A Run Adventurer walking book, full colour
Places in Cheshire with a View
People think Cheshire is flat. Twenty hills, and a view from the top of every one of them, say otherwise.
Somewhere, in a parallel universe where I have sold 100,000 copies, there is a vast warehouse full of these books, staffed by cheerful people on forklifts who can get one to your door by tomorrow morning. Sadly, that universe is not this one. In this one there is no warehouse. There is not even a shed.
Instead, each paperback is printed just for you, at the moment you order it, which is either wonderfully bespoke or mildly inefficient depending on how you look at it. This takes 1 to 2 weeks, and Lulu will give you a more precise estimate at checkout. So if you're planning to give one for Christmas, a birthday, or to yourself for that holiday where you need a giggle beside the pool, please order in plenty of time. The book will not hurry. Books never do.
Printing one at a time also makes each copy a little more expensive, and then there's postage, which nobody enjoys. The good news is that Lulu posts a whole order in one parcel, so if you put several in your basket you pay the postage once, not once per book. They look rather good lined up on a shelf, and they argue far less than most families at Christmas.
Lulu also has a habit of running its own discount codes, usually a percentage off, so it is worth looking for the current one before you check out. I don't set them and I can't predict them, rather like the weather in Sandbach.
Genre Walking guideSet in Cheshire, from Runcorn Hill to Shining TorPaperback £21.99, full colour, printed to order
About the book
Go and stand on Helsby Hill at teatime, or on the Cloud at sunrise with the whole plain full of mist, and you'll never call Cheshire flat again.
This book walks the rim of the Cheshire bowl. The red sandstone hills above the Mersey. The long ridge of the Sandstone Trail, from Frodsham to Malpas. The gritstone edges where the county climbs into the Peak District, all the way to Shining Tor, the highest point in Cheshire.
Twenty hills, each with the walk to the top, a key to what you're looking at, the story of the place, the rock under your feet and the folklore that goes with it. Every route has a QR code that takes you straight to the map, the film and the GPX on Run Adventurer. It's a full colour, photo-led paperback, and it's not a comic novel. Nobody's pies talk in this one. It's just the hills, which are funny enough on a wet day.
Where it goes. Cheshire, from Runcorn Hill to Shining Tor. Every hill in the book is real, and every one of them has a route you can follow, with a map, a film and a GPX. The views are as described, weather permitting, which in Cheshire it often doesn't.
Walk it yourself
Every route in the book
Maps, films and GPX files for all of them, free on Run Adventurer.
Watch the route on Run AdventurerAlso by Simon Donnelly
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