Having the skills of navigation at your disposal is a liberating experience. Getting away from crowds, inventing your own routes, discovering new areas, and perhaps most importantly giving yourself the confidence to do it, is all part of making your outdoor experience more enjoyable.

This comprehensive guide to navigation is aimed at giving you the incentive to do this. With the author's own anecdotes and handy hints close by, those new to using the map and compass, and those who have already mastered navigational skills, will find this guide inspiration enough to 'get out there' and experience the outdoors safely and with fun. Including navigation techniques and the types of tools available it is fully illustrated with the author's own photographs and OS and Harvey mapping.

Pete Hawkins trained as a geography teacher and taught in schools for a year before escaping to the Peak National Park's Environmental Centre for an outdoor job. He took over map and compass training and has since written for a variety of outdoor magazines. He now leads walking holidays around the world from his base in the Peak District.

This important new all colour book represents a major new approach to developing the necessary navigational skills to explore the freedom of the countryside confidently. It focuses on map reading using the new OS Explorer and Outdoor Leisure mapping. Step by step treatment of the essential techniques of map reading, compass use and route finding is enhanced by the use of map extract and photo comparisons.

Only with a good understanding of maps and by using them correctly can anybody truly experience the quiet exhilaration and freedom of walking the centuries old paths, bridleways and green lanes that criss-cross Britains' beautiful and often remote open countryside. Julian Tippett teaches navigation skills and advises both the RA and the National Navigation Award Scheme.

Mountain Navigation is the definitive instructional work for anyone who wants to learn how to navigate in the mountains. Peter Cliff has distilled his vast experience into an easily understood and concise manual, and it is because he writes from such valid experience that this book is so admirably and markedly superior to anything else on the subject.

Learning to navigate is first and foremost a practical task, requiring time spent practising techniques on the ground. However, you will find that this book provides all the background theory and explanation that are so crucial to good, practical navigation. It is concise, uncomplicated and well illustrated with simple, easy to follow diagrams. The mere fact that the four previous editions have sold over 60,000 copies is in itself proof of Mountain Navigastion's status as the reference work on the subject.

To experience the hills at their best and enjoy them fully, whatever the conditions, the walker must be properly prepared, equipped and informed. This manual describes what to wear and how to use the right equipment, how to navigate terrain, scale and traverse the hills, and imparts an overall awareness of the concept of survival. It also includes information on hillwalking photography.

Bill Birkett is one of Britain's leading mountain writers, and an active climber and fellwalker. This manual passes on something of his love, understanding and appreciation of the hills and inspires readers to learn the craft of hillsmanship. This is the second edition of the guide, now fully updated and printed in colour.

The Hillwalker's Handbook contains all the information you need for safe and enjoyable walking and scrambling in the hills, all year round. The book covers where to go; what equipment to take; how to find and follow a route on a mountain; techniques for rope protected scrambling; and equipment and emergency techniques for winter walking. The book is fully illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and line drawings. YHA Magazine has said if this handbook "The best book for mountain walkers wishing to extend their range", and it does indeed blur the traditional boundary between hill walking and rock climbing.

A good idea of the coverage can be obtained from the sixteen main chapter titles, which are as follows: Mountains and Moorland; Basic Equipment; Route Planning; On The Mountain; Map Reading; The Unexpected; Rock Scrambling; Rope Protected Scrambles; Mountains and Moorland in Winter; Equipment for Winter Walking; Movement on Snow and Ice; Emergency Techniques for Winter Walking; Mountain Weather; Mountain Navigation; Mountain Emergencies; Mountain Photography.

This authoritative and comprehensively updated new edition provides all the practical know-how for exploring Britain's finest walking country, from the idyllic Lake District to the wilderness of north-west Scotland. Superb scenery, baggable peaks, quiet villages and comfy B&B's - welcome to a walker's paradise.

More than 60 route descriptions, from day walks to the legendary long distance paths are included. together with accurate two colour maps for every walk. Planning tips include public transport access and the best food and accommodation options along the route.

This guide also provides an invaluable succinct source of expert advice on equipment, responsible walking and safety on the trail. There is also a useful illustrated guide to Britain's flora and fauna. In fact, this book will prove invaluable to all walkers who venture into the hills.

Christopher Somerville takes us on a journey of discovery through Britain and Ireland, spanning their length and breadth as he seeks out 500 of his favourite wild places in fields and green lanes, in forests and mountains and on lonely coasts, in all of nature's moods and every kind of weather.

Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places is the key to discovering Scottish mountainsides covered in rare Ice Age flowers, Cornish standing stones and holy wells, Midlands wildflower meadows, storm-battered Welsh headlands and seabird islands, hill ranges and bog-lands in Ireland where only hares and skylarks go. But this adventurous book roams far beyond conventional landscapes. Among its wild treasures are medieval Green Men spewing mouthfuls of leaves, the ruins of haunted chapels deep in forgotten woods, old mines and quarries being recaptured by nature, villages where pagan rituals are still enthusiastically observed, and rusting sea-forts tottering on sandbanks. Each wild place is enhanced with mapping and travel instructions, suggestions about walks and other useful information.

Britain and Ireland are crammed full of wild places, often astonishingly close to home. Here is one man's poetical yet practical account of the state of wild Britain and Ireland, how it is being both threatened and nurtured, and how (whether you are heading for a Sunday stroll or planning your next holiday) you can go out and discover it in all its extraordinary vigour and variety.

This is not a walking guide with detailed route instructions, but by describing these wonderful locations, it is a resource that will provide a lifetime's ideas for walking weekends and holidays. It includes travel information on how to reach each location, OS map references and a system based on symbols to let you quickly identify the characteristics of each location. Wherever you plan to be in Great Britain and Ireland this book will give you great suggestions of places to walk and is a good investment in countless pleasurable days out in the countryside. You really will be spoilt for choice as you flick through the 500 plus pages of diverse wild places you could visit. Having made a choice, you can then devise walks in detail using an OS Explorer map.

If you walk regularly in the countryside it is extremely usuful to be able to predict the likely weather from observation of the sky; if you enjoy hillwalking this skill becomes a necessity to ensure you make the right decisions for the safety of yourself and other walkers for whom you may be responsible. Apart from safety, however, an understanding of weather systems, like understanding the landscapes you walk through, all adds to the pleasure and satisfaction of a day outdoors with nature.

Even given the enormous technological break-throughs that satellites and radar have brough to the weather forecaster, accurate predictions remain, by nature, without total certainty. Meteorology is an inexact science where fate holds the trump card. Yet, with an understanding of the basic weather systems and of why certain skyscapes occur, it is often possible to add personal observations to the overall situation, as supplied by a professional forecast, to arrive at a more accurate local forecast. This is the objective of this book.

By the use of beautiful colour photography and skilful use of colour diagrams, the reader will soon understand what is happening to the elements about him. Predictions of wind, rain and temperature can then be made with some rationale.

LDP's included are: Kerry Way; Pennine Way; South Downs Way; Ridgeway; North Downs Way; Viking Way; Offa's Dyke; Thames Path; Peddar's Way and Norfolk Coast Path; West Highland Way; Pembrokeshire Coast Path; South West Coast Path; Dales Way; Ulster Way; Coast to Coast; Cotswold Way; Wicklow Way; Cleveland Way; Ribble Way; Dingle Way; Southern Upland Way; Speyside Way; Fife Coastal Path; Glyndwr's Way; Cambrian Way: Cumbria Way; Essex Way; Heart of England Way; Greensand Way; Hereward Way; Hadrian's Wall; Wye Valley Walk; Oxfordshire Way; Wealdway; Yorkshire Wolds Way; Shropshire Way; Staffordshire Way; Two Moors Way; Beara Way; Vanguard Way; Tarka Trail; Western Way; Wayfarer's Walk; Wessesx Ridgeway; Icknield Way; Macmillan Way.

This annual directory is a goldmine of information for walkers, providing everything needed to plan a trip to the countryside. The main body of the book is a listing of accommodation where walkers are welcome. Listed by location, many entries are on long distance routes or in remote rural areas and include B&B's, self catering, hostels, bunkhouses and campsites. There are also many useful listings such as pubs and tearooms, walking holiday companies, long distance paths, walking guides (most of which can be purchased from this walking pages bookshop), walking groups and other useful contacts.