Clear Waters Rising [Paperback]A Mountain Walk Across Europeby Nicholas Crane
Usually ships within 8 to 10 working days Description of Clear Waters RisingAlone - though he was just married - and on foot, Nicholas Crane embarked on an extraordinary adventure: a seventeen month journey along the chain of mountains which stretches across Europe from Cape Finisterre to Istanbul.With only an umbrella for company, he tramped along the Pyrenees, and crossed the Covennes in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson. In winter he climbed over Mont Blanc and the Alps, then through the forested Carpathians and Balkan ranges, surviving storms,a drought and one-hundred-year-old maps. Shepherds, cheesemakers, gunslingers, an anti-social brown bear and a prostitute who couldn't take 'no' for an answer were among the characters he encountered on an epic walk which revealed some of the darker legacies of Europe's history. This classic account is both an astonishing tale of endurance and a celebration of the people and landscapes that exist on the periphery of the modern world. Title Information
Press and Industry Reviews'A remarkable achievement...I enjoyed it immensely'- Bill Bryson 'One of the liveliest and most enthralling travel books I have read for years: observant, funny, evocative and illuminating' - Miranda Seymour in the Sunday Times 'A masterpiece that must surely lift him into that rare category inhabited by Stevenson, Thesiger, Fleming, Leigh Fermor...great book about a great walk' - Christopher Brasher in The Times Write a review of this book About Nicholas CraneNick Crane lives in London NW1. He is the author of several travel books and has been published in the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Guardian.Contents of Clear Waters Rising1. Beginnings2. The Sierras 3. The Pyrenees 4. The Cevennes 5. The Alps 6. The Carpathians 7. The Balkan Ranges |
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