Headwaters visits the sources of more than fifty rivers in Great Britain from the longest & best known to some of the shortest & most eccentric. Phil Clayton describes a series of walks ranging from long treks over Scottish mountains & through wilderness glens to afternoon strolls in pastoral English parkland moorland marches to forest forays with the occasional bit of urban exploration thrown in. There is more variety of landscape & scenery around our river sources than might at first be expected & they all have a tale to tell. Three years in the making this comprehensively illustrated book also draws on a rich range of literary sources to explore the geography geology etymology history & folklore of these fundamental features of the British landscape from Trent to Severn Tay to Piddle.