Description
An overview before you choose your next long hike.
Great Britain has many well-known long-distance trails, but they offer very different experiences. This book brings together 19 selected routes, including the Pennine Way, South West Coast Path, Hadrian’s Wall Path and West Highland Way. This provides a basis for comparing hikes that are otherwise often presented in separate regional guides with entirely different target audiences and requirements.
Stage overviews, maps and profiles in a single book.
Each route is presented with stages and a planning overview showing its scope and structure. Maps and profiles make it easier to see how terrain and distance relate to one another. You can use this to assess a full trail or a shorter section, and see whether it fits the time you wish to set aside for hiking on your holiday.
A book for inspiration and planning.
This is a broader overview work, not a replacement for detailed route guides and hiking maps. Its strength lies in the comparison between trails and the ability to identify a destination worth exploring further. The book therefore works well early in the planning process, and as a source of ideas over several years of hiking, even once the first British long-distance trail has already been completed.
Choose based on more than just the number of days.
Coastline, cultural landscapes and remote moorland place different demands on navigation, equipment and capacity. The guide helps highlight these differences, but current conditions and local information should be checked before booking transport and accommodation. It suits readers who want to find a route matching their own abilities, rather than choosing based solely on name or popularity.
A long tradition of hiking guides.
Cicerone has published guidebooks since 1969. The publisher grew out of a community of climbers and mountain people who wanted to share detailed knowledge of their routes – a tradition that still shapes the publisher’s books on hiking, trekking and other outdoor experiences.
About this edition.
Author: Paddy Dillon. English language. 272 pages. Second edition, published in 2015. ISBN 9781852847883.
