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The Wild Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain’s Footpaths - Softcover

Parker, Mike

 
9780007448456: The Wild Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain’s Footpaths
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0007448457 ISBN 13: 9780007448456
Verlag: Collins, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject – footpaths and the history of land ownership.

Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape and why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds himself at a crossroads.

Provocative, funny and personal, this book celebrates Britain’s unique and extraordinary network of footpaths. It examines their chequered and surprisingly turbulent history, from the Enclosures Acts of the eighteenth century to the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; and from the hard-won post-war establishment of great National Trails like the Pennine Way to the dramatic latter-day battles by the likes of Nicholas van Hoogstraten and Madonna to keep ramblers off their land.

The story ranges far and wide, to all corners of the country and beyond, and is filled with the many characters that Mike engages with along the way – the poets and artists, farmers and ramblers, landowners and Rights of Way officers and campaigners, historians, archivists and anyone else who crosses his path (or even tries to block it).

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mike Parker was born in England and has lived in Wales for half of his life. His first book for HarperNorth, All the Wide Border, was a Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month and Travel Book of the Year. His other books include the bestseller Map Addict, The Wild Rover and On the Red Hill, which was shortlisted and Highly Commended for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing and won the non-fiction Wales Book of the Year Award.

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Verlag
Collins
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0007448457
ISBN 13 
9780007448456
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Collins
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