Ring the Hill Hardback
by Tom Cox
Hardback
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'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 MeadowlandA 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Unbound
- Publication Date:03/10/2019
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- ISBN:9781783528356
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Unbound
- Publication Date:03/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781783528356