Description
| Product ID: | 9781783529018 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Ring the Hill |
| Authors: | Author: Tom Cox |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, The countryside, country life: general interest, Travel writing, The countryside, country life, Travel writing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Sunday Times bestselling author Tom Cox writes around, and about, nine types of hill, taking each as a starting point for one of his inimitable explorations ''Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving . . . It made me want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps'' Stephen Fry ''Beautiful, funny, fascinating, impossible-to-categorise . . . Like going on a great ramble with a knowledgeable, witty, engaging friend. Tom Cox brings magic to the most mundane of subjects'' Marian Keyes ''Sheer bloody genius . . . I loved it. Then I loved it more'' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked ‘Quite A Lot Of Hills’ where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are. Ring the Hill is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill – whether it’s a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump – as a starting point for one of Tom’s characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations. Tom’s lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead. |
| Imprint Name: | Unbound Digital |
| Publisher Name: | Unbound |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-04-16 |
