Bathurst D. The Big Walks of Great Britain

Summersdale Publishers, 2007. - 448 p.Despite the increasingly sophisticated range of leisure pursuits and interests available to us, walking still enjoys huge popularity as a form of recreation. At its most basic, it may consist of a stroll around the block to walk off an excessively large Sunday lunch. Real devotees, however, will head for the hills or the mountains every weekend whatever the weather, clad in the most expensive equipment, only happy when they have completed their regulation twenty-fi ve miles for the day, and regarding anyone content with less as a sad couch potato. Whatever their degree of devotion, most walking enthusiasts will agree that it is nice to have an objective to aim for. It may just be the windmill on the hilltop above the town which rewards its visitors with a beautiful view
on a clear day. It could be a high mountain that requires several hours’ toil and effort to reach the summit or the desire to walk further in a single day than you have ever done before, or simply the desire to put as much distance as possible between yourself and your neighbours’ Saturday afternoon barbecue party.