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Main Index : Walking and Climbing Guides : Walking Guides : Walking Guides for France : France: Various Regional Walking Guides Walking in France (Ref. Code. 1 74059 243 3) Savour the delights of rural France far from the autoroutes and the TGV. This book reveals a wealth of trails linking nature's tranquil oases, pastoral villages and epicurean pleasures - all at walking pace. N.B. Please choose 'Books #-# days' when in the checkout to specify the correct shipping criteria.  Click here for more...   Price:  £14.99  Quantity: Lonely Planet Walking in the Alps (Ref. Code. ISBN 1 74059 395 2) Iconic peaks reflected in tranquil mountain lakes, sweeping hillsides blanketed in wild flowers and dramatic, sprawling glaciers characterise the Alps. Discover why this mighty range, the birthplace of modern mountain walking, has enthralled walkers for centuries    Price:  £14.99  Quantity: Rough Guide The Pyrenees (Ref. Code. ISBN 1 84353 196 8) The Rough Guide to the Pyrenees is the most comprehensive handbook to the region, covering both sides of the range from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. Features include: - full colour section introducing the mountain's highlights - informed accounts of all the sights, from the gorges of the Basque country to the Romanesque churches of Catalunya - discerning reviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink, at all price levels - practical accounts of the most popular sporting activities, including skiing, walking and climbing, river-rafting and parapenting - authoritative features on the history, cuisine, festivals and wildlife of the Pyrenees - maps and plans for every region    Price:  £12.99  Quantity: Cicerone Pyrenean Haute Route (Ref. Code. ISBN 1 85284 426 4) The Pyrenean Haute Route id probably the most beautiful, spectacular and challenging walk in the Pyrenees, and has become one of the classic walks in Europe. Unlike the GR10 and GR11 the Haute Route leads the trekker through landscapes of immense variety and impeccable beauty. - 800km of spectacular and challenging trekking through the highest and best of the Pyrenees - the unwaymarked route described in 42 day trails - 70 pages of mapping and route profiles, plus outstanding photography - practical information on villages, mountain huts, guest-houses, hotels and campsites - variant routes and the ascents of ten classic summits    Price:  £15.00  Quantity: Cicerone Walking in the French Alps: GR5 (Ref. Code. CICERONEFRAL) Fully updated second edition prepared in 2000. The previous edition has been the best-selling and leading guide to the route for many years. Extensively illustrated with maps, and black and white and colour photos. One of the world's leading long-distance trails, through the Alps from Lake Geneva to the Meditarranean - a mere 660km (400miles).     Price:  £11.00  Quantity: Cicerone 100 Hut Walks In The Alps (Ref. Code. CICERONE100HUTWA) Located amid some fo the most beautiful scenery in Europe, the chain of mountain huts strung right across the Alps make exciting and worthwhile destinations for walks of all degrees of seriousness as well as a memorable overnight's accommodation. Huts come in all shapes and sizes from simple unmanned bivouac shelters to bustling mountain inns with hot showers and restaurant service, where walkers and climbers can enjoy a degree of comfort without the burdens of backpacking equipment.     Price:  £12.99  Quantity: Cicerone The GR10 Trail: Through the French Pyrenees (Ref. Code. ISBN1852843640) This classic long distance walk across the Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean takes a lower route than the more arduous Pyrenean High Route. Nevertheless it passes through striking mountain country and gorge scenery. The easy ascent of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau is described as an excursion. The route takes about 50 days to complete but the author divides it into sections conveniently tackled in a fortnight's holiday, with details of accommodation and transport. There is invaluable practical information for British walkers visiting France for the first time. The GR10 is one of a number of official long distance paths (Grandes Randonnées) in France. The GR system is very extensive and some 25,000+ miles (40,250+km) of footpath have been designated and waymarked. Each GR route has been allocated a number. The GR 10 runs from Hendaye on the west coast through the mountains of the Pays Basque, Béarn and Hautes Pyrénées to Luchon. From here it continues generally in an easterly direction to pass the sparsely populated Ariège, then across the Pyrénées Orientales to end on the Mediterranean coast at Banyuls- sur- Mer. The total distance is some 538 miles (866km).     Price:  £12.95  Quantity: Cicerone Walking the French Gorges (Ref. Code. CICERONEFG) A trail through Provence and The Ardeche. Provence and Ardeche offer some of the most delectable walking in all France. This guidebook describes a 320 mile route, in 26 daily stages, from the Cote d'Azur to the Massif Central, including a trek along dramatic Grand Canyon of the Verdon, and an ascent of Mont Ventoux, the highest summit in mainland France outside the Alps and Pyrenees. Full of variety, the walk visits Provençal mountain villages, fields of lavender, limestone mountains and the world famous vineyards of the Rhône valley. Excellent public transport available enables the walk to be easily divided into one or two weeks holidays. Details of accommodation, transport and other facilities on and off route are included, as well as invaluable practical information for newcomers to walking in France. Those visiting the area on holiday can sample parts of the trail by a number of day walks.     Price:  £7.99  Quantity: Mont Blanc Walks (Ref. Code. 9781852844141) A full-colour guide to the very best walking around Chamonix and Mont Blanc, the world capital of mountaineering. It is written by locally based British guide and photographer Hilary Sharp, a real expert on the range. With 50 outstanding walks and 4 multi-day treks, this covers both the French side around Chamonix and Italian side around Courmayeur. Illustrated with outstanding photographs by the author and sketch maps of the routes.     Price:  £12.95  Quantity: Rother Around Mont Blanc (Ref. Code. ROTHERMB) The finest valley and mountain walks. 50 worthwhile walks in the vicinity of Chamonix, St. Gervais, Argentiere and Courmayeur. With exact route descriptions and 1:50,000 walking maps as well as numerous tips for places of interest and excursions.     Price:  £8.99  Quantity: GR 20 Corsica: The High Level Route (Ref. Code. CICERONEGR20CORS) Corsica's GR 20 remains one of Europe's greatest treks. Here, Paddy Dillon has gathered together in a totally new guide the critical information for a successful trek. This includes: how to get started and what to take, the best time to go, sketch maps for each stage, details of facilities on and off the route, peaks that can readily incorporated into a full exploration of the island, as well as a crystal clear route description. He has brought this tough and marvellous route to life in a book that will inspire as well as inform.     Price:  £14.00  Quantity: The Haute Route: Chamonix-Zermatt (Ref. Code. PETERCLIFFHR) A GUIDE FOR SKIERS AND MOUNTAIN WALKERS. The Haute Route was first walked in 1861 by members of the Alpine Club, and the first ski traverses were in 1903 and 19911. It is a unique expedition through the highest mountains of the Alps. Once the reserve of only the most determined Alpinists, modern equipment, huts and lifts have opened it up to any reasonably fit and competent hillwalker, and in Spring to any steady parallel skier. This guidebook covers the Classic Route, six main variations (both walking and skiing), many additional minor route options, and the main mountain. It has: route descriptions and route diagrams, colour photographs, topo diagrams, detailed descriptions for finding huts in bad weather and 100 useful telephone numbers.     Price:  £9.95  Quantity: Trekking In Corsica (Ref. Code. TRAILBLAZERCORS) A mountain range rising from the sea, Corisca holds the most arrestingly beautiful landscapes in the Mediterranean. From its cobalt blue gulfs and hsell-sand beaches, hillsides of evergreen maquis give way to pristine oak, chestnut and pine forests, awesome gorges, alpine lakes and a spine of snow-streaked peaks and passes. Among the many trails that penetrate its remotest corners, the GR20, following the islands watershed, has won an international reputation. But you can also trek at lower altitudes, along ancient mule tracks between snug stone villages where the cuisine, pace of ife and atmosphere has changed little in decades. Meticulously waymarked, Corsica's long-distance routes provide superlative trekking for all levels of fitness and proficiency. This guide includes 67 detailed trekking maps, practical information, accommodation and restaurants, gateway towns and a full-colour guide on Corsican flora. N.B. Please choose 'Books #-# days' when in the checkout to specify the correct shipping criteria.    Price:  £11.99  Quantity: Sunflower Landscapes of Corsica (Ref. Code. SUNFLOWERCORS) With beaches to suit every taste and mountains rising to 3000m, no other Mediterranean island can boast Corsica's wealth of natural beauty. This book turns Corsica's countryside inside out for you, whether you tour by car and stroll to nearby picnic spots or, better still enhoy a good day's hike... rounded off with a robust evening meal with superb local cuisine. This guide includes walks for all ages and abilities, topographical walking maps, car tours and fold-out touring map, short strolls to idyllic picnic spots, public transport timetables and an update service for the latest information. N.B. Please choose 'Books #-# days' when in the checkout to specify the correct shipping criteria.    Price:  £12.99  Quantity: Rother Walking Guide: Corsica (Ref. Code. ROTHERCORS) 56 walks on the coasts and in the mountains of the 'Island of Beauty'. With exact route descriptions, walking maps with a 1:50,000 scale, and numerous tips for places to visit and sights to see. N.B. Please choose 'Books #-# days' when in the checkout to specify the correct shipping criteria.    Price:  £8.99  Quantity: Rother Walking Guide: Côte d'Azur (Ref. Code. ROTHERCOTEDAZURE) 45 walks in the Maritime Alps, the highlands of Grasse, the Esterel, the Massif des Maures, on the Cote varoise and in the Calanques. With detailed descriptions of the walks, small walking maps and many tips on combining the walks, places of interest, accomodation and public transport. N.B. Please choose 'Books #-# days' when in the checkout to specify the correct shipping criteria.    Price:  £8.99  Quantity: Cicerone The Way of St James Le Puy - Pyrenees (Ref. Code. ISBN1852843713) Guide covers the 740km French section of the route - from Le Puy-en-Velay in central France to the Pyrenees. Clear and detailed route description illustrated with a series of sketch maps. Practical advice for the journey as well as background information on St James and pilgrim references en route.    Price:  £12.00  Quantity: Sunflower Landscapes Eastern Provence: Cote d'Azur to the Alps (Ref. Code. ISBN1856911918) This guide for motorists and walkers travels through the most beautiful landscapes between the Italian border and the A51 motorway. Beginning at Nice and the Riviera, you head north and west through the Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes de Haute-Provence (highlights include the Mercantour National Park and Grand Canyon du Verdon). Beyond Var, with its unspoilt coast, the book takes you round the Montagne Ste-Victoire, to Aix-en-Provence. 'Landscapes of Wesern Provence' travels from Aix to the Pyrenees. This guide includes walks for all ages and abilities, topographical walking aps, car tours and fold-out maps, idyllic picnic spots and an update service for the latest information.     Price:  £10.99  Quantity: Sunflower Landscapes Western Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon (Ref. Code. ISBN1856912574) This guide for motorists and walkers travels through the most beautiful landscapes between the A51 motorway and the Pyrenees. Beginning at Aix-en-Provence, you move west via the Luberon and Mont Ventoux to the Great Roman cities and the Pont du Gard. After forays north to the Ardeche, the Tarn and the Cirque de Navacelles, head south through Herault to Carcassonne and the Canal du Midi. Crossing the Corbieres and the Land of the Cathars, you reach the foot of Canigou, holy mountain of the Pyrenees. This guide includes walks for all ages and abilities, topographical walking aps, car tours and fold-out maps, idyllic picnic spots and an update service for the latest information.     Price:  £10.99  Quantity: Provence: The Finest Valley & Mountain Walks (Ref. Code. ROTHERPROV) 50 worthwhile walks from the Ardeche to the Verdon Gorge and from Mont Ventoux to the Calanques. With exact descriptions, coloured walking maps and countless tips on places to visit and sights to see.     Price:  £8.99  Quantity: Trailblazer Trekking In The Pyrenees (Ref. Code. ISBN 1 873756 82 8) This is an area of awe-inspiring natural beauty. Approximately 450km (280 miles) in length, the range includes rolling foothills, steep gorges, high passes and imposing peaks. Superb scenery, a rich culture and a long history, wonderful cuisine and excellent sporting opportunities all combine to make the Pyrenees one of Europe's most exciting regions; there's no better way to experience it than on foot. This guide includes 90 detailed trekking maps showing walking times, places to stay and points of interest, with detailed route descriptions: GR10 from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, GR11 from Roncesvalles to Andorra and Link Routes and HRP sections. Plus, a wealth of practical information from planning your trip; getting to France and Spain from other countries in Europe, North America and Australasia; where to stay (all budgets), where to eat, what to see, and getting to the start of your trek; historical and cultural background; health and safety; minimizing your impact on the environment; French and Spanish language sections. There is also a 4 page full colour guide to the flowers of the Pyrenees, plus an illuistrated bird identification section.     Price:  £11.99  Quantity: Cicerone Walks and Climbs In The Pyrenees (Ref. Code. ISBN 1 85284 328 4) This guide is an introduction to one of Europe's finest mountain ranges. It offers suggestions for 170 walks, multi day tours and moderate ascents of some of the principal summits of the Central or High Pyrenees and includes the Pyrenean High Route between the Cirque de Lescun and Andorra - one of the most challenging and rewarding mountain treks of all. The active walker, trekker and climber is spoilt for choice, for there is enough scope in the Pyrenees to fill a lifetime of holidays with a host of experiences no matter what your degree of commitment. There are exquisite valleys and passes to wander day after day, and summits of 3000 metres and more within the reach of most hill walkers. The landscape is full of diversity and contrast, with Alpine style peaks, small glaciers, deep gorges and more that a thousand mountain lakes. The range is also know as the 'flower garden of Europe', and the wildlife includes carious species rarely seen elsewhere on the continent. Since the first edition appeared in 1978, Walks and Climbs in the Pyrenees has become accepted as the authoritative guide to the range, and this new edition incorporates many changes and additions to reflect the boom in interest in the area. For centuries the Pyrenees basked in the mystery of the unknown. Unaccountably dismissed as holding little of importance to the climber, mountain walkers ignored them almost completely. But all that has changed and the Pyrenees have now become the focus of attention for mountain activists of all degrees of commitment. Not just walkers and climbers, but parapente enthusiasts, mountain bikers, white-water kayak buffs, bird-watchers, butterfly and flower lovers, cavers and those who gain a thrill from descending horrific waterfalls and seemingly inaccessible canyons- the sport known as Canyoning. As an arena for outdoor adventure the Pyrenees fulfills so many dreams. Covers Spain, France and Andorra.    Price:  £15.00  Quantity: The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (Ref. Code. CICERONEROBLOU) The route, which is well served by accommodation of all types, is divided into twelve day-stages in the guide, so that the Trail easily fits into a fortnight’s holiday. The book includes details of the facilities for the traveller and places of interest en route, together with a detailed route description and an account of Stevenson’s adventures with Modestine. For those with more time available, trails that link the beginning and end of the route are also described, making it is possible to walk all the way from the historic town of Le Puy to Alés. Packed with snippets of fascinating information about this historic region, the guide is also of use to cyclists and motorists keen to trace a parallel road route, following in the footsteps of Stevenson and Modestine.     Price:  £12.95  Quantity: