Hiking category: 1575 books
Hillwalking in Shropshire
32 hill and country walks
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Guidebook to 32 walks in the hills of Shropshire. The walks, which are graded easy, moderate or hard, range from 3 miles (5km) to 12 miles (19km) and can be walked in all seasons. The selected routes take in highlights such as The Wrekin, Wenlock Edge, Long Mynd and Stiperstones, Castle Ring and Bury...
Walking in the North Pennines
50 Walks in England's remotest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
A guidebook to day walks in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), across Cumbria, County Durham and Northumberland. The book includes 50 walks exploring England's 'last wilderness', ranging from 5 miles (8km) to 14 miles (23km). Most are circular, though there are some linear...
The Pilgrims' Way
To Canterbury from Winchester and London
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This guidebook details the Pilgrims' Way, an historic pilgrimage route to Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, home of the shrine of the martyred archbishop, St Thomas Becket. The route is described both from Winchester in Hampshire (138 miles) and London's Southwark Cathedral (90¼ miles), with an optional...
The Speyside Way
A Scottish Great Trail, includes the Dava Way and Moray Coast trails
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This guidebook describes the Speyside Way, an official 66 mile (106km) Scottish Great Trail route which follows the River Spey through northern Scotland from Aviemore to the old port of Buckie on the Moray coast. Featuring easy walking on good paths and along disused railway lines, the route can be...
The Wales Coast Path
Llwybr Arfordir Cymru
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
The Welsh Coast Path, at 870 miles is the longest trail in Britain, tracing the coastline from Chester to Chepstow. This guidebook divides the entire coastal path into 9 geographical areas and 57 stages, ranging between 10 to 20 miles in length. However there is no need to stick rigidly to this schedule,...
Walking in London
Park, heath and waterside - 25 walks in London's green spaces
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This guidebook presents 25 varied walks exploring London's green and open spaces. Covering both the city centre and the Greater London area, it takes in royal parks, heaths, forests, canals and rivers, including Epping Forest, Hampstead Heath, the World Heritage site of Kew Gardens and Wimbledon Common....
by Kev Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Guidebook to 40 day walks in the South Downs National Park. The walks, which are designed to suit all abilities, are dotted all over the National Park and range from 4 miles (7.5km) to 11 miles (17.5km). Each walk is circular, and where possible begins and ends at a place accessible by public transport....
Best Rail Trails New England
More than 40 Rail Trails from Maine to Connecticut
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
This is the essential state-by-state guide to walking, jogging, biking, and cross-country skiing the finest destinations of New England's rail trail system. This easy-to-use book provides mile-by-mile descriptions of thirty-six of the region's most popular rural and urban rail trails, plus complete...
The Coire of the Snows (Coire an t-Sneachda)
A walk on the wild side
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
A series of booklets about favourite walks around Glenmore, Loch Morlich and the northern corries of the Cairngorm Mountains in the Highlands of Scotland.
This booklet will guide you safely deep into a coire next to Cairngorm Mountain. 'Sneachda' is the beautiful Gaelic word for 'Snow"
The Wye Valley Walk
From Chepstow to Plynlimon
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Official guidebook to the Wye Valley Walk. Following the River Wye for 136 miles from the mouth of the river at Chepstow to the slopes of Plynlimon in Powys, the Wye Valley offers a perfect mix of river and hill walking. Devised by the Wye Valley Walk Partnership, the walk takes up to two weeks to...
Camping and Woodcraft
A Handbook for Vacation Campers and Travelers in the Woods
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Originally published in 1906, Horace Kephart’s Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and Travelers in the Woods stands over a century later as a classic in outdoors writing. Praised by Field & Stream as “an encyclopedia of living in the open,” it provides expertly detailed answers...
Woodcraft and Indian Lore
A Classic Guide from a Founding Father of the Boy Scouts of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
At the turn of the twentieth century, an age of booming technology and a rapid reduction of the outdoors, wildlife enthusiast Ernest Thompson Seton called for a renewed interest in outdoor living. If the nation was in need of a dose of nature then, we could certainly benefit from Seton’s expert...
by Pete Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
There can be no more enduring and instantly recognizable symbols of the Alps than the Eiger and the Matterhorn. These two great mountains have inspired climbers throughout Europe and further afield while the villages of Grindelwald and Zermatt; nestling beneath their peaks have become world famous...
More Readings From One Man's Wilderness
The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Embrace the wonder of nature with one extraordinary man’s chronicle of living alone in the Alaskan wilderness.
Often called a modern-day Thoreau, Richard Proenneke took up residence in a small cabin he built in Twin Lakes, Alaska, in 1968, and spent the next thirty years living alone there,...