Forest Gateau
Cycling down the River Rhine from source to sea.
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Not many people would consider cycling hundreds miles through Europe to be a relaxing holiday. Mike certainly didn’t. But Julia did, she was peculiar that way. There was a challenge to be had in following the River Rhine from its source high in the Swiss Alps, through Germany, France and the Netherlands...
Dawdling Through The Dales
Walking the Dales Way Long Distance Footpath
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
The Dales Way long distance footpath runs for over eighty miles from Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere, encompassing the beautiful scenery of North Yorkshire and Cumbria and two National Parks. It is a varied walk of ever-changing scenery of lush river valleys, limestone pavements, moorland and mountains,...
Venous Valves
Morphology, Function, Radiology, Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Venous valves rank among the smallest and most delicate organs of the human and animal bodies - so why devote an entire book to them? We were induced to do so by several reasons. First of all we would point out the clinical significance of venous valves. In the pathogenesis of a number of widespread...