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  • The Coast is Our Compass: A pilgrimage along the world's longest coastal path

    by Martyn Howe ...
    Why do we walk? Why do we like to be beside the sea? And what happens when you infuse these questions into a journey around the coast of England – a pilgrimage in search of art, culture, community and glorious natural wealth along the world’s longest managed coastal path? Extending well beyond the confines of a walking memoir, The Coast is our Compass addresses all this and more.Getting outdoors, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales from the Big Trails

    A forty-year quest to walk the iconic long-distance trails of England, Scotland and Wales

    by Martyn Howe ...
    'I am already planning the next adventure. The wanderlust that infected me has no cure.' It all started in Fishguard in the mid-1970s when, aged fifteen, Martyn Howe and a friend set off on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path armed with big rucksacks, borrowed boots, a Primus stove and a pint of paraffin, and a thirst for adventure. After repeating the route almost thirty years later, Martyn was inspired ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • One Man and His Bike

    A Life-Changing Journey All the Way Around the Coast of Britain - The Word-of-Mouth Bestseller

    by Mike Carter ...
    What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling?Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta.He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people building for a different ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Microadventures

    Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

    ‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ GeographicalAdventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.So what’s a microadventure? It’s close to home, cheap, simple, short and 100% guaranteed to refresh your ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Pedals, Panniers and Punctures

    One woman, one bike and no backup on a unique End to End Adventure

    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, droughts, smooth cycle tracks, hazardous cattle grids, psychedelic B&Bs and homely hostels. And when ... Read more

    $9.32 CAD

  • On the Slow Train Again

    Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London's commuterland, and travels on one ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Long Cloud Ride

    A 6,000 Mile Cycle Journey Around New Zealand

    by Josie Dew ...
    After two months on board a Russian container ship sailing 15,000 miles across the world, Josie finally arrives in New Zealand with her bike. Over the next nine months she cycles 10,000 kilometres all over North and South Islands while experiencing the wettest, windiest and stormiest year on record. During this time Josie was spat at, shouted at, honked at, and both run off and blown off the road. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Attention All Shipping

    A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast

    The hilarious bestselling travel book that journeys round areas made famous by Radio 4's Shipping Forecast'One of those simple yet brilliant ideas' Daily Mail'Engaging and often very funny' Sunday Times'A wonderfully eccentric study' ObserverThe Shipping Forecast is a curious piece of broadcasting; at once impenetrably baffling yet at the same time reassuringly f... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Bicycles, Boats and Bagpipes

    A Cycle Ride through the Outer Hebrides and the west coast of Scotland

    by julia r may ...
    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! Looking on the bright side he could be responsible for navigating and could take most of the ... Read more

    $9.32 CAD

  • Walking in Ireland

    Walking has never been a more popular pastime and nowhere is more beautiful for walkers to explore than Ireland. In this beautifully written and superbly researched guide, Christopher Somerville draws on his very popular column for the Irish Independent, to present 50 of the very best walks in Ireland - from the Nephin Beg Mountains in Mayo to Dingle Way in Kerry. Practical instructions for the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Heights of Madness

    In 92 days I walked and cycled 5,000 miles and climbed the highest peak of every county in the UK...What was i thinking

    by Jonny Muir ...
    Born in 1981 and raised in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Jonny Muir's early wanderings took him over the Lickey Hills, before he graduated to the giddier heights of the Lake District and Snowdonia. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Cycles and Sandcastles

    by Julia R May ...
    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 stag nights, more stunning beaches, more wildlife, more grave robbers, more railways, more tea rooms ... Read more

    $9.32 CAD