Cumbria Way, a 112km / 70 mile long-distance footpaths across the Lake District, described in great detail in a pocket size guide from 2QT Publishing, with sketch maps, GPS waypoints, lists of facilities on or near each stage, colour photos, etc. The guide describes the route, usually walked from south to north between Ulverston on Morecambe Bay & Carlisle, in small segments – many under 1km, all accompanied with GPS waypoints. Brightly coloured special panels are used to highlight important information & along the whole route colour photos are used to aid orienteering. Each section of the route is presented on a very basic sketch map (which the publishers stress is not intended to be used for navigating) plus a route profile. For larger towns street plans are provided. Each section also has a list of places with a summary of the walk & a chart showing what facilities can be found in these locations (hotels, B& Bs, youth hostels, campsites, cafés/pubs, banks, bus or train access, etc). No accommodation details are given in the guide itself but a list of them can be downloaded from the publishers’ website. The guide also provides more general advice about the Cumbria Way, contact details for public transports, etc. ...

Cumbria Way, a 118km / 73 mile long trail across the Lake District from Ulverston to Carlisle, presented by Rucksack Readers in handy A5 size, spiral-bound, waterproof guide with mapping at 1:110, 000. A diagram shows a selection of public transport & railway connections across the region. The 64-page guide provides general advice on when to go, availability of accommodation, etc, &

Includes:: notes on geology, history, farming, habitats & wildlife. Detailed route descriptions, arranged in daily stages, are preceded by a summary of each section of the route giving distance, terrain, & availability of food & drink. The guide is illustrated with numerous colour photos. The route is highlighted on a fold-out map at 1:110, 000. The map has altitude colouring to show the topography & also indicates various facilities & places of interest. No geographical coordinates for GPS users are provided. The publishers themselves recommend that their guide is used in conjunction with the more detailed, contoured & GPS compatible map from Harvey Map Services. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Cumbria Way (72 miles) is the Hillside mini guide to walking the well established long-distance route through the Lake District, from Ulverston to Carlisle, through the scenery of the Lake District National Park. Hillside Great Britain Mini Walking Guides series is a collection of mini guides by Paul Hannon to the walking country in Great Britain. Featured walks are presented with route detail text, relevant summit/ascent data, start position, distance, national grid references, Ordnance Survey map details, access information & simple black & white overview route maps. Guides feature a table of summits & walk log. ...

Cumbria Way, a 112km / 70 mile route liking Ulverston & Carlisle across the heart of the Lake District, presented at 1:40, 000 on a light, waterproof & tear-resistant map from Harvey Map Services. The route is shown on five overlapping panels, with additional street plans of Carlisle, Keswick, & Ulverston. Maps in the Harvey’s series covering Great Britain’s national trails & other long-distance footpaths are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper & cover the routes at 1:40, 000 or 1:60, 000. Topography is shown by contours at 15m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics to provide a very detailed picture of the terrain (boulder fields, scree, crags, etc) & vegetation / land use (pastures, moorl&, woodlands, etc). In Scotland peaks & hills classified as Munros, Corbetts & Donalds are marked. The overprint for the long-distance trail shows sections on local or main roads (highlighting danger points), on tracks, & on footpaths, indicating intermittent or not visible paths. The maps also show other right of way paths, including permissive paths & bridleways. Symbols indicate various facilities & accommodation options (including campsites & youth hostels), pubs & refreshments, food shops, banks, information points, etc, both along the route itself & in the nearby locations. All maps are GPS compatible, with the British National Grid overprinted on each panel. The maps also include useful contact details & general advice. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

A guidebook to the Cumbria Way, a 73-mile long distance path through the heart of the English Lake District from Ulverston to Carlisle. The route is largely low-level, & accessible to new trekkers, but this guide offers alternative mountain days to climb some of the famous fells en route. The guide divides the route into 5 stages of between 12 & 16 miles, but there is plenty of opportunity to plan your itinerary for a more easy-going 7 to 8 days. The Lake District is a walkers paradise, & there is no better way to experience the fells, lakes & woodlands of the Lake District than by trekking through their midst. This guidebook also provides useful information for every stage, from accommodation to available facilities en route, as well as an annotated OS map & details on points of interest. The result is a guidebook that enhances a walk on the Cumbria Way, as well as providing the walker with the tools to complete the trek. ...

Walking guide to 30 day walks in the Eden Valley, in the north of Cumbria, following the River Eden from Kirkby Stephen past Penrith & Carlisle to the Solway Firth. A wide range of day routes, from 4 to 17 miles in length, past ruined castles, churches & prehistoric settlements with stunning views of the Lake District, Pennines & Scottish hills. If Cumbria`s beautiful Eden Valley were anywhere but next to the Lake District, it would be full of tourists. As it is, few venture this far, leaving locals to delight in the fact that they have this wonderful area, with its rich natural & human heritage, all to themselves. This new guidebook covers routes from the source of the River Eden, high in the wild Pennines, through undulating countryside & past red sandstone villages, right up to the vast, open expanses of the Solway marshes on the Scottish border. Walkers can enjoy anything from day-long moorland hikes to gentle riverside & woodland strolls, taking in attractive gorges, flower-filled meadows, limestone pavement & one of England`s largest stone circles. Routes are graded 1 to 5, many linking with the Settle-Carlisle railway line. Packed with historical information. ...

Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid & far-ranging journey across time & space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade & culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family`s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, & an ethnobotanical exploration of spices & their uses, Nabhan describes the critically important roles that Semitic peoples & desert floras had in setting the stages for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes
- the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, & the Camino Real for chiles & chocolate
- Nabhan follows the caravans of itinerant spice merchants from the frankincense
- gathering grounds & ancient harbors of the Arabian Peninsula, to the port of Zayton on the China Sea, to Santa Fe in the desert Southwest. His stories, recipes, & linguistic analyses of cultural diffusion routes reveal the extent to which aromatics like cumin, cinnamon, saffron, & peppers became adopted worldwide as signature ingredients of diverse cuisines. Cumin, Camels, & Caravans demonstrates that two particular desert cultures often depicted in constant conflict
- Arabs & Jews
- have spent more of their history collaborating in the spice trade & suggests how a more virtuous multicultural but globalized society may be achieved in the future.




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Cumnock street map from Nicolson Maps; coverage

Includes:: Bellsbank, Dalmellington, Drongan, Logan, Lugar,

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Cumnock, Dalmellington, Mauchline & Patna area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 327, waterproof version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series. MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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Cumnock, Dalmellington, Mauchline & Patna area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 327, paper version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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