Product Description

This walking guide provides readers with all the information they need to plan and enjoy a walking holiday of up to 95 miles along the West Highland Way, from Glasgow to Fort William. It provides contacts for accommodation services, but does not list actual addresses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53294 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-13
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 64 pages

Synopsis
The West Highland Way is Scotland's most popular long-distance walk, running 95 miles from Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, through its first National Park, across the western Highlands to the foot of its highest mountain, Ben Nevis. This is the third and fully revised edition of the popular rucksack-friendly guidebook. It contains all you need to plan and enjoy one of the world's finest walks. This book: includes detailed route description; offers background on Loch Lomond, history and wildlife; offers a map of the entire route in 6 drop-down panels (1:100,000); provides practical information about transport and travel; is lavishly illustrated, with 70 colour photographs; and is printed on waterproof paper.

From the Publisher
This fully waterproof format has been designed for walking in the Scottish climate. The mapping (scale 1: 100,000) was specially commissioned to show route and walker information, the transport and other information has been carefully researched and presented, and the book is lavishly illustrated with over 50 professional quality photographs.

About the Author
Jacquetta Megarry is a professional author and publisher, whose career up to 1999 focused on education and training. As an enthusiastic walker she created the Rucksack Reader format in 2000.

Customer Reviews

When walking the Way, this book was my bible
When walking the West Highland Way, this book was my bible. With its drop-down map, lots of information on history, geology and wildlife and masses of photos, it's all you need in one handy package. The waterproofpaper is a great idea. I've used my book twice in all weathers over 4 years,and it's still in good condition.Dont leave home with out it

up to date
Have recently done whw using this guide.
Book is tough enough to survive 8 days in rucksack.
Information is acurate and up to date, but would suggest new walkers check amount of up and down on each leg.
Some days are more strenuous than they appear from the guide.

Good in some ways. Bad in others
While this book is pretty good for a basic map and gives a lot of information about certain things (luggage couriers, highly detailed [albeit mostly unnecessary] guide to the walking) it is woefully inadequate in other respects. For example there is very little to suggest any difference between Kinlochleven and Altna Feadh. On the map they are marked identically and there is no text on either. Kinlochleven is a relatively large town with multiple YHs, pubs, a chip shop etc. Altna Feadh is a car park.

We went and ended up doing little sections here and there and for this the book was next to useless. If you stick rigidly to your plan and stop at places that are detailed in the book you will be fine.

Having said that I have no idea what the other guidebooks are like.