Buying Shirley Whitehead's Madeira Walks qualifies you for a free Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map in Discovery Walking Guides Great Map Giveaway
- see Discovery Walking Guides website for details. Madeira is a wonderful destination for walkers offering a breathtaking diversity of landscape; lushly verdant slopes towering volcanic peaks dramatic gorges & soaring cliffs surprise & amaze the newcomer. Add to this the levada network primeval forests subtropical flora & the superb landscaped gardens
- little wonder that the island is fondly called The floating garden of the Atlantic". This second edition of Shirley Whitehead's Madeira Walks book offers a wealth of choice for every walker & explores the best areas the island has to offer guiding you on forty routes each re-researched for up-to-date accuracy. With this book in your pocket your visit to Madeira becomes an unforgettable adventure. Each walk description
Includes::- route summary giving overall view of the route & access information. ratings for Effort Time Distance Ascents/ Descents Refreshments & Vertigo risk where applicable in an easy to see pictorial ' Summary' box. fully detailed walk description including frequent timings to aid navigation & check your progress GPS waypoints at every key point on every route (subject to reception) full colour 1:40 000 scale mapping for each route taken from the latest edition of Madeira Tour & Trail Map. Madeira has such a wealth of walking routes that they cannot all be contained in a single pocket sized book so Shirley Whitehead has produced both Walk! Madeira & the latest edition of Shirley Whitehead's Madeira Walks so that the two books cover all of the island's walking adventures; without any duplication between her two books. Combined with the Madeira Tour & Trail Map for planning which routes you plan to hike & navigating around the island you have the 'complete' walking package for this remarkable isl&. With Shirley Whitehead's Madeira Walks Walk! Madeira & the Tour & Trail Map you will be able to choose which routes are most suitable for your walking adventures & your fitness level. There are routes suitable for strolling ranging up to adventurous routes that will thrill experienced mountain hikers. You can tackle all of these walking adventures with the comfort of knowing that all the walk descriptions have been researched in detail along with GPS surveying of every route. For GPS Users. Discovery Walking Guides (DWG) offer all purchasers of their ' Walk!' guide books the opportunity to download the GPS walking route information direct from their website free of charge. GPS files are provided in gpx file format so that the files may used with a wide range of gps software including Memory Map Mapyx Quo GPS Utility along with a range of smart phone/pad apps. Each ' Walk!' destination is provided as a Zip file containing the gpx files. Simply go to the website download the Zip file for your ' Walk!' destination to your hard drive unzip the Zip file to see the individual gpx files then start uploading those gpx files to your GPS or smart phone. The gpx file for a ' Walk!' walking route usually contains both the gps Waypoints for that route merged with the gps Track for that walking route though for some walking routes only the GPS Waypoints might be included in the gpx file. Digital versions of the Madeira Tour & Trail Map used for Shirlkey Whitehead's Madeira Walks & Walk! Madeira are available from Memory Map & Mapyx Quo as well as from Discovery Walking Guides."


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