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For one season in 1983, the sport of fell running was dominated by two people: John Wild and Kenny Stuart. They only determined who was top by a few seconds in the last race of the season: this is the story of that season.

Describes the complete traverse of the Munros (mountains in Scotland attaining a height of 3000 feet) in a single journey. This book discusses the intricacies and challenges of the journey and also the history of the area.

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Includes bibliographical references (p.175-176) and index.

An account of the first completion of all the summits of the Munros, despite the trials of winter weather.

For decades now, Martin Moran has made his living as a mountain guide based in Strathcarron, Wester Ross. The Scottish hills have by no means bound or defined him though. It was after his ascent of the North Face of the Eiger that he made his decision to take the mountain guide qualifications.

Through the centuries doctors have developed not only knowledge and experience, but also an understanding of feelings, emotions and ethical issues: the Science and the Art. Kenneth Calman's A Doctor's Line is based on the idea of a 'commonplace' book for professionals, the public and patients.

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A detailed history of the sport of fell running, which tells the stories of some of the great exponents of the sport through the ages. From its early days to it going global with the World Championships, it profiles athletes such as Fred Reeves, Bill Teasdale, Kenny Stuart, Joss Naylor, and Billy and Gavin Bland.

A history and description of the Pacific Crest Trail through the western states of America

A warm and inspiring account of fulfilling a teenage dream of climbing the Old Man of Hoy, despite losing his sight, from househusband, crime writer and occasional radio personality Red Szell.

A brilliant and successful advertising director finds his imagination fired by a set of characters he calls The Zoo as his life disintegrates around him. The way back to sanity, the wife and son he's lost, might lie behind the fantasy.

Author Jo Uddermann has published an autobiographical novel about certain dark events in his past. Expectations run high both in the publishing house and the media, but after an appearance on television sinister things begin to happen: anonymous letters, Barbie dolls with their heads cut off, dead squirrels on the stairs in front of his house. His life with his wife and daughter in Oslo no longer feels secure. Someone is out to get them.

A biography and study of W.H. Murray, one of Scotland's most distinguished climbers in the years before and after WWII. With a foreword by Robert Macfarlane.

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The stories of dogs who have worked alongside the military in Afghanistan. Reveals their extraordinary heroism and action-packed lives.

This provocative book on conservation and the outdoors from one of Britain's leading walkers and writers will both provoke and illuminate the wild land debate.

London, 1810. In Vere Street is a house where men assemble to indulge passions for which the age will hang them. A raid on this notorious tavern sees the city gripped with hatred of Mollies, coupled with suspicion of their political sympathies.

As a child, growing up in Belfast in the 1950's, Monica Connell spent the summer holidays in Donegal. In the 1990's, by now an anthropologist and author, she returned to Donegal with her husband. Gathering Carrageen is the story of that return.