Download The Wild Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain’s Footpaths AudioBook Free
Mike Parker, best-selling writer of Map Addict, is back with a very full, clever and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject matter - footpaths and the annals of land possession. Mike discovers how these paths have grown to be part of the cultural landscape and just why, at the sensitive time of 44, he out of the blue finds himself at a crossroads. Provocative, funny and personal, this e book celebrates Britain's unique and astonishing network of footpaths. It examines their chequered and remarkably turbulent history, from the Enclosures Functions of the 18th hundred years to the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; and from the hard-won post-war establishment of great Country wide Paths 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 storyline ranges far and wide, to all sides of the country and beyond, and is also filled with the countless individuals that Mike engages with on the way - the poets and designers, farmers and ramblers, landowners and Privileges of Way officers and campaigners, historians, archivists and other people who crosses his avenue (or even will try to stop it).
