Favourite Walking Books?

Mat Wilson said:

So, which are your favourite walking books.

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Mat Wilson said:

Hi,

A sometimes lurker here. I've just finished John Hillaby's 'Journey Through Britain' and loved
every page of it. I read Hamish Brown's Groats End Walk and really enjoyed that too. So, which are
your favourite walking books. Or in other words, which should I be looking out for next!

Mat Wilson

For a laugh and an American hike, Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. (About his unprepared hike of
the Appalachian Trail)

Then there is Hamish Brown's Mountain Walk and Climbing the Corbetts.

Katherine

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Hi,

A sometimes lurker here. I've just finished John Hillaby's 'Journey Through Britain' and loved
every page of it. I read Hamish Brown's Groats End Walk and really enjoyed that too. So, which are
your favourite walking books. Or in other words, which should I be looking out for next!

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Mat Wilson said:

Hi,

A sometimes lurker here. I've just finished John Hillaby's 'Journey Through Britain' and loved
every page of it. I read Hamish Brown's Groats End Walk and really enjoyed that too. So, which are
your favourite walking books. Or in other words, which should I be looking out for next!

Mat Wilson

Hamish's Mountain Walk , Hamish Brown Always a Little Further , Alastair Borthwick 2 degrees West ,
Nicholas Crane

Thats the first three that came to mind

Richard Webb

If you like Hamish Brown you should read 'The Last Hundred' - a collection of his experiences in the
Scottish hills. It's only £5 (hardback) and makes a good read. 'Mountain Days and Bothy
Nights'(Mitchell/Brown) has to be my favourite though.

Innes

Mat Wilson said:

Hi,

A sometimes lurker here. I've just finished John Hillaby's 'Journey Through Britain' and loved
every page of it. I read Hamish Brown's Groats End Walk and really enjoyed that too. So, which are
your favourite walking books. Or in other words, which should I be looking out for next!

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So, which are your favourite walking books. Or in other words, which should I be looking out
for next!

History Killing Dragons (History of mountaineering in t'Alps)

Fiction The Ascent of Rum Doodle (I was laughing out loud at page 1, very funny parody of '20s/30s
expedition accounts)

[pop-]Philosophy Mountains of the Mind (why we like mountains and how our view of them has changed
over time)

Travelogue 2 years in Tibet (a Japanese monk getting to Lhasa to study; I'm a bit of a
Tibetanophile, and this is my favourite book, its not all walking, but substantial bits are) hard to
find, but I believe there is a plan to re-publish

Travelogue (Walking fot pleasure [or to get to a climb]) Shipton - 6 mountain-travel books Tilman -
7 mountain-travel books both the above give good value, but not the kind of books to pack for
reading in the tent. most of the constituent books are hard to find as separate publications.

walking/travel/climbing they all tend to get a bit mixed up in my head, as one usually involves at
least one of the others, so not sure if the above could be considered "pure" walking books

Mike Harding - "Walking the Peak and Pennines" Ditto - "Walking the Dales" Anything by A Wainwright.

Steve

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Mike Harding - "Walking the Peak and Pennines" Ditto - "Walking the Dales" Anything by A
Wainwright.

Wainwright! Not really walking books as such, guides. A brilliant diarist and 'artist'. Nobody
will better him, but will/have tried:-(

And still pretty useful these days, although usually in a more general sense than orginally intended
(you need to be well aware of what's changed over the years!). They give you a very good indication
of what's likely to be a good route in the Lakes, and what's going to be a tedious slog. And the
"ridge" route description from Green to Great Gable applies even more so now (having said that, I
can't remember seeing anyone between the two the last time I was there).

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So, which are your favourite walking books. Or in other words, which should I be looking out
for next!

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz (Author)

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Mike Harding - "Walking the Peak and Pennines" Ditto - "Walking the Dales" Anything by A
Wainwright.

Wainwright! Not really walking books as such, guides. A brilliant diarist and 'artist'. Nobody will
better him, but will/have tried:-(

CravenBirds

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So, which are your favourite walking books. Or in other words, which should I be looking out
for next!

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz (Author)

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From Siberia to India on foot, escaping from the Gulag, in wartime, without equipment....

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I'm 99 per cent sure this book turned out to be a hoax. Can't remember why I know this. Anyone else
back me up on this?

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Mike Harding - "Walking the Peak and Pennines" Ditto - "Walking the Dales" Anything by A
Wainwright.

Wainwright! Not really walking books as such, guides. A brilliant diarist and 'artist'. Nobody
will better him, but will/have tried:-(

CravenBirds

"Memoirs of a Fellwanderer"

"Ex-Fellwanderer"

"A Pennine Journey"

Steve

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz (Author)

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From Siberia to India on foot, escaping from the Gulag, in wartime,

without

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equipment....

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I'm 99 per cent sure this book turned out to be a hoax. Can't remember why I know this. Anyone
else back me up on this?

I read bits of this about 20 years ago, as my dad a paperback copy. Mustard colour I think. Don't
remember coming across the theory that it was a hoax before. Any further info?
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Mike Harding - "Walking the Peak and Pennines" Ditto - "Walking the Dales" Anything by A
Wainwright.

Wainwright! Not really walking books as such, guides. A brilliant

diarist

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and 'artist'. Nobody will better him, but will/have tried:-(

And still pretty useful these days, although usually in a more general sense than orginally
intended (you need to be well aware of what's changed over the years!). They give you a very good
indication of what's likely to be a good route in the Lakes, and what's going to be a tedious
slog. And the "ridge" route description from Green to Great Gable applies even more so now (having
said that, I can't remember seeing anyone between the two the last time I was there).

I've found what's changed over the years in the Lakes, is that everyone uses guides and cause more
erosion than is necessary:-( By following a guide book! Also what does 'Pi** me off are plonkers
using M Phones to have a conversation telling their luv ones where they are etc;-) Or by causing
problems to the MRT's. by the amount of false "life" threatening calls recieved by them that they
have to respond to:-(

Long-lived the Scottish Highlands, where peace and quite still reigns, but that seems to be
getting worse.

CravenBirds

How about the least best walking books?

My suggestions are:

Craig Caldwell - Climb every mountain - because of the lack of variety and it just doesn't grip.

Alasdair Dibb - England's highest peaks - because it is neither a handy pocket sized guide nor an
inspirational read - and as for the photos - well...

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I'm 99 per cent sure this book turned out to be a hoax. Can't remember

why I know this. Anyone else back me up on this?

I googled it and came up with this:

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which seems to me to lay out the possibilities of hoax pretty well. Whether fact or fiction, it
still remains a grand walking book, and if fiction, much of it has that air of verisimilitude which
is beyond meagerly talented writers of straight fact. Another talented writer who has done good
walking stuff is Vilhjalmur Steffanson whose books are probably long out of print but who would
reward a library or second-hand bookshop search.

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A sometimes lurker here. I've just finished John Hillaby's 'Journey Through Britain' and loved

every

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page of it. I read Hamish Brown's Groats End Walk and really enjoyed that too. So, which are your
favourite walking books. Or in other words, which should I be looking out for next!

Mat Wilson

Mountain days and bothy nights - absolute classic for and about the ordinary walker / climber.

And of course Muriel Gray (the TV presenter) - "50 without a beard". 50 being her Munro count
at the time.

The chapter "upon going into a climbing" had me absolutely incapable with laughter.

hywel