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The Islands is one of six titles in the best-selling Highlands and Islands series by Nick Williams. Shortlisted for a British Book Design Award 2005 and a Scottish Thistle Award for Travel Journalism 2005, this is the perfect book for anyone who loves the Scottish hills.
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The Pocket Mountains series is written by Nick Williams, an experienced climber and walker who has taken part in mountain expeditions around the world.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a pocket sized inspiration,
By Lesley Jones (Cardiff, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Islands (Pocket Mountains) (Paperback)
This pocket mountain series are great inspirations to walking in the Scottish hills. I've used several but am reviewing this one as I have walked over half the routes in this book (and all the Western Isles ones except Ben More on S Uist where the weather has never played ball). The routes tend to be brief but accurate and no-one would contemplate doing them without map and compass anyway. This book is really excellent where there are few routes that have paths all the way as the important features are pointed out - many of the walks in this book are in that category. These books suggest walks that one might otherwise not contemplate or know about in areas not visited regularly and the author includes walks that are more strenuous and off the beaten track than many of the other walking guides. You very quickly get used to Nick Williams' style and his euphemistic descriptions of the possible hazards (a description that reads "some exposure" is fine, anything more than that is too adventurous for me). His estimates of timings for walks are consistent (we find our timings similar to his generally). My personal favourite of those I've completed in this volume is Tirga Mor in the North Harris hills - three of the best views in Scotland to be had on this walk on a fine day - and on the two occasions I've done this walk, in beautiful weather on both occasions, not another person was seen apart from my partner. The other walk that is a bit of a revelation is Ben Tianavaig just outside Portree - not very big and only a half day walk but fantastic views both close up and at a distance. So thanks Nick for enhancing several holidays in the Scottish highlands and islands.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book.,
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This review is from: The Islands (Pocket Mountains) (Paperback)
This is an excellent book (actually the whole series is, this is my 4th). It truly is pocket sized so it's not a burden to carry. It's obvioulsy been written by people who like to travel light. I refer to them throughout my walks. These books have made me walk more. Highly recommended.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good ideas, but brief descriptions,
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This review is from: The Islands (Pocket Mountains) (Paperback)
I bought the book in order to get some ideas for walks which we might do during 2 days on Skye and then 7 on Harris (and Lewis). Clearly the book covers a far greater range than can be done in the time we had. In the "Skye and Ramsay" section we did walk 1 (Secrets of the Quiraing, taking 2hr 15min against the 2hr par time suggested), walk 4 (The Old Man of Storr, 3h 30m against par of 4hr), and we attempted walk 5 (Mcleod Mountain Feast) - but took the suggested escape route after competing the two McLeod Tables as I found it tough going, even though there isn't much climb required.
From "The Outer Hebrides" section(i.e. on Harris), we did a variation of walk 2 to scale Tirga Mor (which we enjoyed), and we managed walk 4 (Road to Reinigeadal, taking 6h 30m against a par of 6hr), and we completed (but didn't enjoy) walk 5 (On the Toe Head machair). Overall I would suggest that it is a very good book for suggesting a variety of medium to long walks. It seemed to us that the shorter walks had less challenging par times than the longer ones, and that you would have to be pretty fit to beat the par times of the longer walks. Some of the walks are highly enjoyable but others were not(!), which made me wonder whether the author was looking (for instance on Harris) to give coverage to all parts of the island rather than just identify the good walks. Also, the descriptions of the walks are necessarily brief since the format only provides 2 A6-size pages per walk, including a map and a picture. If I were going to Skye and Harris again I would be happy to use the book to identify possible walks, and then seek more detail from other sources. Should you go to other more detailed sources first? Well, possibly.
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