Rock Trails Peak District

A hillwalker's guide to the geology and scenery

Rock-Trails-Peak
BY: Paul Gannon
ISBN: 9781906095246
EDITION: first
PUBLICATION DATE: 2010
FORMAT: 218 pages in full colour, 200mm x 140mm, paperback section sewn
AVAILABILITY: in print

£14.95

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This is the story of the Peak landscape from its tropical beginnings to its rugged gritty present. Limestone reefs grow in the shallows of tropical seas, taking captive fossilised sea creatures. As the seas shift and coastlines change, sandstones build on the banks of a great river delta. Forests of giant ferns take hold of the land, leaving behind a legacy of coal and bitumen.

From the water worn limestone of the White Peak to the wind sculpted sandstones of the Dark Peak, the landscape here is always atmospheric. There are mysterious dry valleys with no sign of running water, caves adorned with sumptuous stalactite chandeliers and the remains of an industrial era built on mineral riches.

In the second half of the book Paul leads you on a series of fifteen walks which afford spectacular views of the best of the Peak District scenery and reveal evidence of the landscape’s intriguing history.


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Paul Gannon

Paul is a science and technology writer; he is author of the widely praised account of the birth of the electronic computer during World War II, Colossus: Bletchley Park’s Greatest Secret. He is a keen hillwalker and organises landscape walks in North and South Wales. www.landscape-walks.co.uk

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