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4th Dec 2017 North Wales Bouldering
I can safely say that this is the biggest climbing guide I have yet reviewed. At 668 pages it's a mighty tome that comes with a hefty price tag of £36.95. It may sound expensive, but it's...
16th Nov 2017 Exploring Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way
I've been reviewing guide books by Wild Things Publishing for a few years now, but they have by no means cornered the market. David Flanagan and Richard Creagh have produced a lovely guide to...
4th Oct 2017 100 Hut Walks In The Alps - Cicerone
Cicerone have an army of guidebooks to adventurous stuff in Europe (they do cover other parts of the world too, but Europe is their main focus). This guide is a welcome addition to our...
2nd Oct 2017 The Push - Tommy Caldwell
I've grown out of the habit of reading books about famous climbers so it was with trepidation that I started reading The Push. I felt as though I knew enough about tommy Caldwell's life through...
29th Sep 2017 Wild Guide To The Lake District & Yorkshire Dales
If you read my reviews you'll know that I am a big fan of Wild Things Publishing. They started out with Wild Swimming and have since gone on to produce a whole raft of other titles, the latest...
25th Sep 2017 Via Ferratas Of The French Alps
Via Ferratas are perhaps one of the oldest forms of adrenaline-based mountain activity. However they weren't originally designed with pleasure in use. Originating in the Italian Dolomites they...
26th Jul 2017 Bikepacking Guidebook by Wild Things Publishing
Full title: Mountain Bike Camping Adventures On The Wild Trails Of Britain By Laurence McJannet At this year's Sheffield Adventure Film Festival there were enough films submitted on...
12th Apr 2017 Wild Swimming Walks - Dartmoor & South Devon
Following hot on the heels of my review a few days ago of the equivalent book on wild swimming walks in and around London this guide is a little more in keeping with the ethos of wild swimming....
6th Apr 2017 Wild Swimming Walks - London
The full title of this book is: Wild Swimming Walks - 28 lake, river and seaside days out by train from London Wild Things Publishing have released a series of very good and very...
1st Mar 2017 The Bond - Simon McCartney
I've avoided reading any books about mountaineering for a while. Impressive though the feats are I began to find them following a pattern. It's no fault of the authors, but there are only so...
22nd Feb 2017 The Scottish Bothy Bible by Geoff Allan
Another gem from Wild Things Publishing, this is the second book on bothy's to have been released in the last year. Whilst the former, The Book Of The Bothy, featured a selection of bothies all...
20th Feb 2017 Wild Garden Weekends - Guidebook
I has been a pleasure to delve into this beautifully illustrated book and leaf through the beguiling examples of what has to be described as ‘Secret Britain’. Obviously, when reviewing...