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The Hike (Paperback)

by Don Shaw (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Ebury Press; New edition edition (6 April 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091908752
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091908751
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 135,464 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'Funny, warm and elegiac - Last of the Summer Wine meets A Year in Provence' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'A masterpiece... had me crying with laughter' The Express"


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"a minor classic...charming memoirs" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Charming Amble Through Life & The Peak District, 24 April 2006
By A. H. Hulme - See all my reviews
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The Hike by Don Shaw is a tale of the exploits of three retired, but never elderly, gents during their weekly Peak District Hikes.

You don't need to have ever pulled on a pac-a-mac or pair of walking boots to enjoy the warmth of their gentle and genuine friendship. Peak District novices and the more experienced will find the inspiring beauty, history and drama of the area evocatively shining from the page.

Amidst their weekly treks throughout the area they conduct a winsome quest for the meaning of life and ways to stretch time to avoid ever reaching the point of getting old. Enduring the physical effort of the hike, they take inspiration from the landscape, the weather, and the selection of characters they encounter on the way.

The book is a delight from page one and draws you in over the course of the year through which the story is told, so that by the September chapter it is a sad realisation that the year, and the story, will eventually come to a close.

The three main characters are well drawn and you find yourself genuinely concerned for them at points of high drama and laughing out loud with them at some of the situations in which they find themselves. Not a guide book, high drama or sitcom, the book is a warm tale of the joy of life with its dramas, happiness, sadness and characters.

A pleasant read at just over 200 pages, The Hike captures the splendour of the area and the life it imbues in those that visit. Impossible to read without a smile.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Hike - superb, 23 April 2006
This book was a revelation, funny, warm, at times sad, everything that Sir Ranulph Fiennes said it was on the front cover.I had to stop reading at chapter ten because I couldn't bear to think I would reach an end, so I've left it for a year to read again - all of it! It's hilarious and moving. A friend of mine has read it eight times however! I'd rank this book as one of the best I have ever read - and I read a lot! Wonderful. Highly recommended, especially if you're over fifty, but I hear that younger people like it too. A terrific read.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, insightful and evocative, 1 May 2006
By R. Cross "Cross Words" (Nottingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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Pay no heed to the (very occasional) carping critic. In truth, 'The Hike' is an entertaining, witty and frequently insightful read. Populated by richly drawn and thoroughly plausible characters, and set in instantly recognisable Peak District locations vividly brought-to-life on the page, the trials and travails of this trio of long-time hikers is full of perceptive reflections on the nature of friendship, the ageing process and the unpredictablities of life. Neither twee nor cosily sentimental, 'The Hike' is an engaging and diverting tale of the triumphs and tribulations of the doggedly persistent hill walker's life, full of both laugh-out-loud exchanges and frequent moments of genuine emotional warmth. Highly recommended.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars light read, good fun
A fun book about walking in the peak district, it has interesting facts and historical facts.
Published 3 months ago by Ms. J. E. Ainsworth

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad
Badly written - if I hadn't been looking for GK clues I wouldn't have got beyond the first chapter, really tedious.
Published 5 months ago by J. Morgan-Roger

2.0 out of 5 stars Laugh out loud - I think not!
I was hoping to enjoy this book after reading the reviews but sadly it left me cold. I am an experienced hill walker and know the Peak District well but the story was at times... Read more
Published on 25 Jul 2007 by Road Rocket

4.0 out of 5 stars Summer Wine in book form
This is essentially Last of the Summer Wine in book form. As with the long-running TV series, it concerns the antics of three retired gentlemen: Phil, the control-freak walk... Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2007 by Bad Bear

4.0 out of 5 stars The Hike by Don Shaw
The book is a humorous account of the walks in the Derbyshire Dales enjoyed by The Author and his two companions. Read more
Published on 30 April 2006 by Simon Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars Three Men On A Hike
THE HIKE has been compared with LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE and A YEAR IN PROVENCE, but its real literary ancestor is Jerome K Jerome's classic comic itinerary novel THREE MEN IN A... Read more
Published on 28 April 2006 by Michael Booth

1.0 out of 5 stars The Hike? More like The Hype!
Bought this book because the reviews and the publicity hype surrounding it was excellent, unfortunaletly the book wasn't. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2006 by alexander grainger

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