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by uzwi
Now the dust has settled I can see that my 70th birthday books haul includes: A Philosophy of Walking, Frederic Gros; Henk Van Rensbergen’s superb Abandoned Places; The Illiterate, Agota Kristoff; The Slate Sea, poems & photographs, ed Paul Henry & Zed Nelson; Britain & Ireland’s Best Wild Places, Christopher Somerville; Dusk, Axel Hoedt; and The Near Death Thing by Rick Broadbent, interviews with Manx TT riders. To help me navigate this complex territory I have in addition a 1930s quarter-inch map of North Wales & Manchester. I’m going to start by running Gros & Broadbent concurrently.
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I liked the Gros book very much – his musings on walking and freedom (personal or otherwise) are something I can relate too.
Happy reading – and walking!
Now that is what I call a reading list. Happy Birthday, catch you up in a few years. Meanwhile, hang tight. But the ads- wtf?
I suppose midway between Gros and Broadbent is Steve Chilton’s It’s a Hill, Get Over It: Fell Running’s History and Characters. I find TT racing slightly less terrifying than fell running, tbh.
Hi Richard: good point.
A good haul. Belated happy birthday!
Thanks, Mat J.
Genuinely mysterious: the Broadbent is listed by amazon as ‘#1 in Leeds United’. They have a category for Leeds United. And _this_ is number one in it.
Many happy returns, Mike. Checking astrology.com, there’s a warning over energy levels for Leo: “Just because you’re not ‘feeling it’ early in the day doesn’t mean that it won’t show up later.”
So good luck with that …