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Jools

UK hiker, striving for lightweight while body gets increasingly heavyweight. Working through UK national trails while fitting in local day hikes and other multi-day trails. Walked across mainland UK on five month two thousand mile 'Three Points of the Compass' hike in 2018

A library for ornithologists…

Birds of the Western Palearctic If you can afford them, then anyone that is keen to fill space on their bookshelves with an authoritative set of volumes on the avifauna […]

A library for those who hike in the shadow of giants…

South Ernest Shackleton “For a joint scientific and geographical piece […]

A library for historians…

‘Shire’ publications So far, in this series of posts looking at various books pulled from my book shelves, there have been a number of slim little volumes scattered through the […]

A library for geologists…

Granite and Grit A walker’s guide to the geology of British Mountains Ronald Turnbull “Walking up Slieve Donard from Newcastle, I noticed that the character of the stream had changed […]

A library for naturalists…

Butterflies and Moths I so wish I could remember the species better, there should be some hope for me with the names of the British Butterflies, there are only around […]

A library for botanists…

The Natural History of British Flora OK, so I may not know the name, but I can have a good grasp on the why- Beyond a simple Field Guide, important […]

A library for ornithologists…

T & A D Poyser I have written before on the terrific volumes published by T & A D Poyser. I have probably an uncomfortable number of their volumes sitting […]

A library for those who hike in the shadow of giants…

Alfred Wainwright Alfred Wainwright has arguably done more to popularise […]

A library for geologists…

Philip’s Guide to Minerals, Rocks & Fossils A.C. Bishop, A.R. Woolley, W.R. Hamilton Have you ever picked up a rock, rolled it through the fingers, felt its weight and roughness […]

A library for historians…

Churches Cross the British landscape on any walk and you don’t have to go too far before you either pass a church, or spot the spire of one above the […]

A library for naturalists…

Fungi There are any number of books on fungi, the ones shown here are a good selection and you could do far worse than these. There are also a number […]

A library for botanists…

Those ‘special’ flowers “There can be little doubt that of all European wild flowers few species can rival the indigenous orchids in beauty and variety of form and colour. These […]

A library for ornithologists…

The Bird Collectors Barbara and Richard Mearns This is an engrossing and fascinating book, detailing the early ornithologists from the late eighteenth century to the present. Many of these collectors, […]

Trail talk: Playing with numbers

The Fibonacci Sequence- useful maths for hiking The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers where the next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. A simple […]

A library for those who hike in the shadow of giants…

As I walked out one Midsummer Morning Laurie Lee “I […]

A library for historians…

The British Landscape “to care about a place, you must know its story” Nicholas Crane I could just have easily posted these books under my section- ‘a library for geologists…‘, but […]

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