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The Speyside Way runs for 66 miles along good paths beside the River Spey from Aviemore to Buckie on the Moray Coast. Together with a 20-mile extension back to Newtonmore it makes a perfect easy week's walking holiday. Included in the book are prologue routes from the source of the River Spey, making a 118-mile route from the Monadhliath Mountains to the coast at Buckie. The connecting routes the Dava Way and the Moray Coast Trail are also described step-by-step in this guidebook, as well as the...

With pieces drawn from the Telegraph's Travel, News and Obituary pages from the present right back to the earliest days of the paper, this loosely themed anthology brings together the very best writing from (or sometimes, about) the most celebrated travel writers, alive or dead. Pieces about Britain's long-distance National Trails, from the first - The Pennine Way - to the most recent, The Wales Coast Path, rub shoulders with descriptions of Europe's GR20 around Corsica and America's Appalachia...

Lonely Planet’s Best Day Walks Spain is your passport to 60 easy escapes into nature. Stretch your legs away from the city by picking a walk that works for you, from just a couple of hours to a full day, from easy to hard. Marvel at the Pyrenees, hike along the Mediterranean coast, and experience island walks in Mallorca. Inside Lonely Planet’s Best Day Walks Spain Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Special features - on Spain’s highlights for walkers, kid-friendly walks, accessib...

On 26th April 2014 Huw kayaked away from Anzac Cove at Gallipoli, Turkey, taking the next three months to navigate around the coasts of Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, and Croatia. Following this, he spent three months walking the full length of the European Alps, taking on Mont Blanc, at 4810m Europe's highest mountain, in the process. Having left the Alps behind, he biked through Southern France and across Spain before paddling his sea kayak along the coast of Andalucia to Gibraltar and a...

An English-language guide to walking in the mountains to the north of Madrid, mainly but not exclusively within the National Park of the Sierra de Guadarrama. In this book, the third one in the Spanish Trails series, Phil Lawler and Tim Price present descriptions and sketch maps of 32 walks in the mountain ranges to the north of Madrid. It will be surprising to many people to find mountains rising to over 2,400 metres (alsmost 8,000 feet) within one hour of Spain's capital city. The mountains...

Outdoor enthusiasts W. C. McRae and Judy Jewell share their extensive knowledge of coastal Oregon, from the best places to grab a seaside snack to the most scenic hikes along the Coastal Trail. McRae and Jewell also outline a variety of suggested travel strategies, including Riding the Pacific Waves, Foraging the Coast, and Coastal Road Trip,a 10-day itinerary for a tour of the entire coast. With endless options for inn-hopping and surfing along the state's southern beaches, Moon Coastal Oregon...

'I've discovered that going for a daily walk has become as essential to me feeling good for the rest of the day as that first cup of tea. But I would argue that all I am doing is responding to a natural need we all have. Humans have always been migrants, the physiological urge to be nomadic is deep-rooted in all of us and perhaps because of that our brains are stimulated by walking. I solve all sorts of problems, formulate ideas, work things out to that gentle rhythm of self-propelled...

A new photographic guide in the popular "Impressions" series, "Impressions of The Chilterns" showcases the best of the region with stunning photographs of the landscapes, settlements and people that make this nation unique. With carefully chosen images of the highest quality, the book provides an evocative and appealing picture to this beautifully picturesque and interesting region, celebrating the culture, people and architecture along the way.

The Roanoke Times calls Leonard M. Adkins "a great hiking writer," and for this edition of Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Southern Virginia he has thoroughly updated all of the hike descriptions. Working in concert with the administrative personnel of the many national forest ranger districts, state parks, national wildlife refuges, wildlife management areas, and national parks, he re-hiked many of the trails, and four of them are so completely different that they qualify as entirely new outings....