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\nThis is a new collection of 200 walks in every corner of Britain and Northern Ireland, taken from Christopher’s ‘A Good Walk’ weekly column in The Times. Unfortunately Harper Collins have given this new book exactly the same title – ‘Britain’s Best Walks’ – as the previous one they published in 2016! However, there are plenty of stunning new photographs to enjoy, including the very eye-catching cover of the Seven Sisters cliffs in East Sussex. As for the walks themselves, about 150 have never appeared in book form before, and the rest are popular favourites from Christopher’s 2016 collection. <\/p>\n

‘I’ve walked every step of these rambles,’ says Christopher, ‘from the toe of Cornwall to the outermost tips of the Scottish islands, the mountains of Wales and the dramatic coasts of Northern Ireland. I’ve found pleasure and fascination wherever these 200 walks have taken me, and I know you will too.’<\/a>\n<\/td>\n

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\nWalking the Bones of Britain is the story of a thousand-mile journey through the rocks and landscapes of the British Isles, unrolling over three billion years. It starts in the Outer Hebrides at the northwest tip of Scotland among the most ancient rocks in the land, formed in fire and fury when the world was still molten. And it finishes a thousand miles away in the southeast corner of England, where nature and man are collaborating to build new land.<\/p>\n

In between, an incredible journey along footpaths and byways, moving from melted rock to volcanic upheaval, the clash of continents, mountain ranges rising and falling, seas invading and retreating, lands ripped apart and oceans snapping shut. In the evidence of the rocks under our feet and the landscapes around us we find life forming and flourishing, snuffed out by crashing asteroids, sent packing by ice sheets a mile thick, flooding back by land and sea.<\/a>\n<\/td>\n

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\nIn my workroom is a case of shelves that holds 450 notebooks. Their pages are creased and stained with mud, blood, flattened insect corpses, beer glass rings, smears of plant juice and gallons of sweat. Everything I\u2019ve written about walking the British countryside has had its origin among these little black-and-red books.<\/p>\n

During the lockdowns and enforced idleness of the Covid-19 pandemic, I began to revisit this rough treasury of notes, spanning forty years of exploring these islands on foot. The View from the Hill pulls together the cream of this well-seasoned crop, following the cycle of the seasons from a freezing January on the Severn Estuary to the sight of sunrise on Christmas morning from inside a prehistoric burial mound. In between are hundreds of walks to discover randy natterjack toads in a Cumbrian spring, trout in a Hampshire chalk stream in lazy midsummer, a lordly red stag at the autumn rut on the Isle of Mull, and three thousand geese at full gabble in the wintry Norfolk sky.<\/a>
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\nOur War Paperback \u2013 Unabridged
\n\u2018Our War – How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War\u2019 tells the extraordinary story of the men and women of the British Commonwealth, from many nations all over the world, who volunteered to fight alongside Britain during World War Two.<\/p>\n

How did people of all kinds, races, religions and ways of thinking come together like this? Why did young men and women from Trinidad and Australia, India and Canada, Seychelles, Kenya and New Zealand put themselves at risk thousands of miles from home? Why did they feel so strongly attached to Britain, the \u2018mother country\u2019? And how were their lives and attitudes changed by their experiences?<\/p>\n

From the jungles of Burma and the night skies over Berlin to the icy waves of the Arctic convoys, the blitzed streets of London and the hellish PoW camps of Borneo and Poland we follow them. Survivor\u2019s guilt, immense pride, PTSD, stoicism and bitter anger: all these are here, in the words of people who never dreamed they would find themselves at the cutting edge of war.<\/p>\n

I travelled round the world in the nick of time to catch the experiences of these elderly survivors of many nations. This is the one and only only record of their service and its aftermath.<\/p>\n

\u2018Our War – How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War\u2019, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 16 April 2020 in paperback and audio.<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nShips of Heaven<\/em> \u2013 The Private Life of Britain\u2019s Cathedrals is the story of Britain\u2019s flotilla of cathedrals, tossed on waves of power and glory, scandal and mayhem for a thousand years. Nowadays these great stone ships seem as solid and unshakeable as any Rock of Ages. But they are leaky old vessels in uncharted waters. They creak and groan, they fail and founder, then resurface against all odds. Theirs is a thrilling saga of crisis and boldness, of ruin and revival.<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nThe January Man (paperback edition)
\nThe January Man<\/em> (shortlisted for Wainwright and Richard Jefferies prizes) – Christopher\u2019s much-praised account of a year\u2019s walking and nature watching in Britain, out in paperback.<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nThe January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder\u2019s \u2018The January Man\u2019. Christopher describes the circle of the seasons around the British Isles, each month in its own unique setting – January in the winter floodlands of the River Severn where he grew up, March in the lambing pastures of Nidderdale, May amid the rare spring flowers of Teesdale, June along towering seabird cliffs on the remote Shetland island of Foula, September among the ancient oaks of Sherwood Forest. Flowers and birds, sensational landscapes and remote corners of country, winter and rough weather, shepherds, musicians and farmers, Robin Hood and the Green Man \u2013 they\u2019re all here in this powerful evocation of the countryside, its treasures and secrets, and its cycle of life, death and rebirth.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a>The walks and landscapes of The January Man are interwoven with meditations on the relationships between people of Christopher Somerville\u2019s post-war generation and their reticent fathers. Christopher\u2019s father John, a senior civil servant at the secret GCHQ establishment in Cheltenham, never spoke about his work or his wartime experiences. But he was a great walker during his lifetime, and it was through walking and talking that he began to open up to his son as they drew closer to one another. As he walks the land through the cycle of the seasons, ten years after John\u2019s death, Christopher comes to appreciate and understand the man that his father really was, as he reflects on the circle of his life.<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nTimes Britain\u2019s Best Walks<\/em> (paperback edition)
\nTimes Britain\u2019s Best Walks – 200 walks all over these islands, this paperback edition offers the cream of Christopher\u2019s long-running \u2018A Good Walk’ column in The Times.<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nAt long, long last! – 200 of the best of Christopher\u2019s ‘A Good Walk\u2019 walks from The Times, gathered between covers. Lovely photos (many by Christopher\u2019s wife Jane), maps, detailed directions, where to eat\/drink etc., how to get there – and of course, Christopher\u2019s lyrical descriptions of landscape, nature, history and people.
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Traveler Ireland
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\n\u2018This book and Map was amazing!! It had EVERTHING on it. I took 4 guide books with us; Rick Steve’s, Ireland for Dummies, Back Roads of Ireland, and this one. I never used any of the other books but this one. It have everything we needed and more. The other books seemed to be promoting areas that were not that great, This book highlighted some of the most amazing places that were off the beaten path of the main tourist areas.\u2019 \u2013 Amazon review of 3rd edition by \u2018Samantha\u2019, 1 July 2014.
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Somerville’s 100 Best Walks
\nHooray! Haus Publishing have produced a new paperback of ‘Somerville’s 100 Best Walks’, a collection (first published in 2009) of some of the best walks I did during my 17-year stint as Walking Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. Entitled ‘Somerville’s 100 Best British Walks’, the new version (in weatherproof laminated covers) is smaller, lighter and more handy, but still contains all the walks complete with their wonderful hand-drawn illustrated maps by Claire Littlejohn.
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Where To See Wildlife In Britain And Ireland
\n\u2018Where To See Wildlife \u2026\u2019 brings together the very best places you can see wildlife in Britain and Ireland \u2013 826 of them, from famous national nature reserves to local sites, hillsides, woodlands, marshes and mountains.<\/a><\/p>\n

The wildlife of the British Isles is just about the most diverse and fascinating in the world for such a small archipelago. Chalkhill blue butterflies, early purple orchids, golden eagles, spawning salmon, otters, thousands of insects and fungi \u2026 We value and admire these beautiful creatures and plants \u2013 but where can we actually find them? Where, near your house or your holiday cottage or campsite, can you go to smell a fragrant orchid, see a rare large blue butterfly mating, or hear the roar of a rutting stag or the babble of ten thousand dunlin on a tideline? \u2018Where To See Wildlife \u2026\u2019 tells you exactly where.<\/a><\/p>\n

Each of these sites is individually and evocatively described, and enhanced with how-to-get-there directions, conservation designations, and information on facilities, refreshments and much else. Superb colour photos and maps, too.<\/a><\/p>\n


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Traveler Great Britain
\nA new edition (the 3rd), part of the very highly respected National Geographic Traveler series, which I’ve updated and enhanced with lots of ‘Experience’ and ‘Tips’ panels – how and where to experience everything from watching a cricket match to joining in a Scottish ceilidh, hunting for Ice Age flora to taking a guided walk in Snowdonia.
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The Golden Step
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Walks in the Country near London
\nNew and improved – 25 walks from railway stations (4 of them new, all of them re-walked – thank you for your help, Ruth!) in the beautiful countryside just outside London. Kentish apple blossom, Surrey lanes, Buckinghamshire beech woods, Essex wildfowl creeks – they’re all here.
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Somerville’s Travels’ (AA Publishing – see below), Christopher’s account of 20 journeys at slow pace through Britain from Land’s End to Shetland, has been reissued as an ebook with a new and maybe better title – ‘Slow Travels Around Britain’. Here’s your chance to kick back with Christopher on your Kindle!
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Britain and Ireland’s Best Wild Places
\n‘A gloriously idiosyncratic guide … Reading him, you want to get out, get walking, get looking’ (Robert Macfarlane, Sunday Times)
\n‘Brilliant and heartfelt … magnificent … an extraordinary work’ (Sunday Telegraph)
\n‘An excellent survey .. informative and poetic’ (Financial Times)
\n‘Utterly charming … a wonderful book and elegant reference guide’ (Irish Times)<\/a><\/p>\n


\n<\/a><\/a>That’s what the critics said about Christopher’s best-selling guide to 500 wild excursions, ‘Britain and Ireland’s Best Wild Places’. Now it’s out in paperback!
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Never Eat Shredded Wheat, Christopher’s acclaimed gallop through the Geography of the British Isles (complete with Pub Quiz, naturally), is out in paperback! Here’s what the critics said:<\/a><\/p>\n

‘This is geography not as a dry academic subject full of jargon and terminology, but as the natural history of a living, evolving landscape.’ (Economist )<\/a><\/p>\n

‘This neat and engaging book will remind you of the geography of our green and pleasant isle, and, aside from anything else, will ensure you are never without the correct fact again’ (The Oldie )<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Let’s lift our heads from the flat, mechanical, simplistic world inside the video screens and feast our five senses on the earthly delights of real geography where it rules supreme: out there.’ (Sunday Express )<\/a><\/p>\n

‘An amusing and informative read.’ (Sunday Telegraph )<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Packed with a wealth of information – making it a must for fans of pub quizzes. And it’s good to know someone else was taught that Great Britain looks like an old lady riding a pig’ (Press Association )<\/a><\/p>\n

‘This book is brilliant…you will find explanations and descriptions of every nook and cranny of our nation.’ (The Sentinel )<\/a><\/p>\n


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Walking has never been a more popular pastime and nowhere is more beautiful for walkers to explore than Ireland. In this beautifully written and superbly researched guide, Christopher Somerville draws on his very popular column for the “Irish Independent”, to present 50 of the very best walks in Ireland – from the Nephin Beg Mountains in Sligo in the North to Dingle Way in Kerry in the South. Practical instructions for the walks are married with evocative and informative passages on the history, flora and fauna, culture and topography of the land. Whether it’s exploring the Burren in its floral glory or seeing the Walls of Derry, or even sitting at home in your armchair planning your next walk, this book will prove popular with walkers, holiday makers and anyone who loves the Irish landscape.<\/a><\/td>\n

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I’ve written Never Eat Shredded Wheat for everyone who – like me – found schoolroom Geography a boring parade of facts and figures, or who has forgotten most of what they did learn, or who has come to rely so heavily on Sat Nav that they’ve stopped noticing the landmarks that make our wonderful country such a pleasure to explore. We are so insulated from the real world when we’re in the car, plane or train, so plugged into iPods, stereos, CDs, phones and laptops, that we are in danger of becoming the best-travelled and worst-orientated Britons ever known. Let’s reconnect with the Geography of our islands – their look and feel, what made them and shaped them, where everything is, and why it’s there. Let’s celebrate the journey, and let’s arrive enriched and bewitched, with all our five senses tingling!
\nNever Eat Shredded Wheat takes you exploring the coasts and islands, the rivers and rocks, the cities and counties of Britain, from the Thames Estuary to the Irish Sea and from Rockall to Land’s End. It’s packed with facts and stories, anecdotes and jokes and ‘did-you-know’s. There’s a huge, 200-question Pub Quiz to test your knowledge and get one up on your friends. And the whole book is delightfully illustrated with maps and cartoons by my long-term collaborator Claire Littlejohn.<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nThis book tells the story of 20 journeys- mostly on foot, but also by bicycle, branch line train, bus, narrowboat and ferry – across very special areas of Britain. Here are remarkable landscapes, travelled by the unfrequented ways that reveal their unique characters – the ancient Cornish coast wrapped in mist, the South Country downs threaded by the oldest road in Britain, post-industrial Birmingham and Stoke explored by canal, the Cheviot Hills on the tracks of cattle-thieves, musicians and murderers, the Shetland Isles and the northernmost point of our idiosyncratic archipelago. Illustrated throughout with colour photos, most taken by Christopher on his journeys.<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nChristopher Somerville has been walking, exploring and writing all over the world for 30 years, and as the Walking Correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” has written the “Walk of the Month” for over 15 years. This is his selection of his 100 favourite walks. They are to be read individually, as they are a true traveller’s observations of people, places, moods and reflections as they strike him. As a collection, they take the reader on a vivid, moving and unforgettable adventure through Britain, from the A of Angus Glens to not quite the Z but at least Y of York City Walls.<\/a><\/td>\n

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I have had the pleasure of writing the text, the captions and a long poem for this pictorial journey round the coast of Britain by way of sublime aerial photos by Adrian Warren and his wife Dae Sasitorn. These have to be seen to be believed – some of the rock, estuary and shoreline shots are more like collages or sculptures than photos. A real work of art, and it was a tremendous challenge for me to find the words that would enhance rather than weigh down such \/images. ‘The Living Coast’ is published by Adrian and Dae’s publishing house, Last Refuge.<\/a><\/td>\n

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Christopher’s acclaimed account of his end-to-end walk through Crete is now out in paperback!<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nMy second collection of poems – 100 of them, all inspired by my travels over the past 10 years. Thank you, Haus Publishing, for taking this on! It isn’t just a solid block of indigestible poems – here are notes and comments to give the context in which each poem was written, so that readers who’d normally run a mile at the thought of reading poetry can enjoy these, while the mystery and magic inherent in poems stays intact.
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\nThis is a keenly-anticipated treasury of a book, illustrated with over 150 colour photographs and hand-drawn maps, the fruit of Christopher’s 30 years of exploring out-of-the-way places all over Britain and Ireland. Here are 500 Wild Places – overgrown city cemeteries, stormy cliffs and mountains, old quarries filled with orchids, ancient woods loud with nightingales, remote isles off the coasts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Lyrical descriptions combine with practical where-to and how-to instructions to make this a unique, indispensable guide to the Wild in these islands in all its forms, out in the wild blue yonder or right there on your doorstep.<\/a><\/p>\n

NB – one of the 500 doesn’t really exist! Can you spot which it is? Visit www.penguin.co.uk\/static\/cs\/uk\/0\/callofthewild\/<\/a> to see how you can win a prize … !<\/td>\n

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\nThe Golden Step: A Walk Through the Heart of Crete (Haus Publishing 2007) The story of Christopher’s 300-mile walk from end to end of the magical Mediterranean island of Crete – across some of the toughest mountain terrain in Europe, among some of the world’s most fiercely hospitable people.<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nCoast – The Journey Continues Following the smash hit success of COAST, this new book accompanies the second and third BBC TV series, exploring new regions and uncovering yet more fascinating stories around our British and Irish coasts (BBC Books 2006)<\/a><\/td>\n

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Coast – A Celebration of Britain’s Coastal Heritage Accompanies the major television series (BBC Books 2005)<\/a><\/td>\n

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\nThe Story of Where You Live – Uncover the history of your home, neighbourhood and countryside (The Reader’s Digest Association Ltd)<\/a><\/td>\n

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OUR WAR – How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War
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AA Key Guide Ireland (AA Key Guide 2005)<\/a><\/td>\n

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Ireland (National Geographic Traveler 2005)<\/a><\/td>\n

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Britain’s Most Amazing Places (The Reader’s Digest Association Ltd)<\/a><\/td>\n

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Walks in the Country Near London (Globetrotter Walking Guides)<\/a><\/td>\n

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THE SPIRIT OF RURAL IRELAND
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AAA BRITAIN TRAVEL BOOK (2001 – Edition)<\/td>\n

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AA SPIRAL IRELAND (AA Books 2000)<\/a><\/td>\n

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EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT – collection of poems (Rockingham Press 2000)<\/a><\/td>\n

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AA BOOK OF BRITAIN’S WALKS (1999 – contributions)<\/a><\/td>\n

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER BRITAIN (National Geographic\/AA Books 1999)<\/a><\/td>\n

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OUR WAR – How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1998)<\/a><\/td>\n

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AA EXPLORER CRETE (AA Books 1995)<\/a><\/td>\n

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COUNTRY WALKS NEAR LONDON (Simon & Schuster 1994)<\/a><\/td>\n

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DAILY TELEGRAPH WEEKEND WALKS (Pan Books 1993)<\/td>\n

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THE ROAD TO ROARINGWATER – A Walk down the West of Ireland
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THE GREAT BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE (David & Charles 1992)<\/td>\n

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WELSH BORDERS (George Philip 1991)<\/td>\n

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THE BEDSIDE RAMBLER (Harper Collins 1991)<\/td>\n

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THE OTHER BRITISH ISLES (Grafton 1990)<\/td>\n

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ENGLISH HARBOURS & COASTAL VILLAGES (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1989\/93)<\/td>\n

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BRITAIN BESIDE THE SEA (Grafton 1989)<\/td>\n

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COASTAL WALKS IN ENGLAND AND WALES (Grafton 1988)<\/td>\n

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SOUTH SEA STORIES (WH Allen 1985)<\/td>\n

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TWELVE LITERARY WALKS (WH Allen 1985)<\/td>\n

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WALKING WEST COUNTRY RAILWAYS (David & Charles 1982)<\/td>\n

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WALKING OLD RAILWAYS (David & Charles 1979)<\/td>\n

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This is a new collection of 200 walks in every corner of Britain and Northern Ireland, taken from Christopher’s ‘A Good Walk’ weekly column in The Times. Unfortunately Harper Collins have given this new book exactly the same title – ‘Britain’s Best Walks’ – as the previous one they published in 2016! However, there are […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}