My reading diet this year was both broader in subject and more selective in quality than normal. Trekking and the Outdoors featured heavily...

Thanks to  distinguished  reviewers and generous purchasers of   "The Call of the Mountains", helping it climb, at least on Amazon...

“See Rome and die!” While Goethe's words were actually “see Naples and die,” Rome is undoubtedly the more beautiful city. Thus th...

[Charts corrected 13 December] Having compleated the Munros last year and the Furth Munros last week, I was curious to know what company ...

Ireland boasts 13 delectable Furth Munros - a Furth being a mountain outside, or ‘furth’ Scotland but high enough to have been a proper Mun...

This animation shows how the British Isles were created from the collision of two entirely separate tectonic plates, and how Scotland itsel...

T hank you one and all for coming along and packing out Europe's largest bookshop! The video is on the Youtube channel here: The Call ...