Mick Harney

Contour Lines: On the Path to a Thousand Mountains (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mick Harney returns with more unique perspectives on fell and hill walking in Scotland and the English Lake District. He offers a fresh crop of new and compelling insights, including many detailed descriptions of individual mountains, the paths we take to them, and what they reveal to and about us.

Contour Lines contains significant exclusives. Newly unearthed facts and a reinterpretation of the critical moments in Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lake District trek in 1799 exposes the inside story of how Coleridge really became the prototypical fell-walker. The never-before revealed trip-ups Alfred Wainwright made when mapping the boundary of his Lakeland guide lead to intriguing psychological insights into the man and his creation.

There is much to appeal to any lover of the hills. Are you an experienced and passionate walker but tied to a city life? Then you should read about the 'urban peakeys' and see whether their realities and rewards match your own. Have you ever encountered oddly out-of-place people in the mountains, ill-suited for the environment but bizarrely present in the most wild and dangerous of spots? Check out the accounts of some classic waifs and strays.

Running throughout is an account of the inevitable absurdities and sometime successes of Mick's journey to complete his round of the Wainwrights. You are with him as he travels towards the hoped-for goal, bagging the fells he still needs but taking care to respect and learn from each fell as he goes. In little Helm Crag's case, reflecting on its geology, the shape of its parts, and the challenge its summit presents sharpens understanding of the wider world of mountaineering and illuminates an individual's walking history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781465820525
• Artikelnr.: 45458007

Autorenporträt

Mick Harney is a writer, photographer, and walker.

His books on fell and hill walking spring from over 35 years exploring the fells of the English Lake District and the mountains of Scotland. He previously completed two full rounds of the 214 hills in Cumbria famously catalogued by Alfred Wainwright. He has summited over 100 of the Scottish mountains above 3000 feet known as Munros.

Mick's passion for the wilder places, and fascination about our interactions with them, has also led him to investigate, and exclusively reveal, the true story of that most profound of human explorations, the quest for the South Pole.

His poetry has been published in the magazines Dragon, Knee-Deep, and TaC, and won awards in the Lancaster Lit Fest and Vers Poets competitions. He was short-listed for the 2010 Bridport prize. His selected poems are published as Stitches in Time.