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About the Author

Alan has trekked and cycled in over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australasia, and for 17 years led organised walking holidays in several European countries. A member of the British Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, he has written more than a dozen guidebooks, several on long-distance mountain routes in France. His longer solo walks include a grand traverse of the European Alps between Nice and Vienna (2430km/1510 miles), the Pilgrim's Trail from Le Puy to Santiago de Compostela (1545km/960 miles) and a coast-to-coast across the French Pyrenees (870km/540 miles). His cycle tours include Land's End to John O'Groats, and several long European rides in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Holland. A Munroist and erstwhile national secretary of the Long Distance Walkers Association, Alan now lives at the foot of the Moffat Hills in Scotland, in the heart of the Southern Uplands.

Alan has been exploring the French Massif Central for over 20 years, since his first visit to the Velay and Cévennes in 1988, to research the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson a century earlier. He has walked many hundreds of miles of the region's trails, including the GR4, as well as circular tours of the Velay, Cévennes, Mont Lozère and Mont Aigoual, and long trails in the Causses. In addition to the Grand Traverse of the Massif Central (GTMC), Alan has also toured the Massif Central by bicycle as part of a 2400km (1500 mile) cycle tour around France.

Other Cicerone guidebooks by the author

Walks in Volcano Country (Auvergne and Velay, France)

Walking the French Gorges (Provence and the Ardèche)

The Brittany Coastal Path

Walking in the Ardennes

The River Rhine Trail

Walking in Bedfordshire

The John Muir Trail

The Southern Upland Way

The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail

The Tour of the Queyras