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The one and only guide to every col and pass in the British Isles, for cyclists, walkers and armchair travellers, now in portable paperback
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Graham Robb is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. He lives on the English-Scottish border (and within a day's ride of one hundred and seventy cols).
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If you have legs, or a bicycle, or indeed both, you are going to love this book...The work that has gone into this small, vast, perfectly formed and beautifully bound thing is quite incredible. * Spectator * Don't pass up the chance to discover 2,002 ways to route plan across Britain -- Roger Cox * Scotsman * A wonderful writer . . . No one else so relishes the odd corners of history * Sunday Times * He is such a warm, gentle and generous writer, with no faux scholarly tosh or solitary ecstasy riffs * Evening Standard * A delicious and hypnotically fascinating masterpiece of squinty-eyed fanaticism -- Stephen Bayley * Spectator Books of the Year * It's more than a mere compendium of geographical data, Robb's warmth and passion for the subject offers a refreshing take on reading the landscape of the British Isles - and a different way of thinking about cols in general * Sb Nation *
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0141981458
- ISBN 13 9780141981451
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- Number of pages192
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