Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #305426 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

Synopsis
Offers 26 assorted walks with a selection of sights and delights to tempt even the most confirmed "cityphile" beyond the urban limits. The routes cover areas such as the Antonine Wall, the Forth and Clyde Canal and the West Highland Way, all accompanied by the author's photographs.

Customer Reviews

Encouragement to use your legs
An excellent little guidebook which will stimulate your interest in getting out and about. It offers 26 walks in and around Glasgow, encouraging you to escape the city centre and stretch your legs. There are walks here to suit everyone - you can even combine some light exercise with a quiet pint or even a meal.

Hunter contributes notes on local history, wildlife, and the landscape - a reminder that walking exercises the brain as well as the body. In a car you have little time or opportunity to appreciate the world around you: on foot, you are part of that world ... and you get a chance to value time and enjoy it, not pray that it will pass quickly. And there's a benevolent agenda in Hunter's book - if you can enjoy a couple of miles walking on a Sunday, it might stimulate you to start walking to work during the week. Walking is healthy, weight reducing, relaxing, and good for both the environment and your community.

'Best Pub Walks Around Glasgow' is one of a series of excellent walking guides provided by Sigma Press. If you don't live in Glasgow or visit it often enough to make use of Hunter's book, take a look at the Sigma website (www.sigmapress.co.uk) where you will find a superb range of walking guides covering the length and breadth of Britain.

Fun and informative
If you have a spare afternoon in Glasgow this book will help to give you an unforgettable day. The walks are interesting, well thought out and the book keeps you interested throughout,