10% off all books and free delivery over £40 - Last Express Posting Date for Christmas: 20th December
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

The Wild Rover

View All Editions

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review Look Inside

About

The Wild Rover Synopsis

Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject - footpaths and the history of land ownership. Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape and why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Provocative, funny and personal, this book celebrates Britain’s unique and extraordinary network of footpaths. It examines their chequered and surprisingly turbulent history, from the Enclosures Acts of the eighteenth century to the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; and from the hard-won post-war establishment of great National Trails like the Pennine Way to the dramatic latter-day battles by the likes of Nicholas van Hoogstraten and Madonna to keep ramblers off their land. The story ranges far and wide, to all corners of the country and beyond, and is filled with the many characters that Mike engages with along the way - the poets and artists, farmers and ramblers, landowners and Rights of Way officers and campaigners, historians, archivists and anyone else who crosses his path (or even tries to block it).

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780007448456
Publication date: 29th March 2012
Author: Mike Parker
Publisher: Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 336 pages
Genres: Walking, hiking, trekking
Travel writing
The countryside, country life: general interest
Autobiography: adventurers and explorers
Social and cultural history
Memoirs
Human geography