Review
As well as a celebration of an exceptional area of countryside, this quietly moving and impressive book examines all aspects of the area's history, including wildlife, ecology, geology and culture. A serious and thorough study, it is particularly good on the problems facing the region, and makes a good case for protecting the upland peat bogs. Anyone with an interest in this part of England should read this book. --The Sunday Telegraph, 1st June 2008
With an intriguing premise, which enabled the author to walk the length of the Pennines without getting his feet wet, this book sets out to follow Britain's watershed... Bibby is keen to point out how the activities of man here do impact on the area - and the world's climate. The carbon-setting properties of peat, the right to roam, and the politics of killing crows all come into it --The Independent, 28 March 2008
Andrew Bibby's enjoyable style and broad knowledge left me with many new insights into some of our most treasured landscapes. --WALK Magazine, Spring 2008
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Forty years ago I walked the Pennine Way from the Dark Peak to the Cheviots, and found solace and inspiration in the fragile peat-covered landscape of these wide sweeping moorlands. In this wonderful book Andrew Bibby does something more. He not only helps us to savour the Pennine landscape; he helps us to understand it, and he urges us to cherish it. He shows us how this land was formed, what has happened and is happening to it, and - in a thoroughly un-preachy kind of way - why it matters. This is a book of enjoyment and of revelation. -
Chris Smith, Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, President of the Ramblers' Association and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Chris Smith, Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury )
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