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Wild
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.95A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe?and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with... more...
Learning To Breathe
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into Grimethorpe pit. But at weekends Andy escaped from the pithead to a very different world - testing his nerve on the cliffs and mountains around Britain,... more...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Atria Books 2004; US$ 15.00One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer... more...
The South West Coast Path
Cicerone Press 2010; US$ 18.89A guidebook to walking the South West Coast Path National Trail. The route measures 1015km (630 miles) from Minehead to Poole along the north Devon, Cornish, south Devon and Dorset coastline. Divided into 45 day-stages, the walk could be completed within four weeks. With accommodation advice and local information. more...
Wild
Atlantic Books Ltd 2012; US$ 13.11At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon,... more...
Walking
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 4.95If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again, - if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk. Walking is an essay by American writer, naturalist and philosopher David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).... more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Walking for Health
Alpha Books 2000; US$ 16.95You?re no idiot, of course. You?ve been meaning to get on track to a happier, healthier life, and you?ve heard that walking burns the same amount of calories as jogging. But your path, while paved with good intentions, is also filled with roadblocks?like too little energy, or too many unwholesome distractions ? Lace up your sneakers! The Complete... more...
Training for Life
Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99Celebrity fitness trainer Debbie Rocker is one of the original developers of Spinning, the international fitness phenomenon, and a world record holder in cycling. In TRAINING FOR LIFE, Rocker shows readers how to use walking, the body's most natural form of exercise, to achieve total transformation in a mere two weeks. She presents her personalized... more...
Via Ferratas of the Italian Dolomites
Cicerone Press 2008; US$ 18.89Guide to Via Ferrata routes in Italy's Southern Dolomites, in the major mountain ranges of Civetta, Schiara and Pala as well as those to the west in the Brenta. Via ferrata climbing -- using routes with fixed cables -- is a great way for walkers and scramblers to get to places usually reserved for expert rock climbers. more...
Walking in Croatia
Cicerone Press 2010; US$ 20.42Mountain walking and trekking guide to Croatia, Europe with walks in the Dinaric Alps (Gorski Kotar and Velebit), Istria, Slavonia, the islands (Peljeöac, Korcula, Mljet, Hvar, Brac, Loöinj and Cres) and around Zagreb. 26 routes from easy day walks to treks and via ferrata over varied terrain. Includes full background information and hut... more...









