This intensely lyrical and radical 'memoir' of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland was written in the last years of WW2, but only published in 1977. The long-overlooked Modernist novelist an... read more
This intensely lyrical and radical 'memoir' of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland was written in the last years of WW2, but only published in 1977. The long-overlooked Modernist novelist an... read more
The Bulgarian/Scottish writer explores the mountainous fringe of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece along the via Egnatia (which, astonishingly, joined the via Appia to link Rome with Byzan... read more
Breathtaking shots from the Himalayas to the Dolomites, via Africa, Patagonia, Alaska... with suitably lofty quotations (Dante, Byron, Austen, Nietzsche et al) alongside them.
The first two of Pearson's graphic novels reissued in one volume. For anyone who has missed her, Hilda is a valiant young Scandinavian girl with blue hair and a predilection for trolls. Nort... read more
Two men go walking in the Dolomites, but not together; one falls to his death, the other reports the body. Is it coincidence that they knew each other in earlier years, and that one had betr... read more
The Great Game has not changed though the players have: Keay looks at the history of this contested and remote area and at those that have roamed its wildernesses.