The Wild Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain's Footpaths

by Mike Parker

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780007448456
Publisher:	Collins
Publication date:	03/28/2012
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Mike Parker has had a varied career, which at one point saw him working as a stand-up comedian. He has been widely published and also presents various travel programmes for radio and television. His books to date include the Rough Guide to Wales as well as several other guide books. He writes freelance travel pieces for most of the UK papers, including the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Mirror.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

On Map Addict:'Mike Parker offers an exhilarating celebration of the humble map.' Mail on SundayThis excellent book on the pleasures of maps and navigation, which is also a withering attack on the infantilisation of the satnav age’. Daily Telegraph‘A highly engaging and thoughtful, haphazard and personal, meander around maps and map-related arcane.' Daily Mail'This eclectic, funny and warm book should be on the shelves of everyone who has spent hours staring at a map.' The Great Outdoors'A witty entreaty to leave the satnav in the car, and to head for the hills with the Ordnance Survey.' BBC Country File magazine‘Parker proves a witty and engaging guide’ Guardian‘Mike Parker makes of a book about footpaths a wonderfully exhilarating literary excursion on and off a hundred beaten tracks’ – Jan Morris CBE , historian, author and travel writer‘Mike Parker’s book on footpaths is a genuine page-turner’. – Walk Magazine

Editorial Reviews

On Map Addict:

'Mike Parker offers an exhilarating celebration of the humble map.' Mail on Sunday

This excellent book on the pleasures of maps and navigation, which is also a withering attack on the infantilisation of the satnav age’. Daily Telegraph

‘A highly engaging and thoughtful, haphazard and personal, meander around maps and map-related arcane.' Daily Mail

'This eclectic, funny and warm book should be on the shelves of everyone who has spent hours staring at a map.' The Great Outdoors

'A witty entreaty to leave the satnav in the car, and to head for the hills with the Ordnance Survey.' BBC Country File magazine

‘Parker proves a witty and engaging guide’ Guardian

‘Mike Parker makes of a book about footpaths a wonderfully exhilarating literary excursion on and off a hundred beaten tracks’ – Jan Morris CBE , historian, author and travel writer

‘Mike Parker’s book on footpaths is a genuine page-turner’. – Walk Magazine

From the Publisher