{"product_id":"wild-peaks-a-lively-informative-and-funny-360-odd-mile-walk-through-the-peak-district-at-75","title":"Wild Peaks: 360-odd mile walk through the Peak District at 75 by Tom Chesshyre (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoin acclaimed travel writer and incurably curious hiker Tom Chesshyre in this celebration of the Peak District, Britain’s first National Park, on its 75th anniversary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Funny, fair and honest, and effortlessly readable' Matthew Parris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the heart of England lies a fascinating landscape of rugged dark gritstone plateaus and gentle green limestone valleys: the Peak District. But this national treasure hasn’t always been open to all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a spring day in 1932, 400 disgruntled ramblers embarked on a ‘mass trespass’ of Kinder Scout, the Peak’s highest point. Their aim? To establish a right to roam across the land, against the wishes of wealthy owners. And in 1951 they finally got what they wanted: the Peak District was established as Britain’s first national park. Home to striking dragon-back ridges of rock, vast expanses of peat, farms and villages, cloughs and caverns, the Peak is much more than the ‘howling wilderness’ described by Daniel Defoe three centuries ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo mark the park’s 75th anniversary, celebrated travel writer Tom Chesshyre hit the trails on a 360-odd mile ramble to find out how this dramatic landscape has fared – and to celebrate this symbolic home of hiking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWild Peaks follows winding paths, pausing at old inns and mountain huts, and along the way meeting a rich cast of landowners, farmers, historians, mountaineers, publicans, rangers, right-to-roamers, travellers, mountain-rescue members, mystics, dreamers and fellow hikers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon your cagoule, grab a compass and join Tom as he explores how this place has changed, and how we have too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somiibooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53736537653591,"sku":"9780008733469","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9780008733469.jpg?v=1780931917","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/wild-peaks-a-lively-informative-and-funny-360-odd-mile-walk-through-the-peak-district-at-75","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}