Active outdoor pursuits

In The Power Meter Handbook, Joe Friel offers cyclists and triathletes a simple user's guide to using a power meter for big performance gains.

"Deine Rennrad BucketList" ist ein inspirierendes Buch für sportliche Radfahrer.

London Cycling Guide, 4th Edition is your complete, newly updated guide to life in the bike lane!

For over four decades, Cameron McNeish has chronicled Scotland's majestic landscapes and the outdoor communities who inhabit them.

Martin Moran lived life in the mountains to the full.

Mark Atkinson is living proof that you don't have to be 'good' at running to make it through a marathon or even further.

'The winter completion of the Munros in a single push was not only a tremendous team effort but also Martin and Joy's great love story.

'Observant and witty.

WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior.

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2018Jonny Muir was a nine-year-old boy when the silhouette of a runner in the glow of sunset on the Malvern Hills caught his eye.

Winner of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Award for Excellence: Outdoor Book 2019Chris Townsend embarks on a 700-mile walk along the spine of Scotland, the line of high ground where fallen rain runs either west to the Atlantic or east to the North Sea.

The 2019 Running Awards: Best BookA guide to running for the unathletic, told by a man who fell into the sport almost by accident.

Hamish Brown, who occupies a special place as a Scottish writer and traveller, turns his wealth of experience into captivating narratives of fascinating people and places; sometimes serious, at times laugh aloud in this new volume.

A must-read for anyone with an adventurous spirit, a yen to whittle and chop, and a desire to get out into nature and play with sticks!

A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers.

50 savvy skills for outdoor adventurers.

A book of delicious, easy-to-make recipes in the great outdoors.

A beautifully presented, practical gift guide to the age-old art of tying knots.

BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARTen years after breaking a world record for cycling around the world, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels on the roads of Israel and occupied Palestine.

For one brilliant season in 1983 the sport of fell running was dominated by the two huge talents of John Wild and Kenny Stuart.

Hamish Brown has been an outdoorsman for more than sixty years.

Approaching his middle forties, Gavin Boyter wondered what his life was all about.

'A wonderful, personal book.

WINNER OF THE OUTDOOR WRITERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS GUILD: OUTDOOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016'Those who decry peak bagging as mere list ticking fail to understand the commitment challenge and pleasure involved.

The Round is not only a history of the Bob Graham Round, but also an exploration of the what, why and how of this classic fell endurance challenge.

As probably the world's most experienced long distance walker who also writes, Chris Townsend has many stories to tell and many photographs with which to illustrate them.

Hamish Brown's account of his epic walk has been the inspiration for generations of hillwalkers.

When Dominic Gill set out from Alaska on his bicycle, it was to be no ordinary ride.

In the spring of 1892, Frank G.

You will have built up for yourselves a wonderful store of memories which will not leave you as long as you live: memories of sun and wind, of the songs of birds, the patter of rain upon the leaves and the smell of the warm, wet earth: memories of white, dusty roads, clear streams and cool, shady places: perhaps, too, of dark clouds and great winds: but, most of all, you know that you will remember the sparks rising from your camp fire and the small circle of flickering light keeping the darkness at bay.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAROn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France.

The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made.

This book is a comprehensive gamekeeping manual for those enthusiastic amateurs who spend their spare time running a small DIY syndicate shoot, and for those who are professionally employed on a full-time basis.

Over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine.

Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape is the astonishing biography of French cycling star Jacques Anquetil.

This book offers those who may be thinking of building their own own shed practical constructional advice and use of materials; all of the sheds in the book have actually been built, and are not just ideas.

The bicycle is not just a vehicle used to transport ourselves, to exercise one's body or to obtain joy.

"e;What transformed pure physical delight into something deeper was the fact that no-one had been here before.

The main section of the book gives fun runners and ambitious runners alike a knowledgeable introduction, enabling them to draw up a structured training plan for the ultra distances.

The main section of the book gives fun runners and ambitious runners alike a knowledgeable introduction, enabling them to draw up a structured training plan for the ultra distances.

How does a boy from a small Oregon farm town get swept up in the politics of his chosen sport?

Healthy Intelligent Training is for all serious middle distance athletes and coaches.

This book explains the process of fat deposition and burning, and provides a plan to gain control over both sides of the issue: intake and burn-off.

"e;Walking - The Complete Book"e; will motivate you to get moving, avoid aches and pains, and enjoy a more energetic life.

You don't have to wonder anymore what to do each day!

*AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'As the title suggests, Waypoints is a rewarding mix of markers, both personal as he reflects on his life and geographical as he leads the reader along the West Highland Way' - The Scotsman'A deeply personal and warmly entertaining memoir that fans of Sam - and Scotland - will have a joyful time devouring' - Heat'From both his walk and his career, the common lesson is the power of persistence.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATUREChanging the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the world.

When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast in the mountains, the elfin Italian, unmistakeable in the bandanna and hooped ear-rings that played up to his "e;Pirate"e; nickname, replied: "e;To shorten my agony.

1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die features wide-ranging, carefully chosen routes varying from the rugged delights of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path to the wilderness of Jamaica, and the Harz Witches' Trail high up in the German mountains.