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Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places : 500 Essential Journeys by Christopher Somerville
Category: Travel
Storm-battered headlands, hidden waterfalls, tumbledown cottages, the ruins of haunted chapels deep in forgotten woods, medieval Green Men, old mines and quarries being recaptured by nature, rusting sea-forts tottering on sandbanks ...Britain and Ireland are full of wild places, some remote, many often ...Show more
Never Eat Shredded Wheat by Christopher Somerville
Category: Travel
Bognor Regis...Aberystwyth...Glasgow...Can you place them on a map? Most people can't these days. What kind of countryside do you pass through on your way to the Cairngorms, or the Fens, or Northumberland? What's north of the Pennines? And what's it like when you get there? Most folk wouldn't have a clu ...Show more
Ships of Heaven ... British Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville
Category: History
When Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, set out to explore Britain's cathedrals, he found his fixed ideas shaken to the roots. Starting out, he pictured cathedrals - Britain possesses over one hundred - as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among favo ...Show more
Ships of Heaven - The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville
Category: History
_________________THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR TRAVELLERS FROM THE TIMES' MUCH LOVED WALKING CORRESPONDENT'Something close to divine inspiration' - The TimesWhen Christopher Somerville, author of the The January Man ('a truly wonderful, uplifting book, bursting with life' - Nicholas Crane), set out to ...Show more
TIMES BRITAINS BEST WALKS 200 CLASSIC WALKS FROM THE TIMES by SOMERVILLE CHRISTOPHER
Category: Travel
The Golden Step: A Walk Through the Heart of Crete by Christopher Somerville
Category: Travel | Series: Armchair Traveller
300 miles, across four mountain ranges, with only a walking stick, compass and basic Greek
The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain by Christopher Somerville
Category: Animals & Nature
'Evocatively written and charming' - CountryfileThe January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that continually bring hi ...Show more
The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain by Christopher Somerville
Category: Animals & Nature
In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again - a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. After teenage rifts it was walking that brought us closer as father and son; an ...Show more
The Times Britain's Best Walks : 200 Classic Walks from the Times by Christopher Somerville
Category: Travel
Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary by Christopher Somerville
Category: History
Blows the dust off geology to tell the incredibly dramatic story of all the upheavals, volcanic explosions, sea inundations and violent quakes that have shaped our landscape, human history and our everyday lives. Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walkin ...Show more
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