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Sinclair McKay. Ramble On: The story of our love for walking Britain
Sinclair McKay. Ramble On
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. Edale to Kinder Scout: The Peak District and the First Modern Rambling Battle
CHAPTER 2. Rannoch to Corrour Shooting Lodge in a Howling storm: An investigation of the Lure of Wilderness, and the Earliest Days of Organised Rambling
CHAPTER 3. Dorking to Box Hill: Introducing Jane Austen, and the Subsequent Rise of the Victorian Walking Club
CHAPTER 4. A Swift Detour: To Briefly Examine Walkers as Deviants, Outcasts and Fugitives – and as Doomed, Wandering Souls
CHAPTER 5. A Day Out Among The Tors and Mires of Dartmoor: The Prototype National Park
CHAPTER 6. Seatoller to Haystacks, Underskiddaw to Dodd Point: The Lake District and the Cults of Wordsworth, Wainwright and Withnail
CHAPTER 7. Rhossili to Llanrhidian: In the Gower Peninsula to Consider the Surprisingly Long History of Walking Gear – While Wearing Quite Unsuitable Clothes
CHAPTER 8. Higham to Cooling: The Hoo Peninsula, North Kent, in Search of Beauty in Ugliness
CHAPTER 9. A Brief Detour into the Lures and Attractions of Walking at Night
CHAPTER 10. Exploring the Preternatural Forest of Dean and Woodland Legends – While Examining the Beguiling History of Youth Hostels and B & Bs
CHAPTER 11. A Quick Detour Through Regenerated Cities and the Art of Urban Rambling
CHAPTER 12. In the Steps of Tom Stephenson Along Britain’s Many Ways – and Paying Tribute to Generations of Self-Taught Botanists
CHAPTER 13. Wendover to Princes Risborough: Chilterns and the History of Trespass, Via Some Very Private Property
CHAPTER 14. Warminster to Battlebury Fort, Salisbury Plain – an Effort to Reach England’s Inland Atlantis
CHAPTER 15. A Diversionary Walk on the Weird Side: A Brief Flit from Ley Lines to Stone Circles to Pan
CHAPTER 16. Exploring the Lures of Solitude and Dodging The Grey Man of Ben Macdhui
CHAPTER 17. A Day Out in Brontë Country – What Happens When Much-Treasured Walking Landscapes Become Theme Parks
CHAPTER 18. Recent Furious Countryside Battles: The Patches of Forbidden Land that Remain and an Unsuccessful Attempt on the River Path at Windsor
CHAPTER 19. From Chilham to Canterbury along the North Downs Way: The Future of Walking and of the Countryside Rolled into one Ancient Pilgrimage
ENDNOTES
FURTHER READING
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Other Books by Sinclair McKay
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