This is an alternative collection of walks! 30 walks explore less well-known parts of the dramatic Dark Peak landscape of the Peak District. Wander freely over the moors
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Includes:: walks on the new ' Right to Roam' parts of the Dark Peak & traditional open access areas. Scramble up rocky gullies
- an opportunity to be more adventurous. It features dramatic landscape
- steep slopes, gritstone crags, wide exposed moorl&, tumbling rivers & photogenic reservoirs. Use & improve your navigational skills
- locate aircraft wrecks, memorials, Bronze-Age barrows, Iron Age forts & remnants of an industrial past. This title contains accurate map references
- advantageous to today's GPS (Global Positioning System) users. It is divided into five sections
- Kinder Scout, Bleaklow, Black Hill, Eastern moors, & a section containing two longer walks. It also provides lots of helpful information
- each walk

Includes:: a starting point, distance & estimated time, a general description including level of difficulty, & a very detailed route description.










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Scrambles in the Dark Peak guide from Cicerone Press with over 40 easy summer scrambles & winter climbs in the northern part of the Peak District National Park illustrated on extracts from the Ordnance Survey 1:25, 000 Explorer series and/or photos overprinted with the routes. Coverage

Includes:: routes in the Chew Valley, near Crowden, on Bleaklow & Kinder Scout, & in the Roaches. The publishers’ recommendations include plenty of links & extensions to make up longer, more challenging days on the moors. Each detailed description

Includes:: OS grid coordinates for the start/finish point (s), height gain, grade & rating, etc. The introductory chapter

Includes:: advice on equipment, conditions, grades, access, conservation restrictions, etc, whilst the appendices include details of all the recommended routes & lists of useful contacts.





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Located in the Peak District & distinguished from the neighbouring White Peak by the layer of gritstone which covers its limestone bed, the Dark Peak features a wild landscape of sweeping moorland & big skies. Easily accessible from Sheffield, it boasts a wealth of natural, geological, historical & cultural interest
- & some great walking. This guidebook describes 40 walks in the Dark Peak. Ranging from short strolls to full-day adventures, they showcase the region`s unique character. Dramatic waterfalls, striking gritstone edges, heath & woodland are just some of the delights encountered, with many of the routes venturing off-path to explore hidden cloughs & valleys. Detailed route description is provided for 35 walks, accompanied by 1:50, 000 OS mapping & interesting facts about local points of interest, then a further five longer walks (of 25-45km) are summarised in the final section, including a classic circuit of the Kinder Scout skyline. Taking in the high moors of Derwent, Bleaklow, Kinder & Howden, the walks reveal not only the area`s wild beauty but also some of its fascinating stories.10, 000 years of history lie waiting to be uncovered
- from Neolithic burial mounds & Bronze Age cairns to remnants of the region`s more recent industrial past. This guide is a perfect companion to discovering the secrets of the Dark Peak & experiencing its magnificent landscape in all its glory.

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In 1992 an Indian climber was left to die on Mount Everest, despite being just 30 metres or so from another climbing team`s camp. The controversy sparked by this event & by the increasing abuse of Mount Everest for financial gain appalls Joe Simpson & is the basis for this gripping polemic.” His concern is that the strong ethics & selfless instincts that have characterised mountaineering in the past are being eroded by modern-day ambition, selfishness & greed.”
- Audrey Salkeld, Sunday Times.
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Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putin`s Russia
- its former colonial ruler which sees Kazakhstan as its own backyard
- & Xi Jinping`s China
- the rising global superpower on its eastern borders
- this vast oil-rich state is carving out its place in the world as it contends with its own complex past & present. Journalist Joanna Lillis paints a vibrant picture of this emerging nation through vivid reportage based on 13 years of on-the-ground coverage, & travels across the length & breadth of this enigmatic country that lies along the ancient Silk Road & at the geopolitical & cultural crossroads where East meets West. Featuring tales of murder & abduction, intrigue & betrayal, extortion & corruption, this book explores how a vainglorious president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, transformed himself into a potentate & the economically struggling state he inherited at the fall of the USSR into a swaggering oil-rich twenty-first-century monocracy. A colourful cast of characters brings the politics to life: from strutting oligarch to psychotic presidential son-in-law, from principled politicians to striking oilmen, from crusading journalists to courageous campaigners. Dark Shadows explores how Kazakhstan grapples with its Russian imperial & Soviet past, with survivor testimony recounting a dramatic history of revolution & war, famine & flight, terror & trauma that left the Kazakhs battling for their very survival as a people. One elderly lady recounts her forced march to China to escape famine as a child; another tells of her deportation to Central Asia as a newborn; a third recalls how Stalin`s Terror despatched her grandfather to the firing squad & her grandmother to the Gulag. There are heartrending stories about life in post-Soviet environmental disaster zones: victims of nuclear testing around the site where the USSR exploded its first atomic bomb; fishermen left stranded in the desert as the Aral Sea shrinks; villagers in the snow-bound north afflicted by a mysterious sleeping sickness. There are quirky snapshots of life in far-flung corners of Kazakhstan, from the Russian Old Believers harbouring 500-year-old grievances to the maverick atheist who refuses to back down in a clash of principles with the state. There are inspirational tales of labours of love: from the nuclear-physicist-turned-ostrich-farmer tending his brood of gangling bipeds on the southern plains to the minister-turned-viticulturalist reinventing a dilapidated Soviet collective farm as a boutique winery. Traversing dust-blown deserts & majestic mountains, taking in glitzy cities & dystopian landscapes, Dark Shadows conjures up Kazakhstan as a living, breathing place, full of extraordinary people living extraordinary lives.



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Dark Side of the Spoon: The Rock Cookbook features thirty recipes inspired by some of the most renowned rock acts of today & yesteryear. The dishes are accompanied by exclusive artworks from thirty top illustrators. Catering for cooks of all abilities & tastes, this book will help you master a wide range of starters, mains & desserts
- including Smashing Pumpkin Pie, Fleetwood Mac & Cheese & Primal Bream. Dark Side of the Spoon celebrates the many humorous parallels between food & rock, & is a must-have for anyone with a love for cooking, music or illustration, or indeed all three.
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In em Dark Sparring/em, Selina Tusitala Marsh combats family loss with all the techniques of poetry, ritual & Thai kickboxing at her disposal. The book & accompanying CD brim with fluid, humming list poems, literary shoutouts & personal elegies, as Marsh takes us through her mother`s diagnosis with cancer & the long journey out the other side of her illness. Along the way, she shows us other parts of her world: scenes from Matiatia to ?rapiu to Apia; classroom politics; the importance of leadership; & the reasons New Zealand is a `lucky` country. Dark Sparring has an appealing voice, a strong right hook & an affecting, rhythmic heart. ...

Embarking on another ambitious journey, Paul Theroux travels on his Dark Star Safari from Cairo to Cape Town by train, boat & cattle truck. He sets out to travel the length of Africa & to see everything in-between. Travelling through some of the most beautiful & most ravaged landscapes on earth, he revisits countries after forty years` absence
- having been a teacher in Malawi, he revisits his old school, friends & colleagues. The book is infused with the past & Theroux examines the changes that have occurred in these African countries after almost four decades of independence. He reinserts himself into the bush, to wander the ancient savannah & finds the people poorer, hungrier, less educated, more pessimistic & more corrupt. But he also uncovers a vibrant energy in the face of privation & want. Endlessly curious, witty & observant, Theroux is the ideal guide on this epic, enlightening journey. Reviewed by Alex Stewart, retail product manager, Stanfords Covent Garden.* Shortlisted for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.*
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