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The one and only guide to every col and pass in the British Isles, for cyclists, walkers, and armchair travelers. A col is the lowest point on the saddle between two mountains. Graham Robb has spent years uncovering and cataloging the 2,002 cols and 105 passes scattered across the British Isles. Some of these obscure and magical sites are virgin cols that have never been crossed. Dozens were lost by the Ordnance Survey and are recorded only in ballads or monastic charters. The 11 cols of Hadrian's Wall are practically unknown and have never been properly identified. These under-appreciated slices of natural beauty provide a new way of looking at British history, and a challenge for cyclists and walkers.
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Graham Robb is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France.
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"A wonderful writer . . . No one else so relishes the odd corners of history." —Sunday Times
"He is such a warm, gentle and generous writer, with no faux scholarly tosh or solitary ecstasy riffs." —Evening Standard
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- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1846148731
- ISBN 13 9781846148736
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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