Legendary Landscapes

Yet another book by the seasoned master of Britain's land history that is brim-full of story, wonder and fascination. Legendary Landscapes is both a history of place and a self-help manual that inspires its reader to go see for themselves. * Mark Cocker author of The Nature of Seeing *
This intriguing book takes you to a multitude of places you probably didn’t know existed, and tells fascinating stories about them. It celebrates the diversity of landscape and the rich history of our islands in an attractive and readable format. * Kate Ashbrook *

The book is a delight. As a walker, church-crawler and traveller, I thought I knew a lot about our land, but here, in clear prose and brilliant photographs, I have learned how little, in fact, I really knew.
The author has travelled Britain for many years and has written about this island with authority and style, nowhere more so than in this book.

I have always believed that there are stories in the stones of this island and stories under the stones; and there are tales too in the woodlands and the waterways. All we have to do is listen. From sacred springs and wells to stone circles and the sites of battles real or mythical the stories come.

The author has gathered them and told them anew, so that I know now about the man who lived a mile or so further north up the valley of Ribblesdale, where I am writing this, who pushed a wheelbarrow full of sunshine; and I know now the story of the tragic death at Hengist Head of Charles Rolls of Rolls Royce fame.

Years of travelling and walking and listening went into the making of this book. I sense it will become a modern classic.