Christopher Somerville Livres

HARBOURS AND COASTAL VILLAGES (COUNTRY S.) (Map)

This revised and expanded edition covers walking in Britain, from long-distance paths to leisurely day walks. Maps, planning advice, accommodation and transport recommendations accompany each route.

A new collection of walks from one of Britain's best-known walking journalists and currently Walking Correspondent for The Times.

Presents information on Ireland's culture, history, and people; offers walking and driving tours enhanced by color-coded maps; and suggests excursions off the beaten path.

Illustrated with 160 photographs and 20 full-colour maps, this guide to Costa Rica takes you through this varied and alluring country. It includes full-spread, mapped walking and driving tours, three-dimensional illustrations, and a section of detailed visitor information, including the author's picks of hotels and restaurants.

National Geographic Ireland, Second Edition provides in-depth information on Irish history and culture, along with practical travel advice for getting around the enchanted isle. From the cosmopolitan streets of Dublin to the horse-racing stables of County Kildare, from the fabled Ring of Kerry to the Yeats Country surrounding Sligo Town, from a walking tour of Dingle Way to a self-guided drive through the Sperrin Hills of Northern Ireland, from mountain moorlands to eerie bogs, this new edition guides you to memorable attractions throughout Ireland's many storied regions.

A tour of the coastline of the British Isles revealing how natural wonders and historic events have shaped the lives of coastal communities, highlighting the relationship between Britain's coast people's lives.

75 years on from the end of the second world war, a unique collection from veteran Commonwealth voices who tell how the war changed their lives irreversibly and blew the British Empire apart. 'Vivid reading' Telegraph

_________________ 'Something close to divine inspiration' - The Times When Christopher Somerville, author of the The January Man ('a truly wonderful, uplifting book, bursting with life' - Nicholas Crane), set out to explore Britain’s cathedrals, he found his fixed ideas shaken to the roots. Starting out, he pictured cathedrals – Britain possesses over one hundred – as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among favourites old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the building of these massive but unstable structures, the masons whose genius brought them into being, the peasant labourers who erected (and died on) the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows, the impact of the Black Death, the Reformation and icon-smashing Puritanism, the revival brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and the hope and disillusion of two world wars. Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven.

Walking has never been a more popular pastime and nowhere is more beautiful for walkers to explore than Ireland.