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Don't want to read on the website? Well fear not dear reader, for you can buy books covering the tales of several of my walks.

You can buy them from all major digital book stores, and many are also available as PDFs. And for some walks, you can also get a print version too!

Doing the Dales Way

Published 12 March 2011

If you’re after hiking, beer, viaducts and rivers, Doing the Dales Way is the e-book for you as one man heads to the hills to walk from Ilkley to Windermere on the Dales Way. Why? Well why not?

One Coast To Another: Following Wainwright from St Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay

Published 25 February 2011

The truly inspirational, heart-warming and awe-inspiring e-book of two white able-bodied thirty somethings who follow hundreds of other people walking from one side of the country to another, just because Alfred Wainwright thought it was a good idea.

Rambling Man Walks The East Highland Way

Published 28 January 2015

The lure of the East Highland Way was so strong that some people just have to hoist rucksacks on their backs, and rush to the train station with a good friend to do it. And who wouldn’t?

Rambling Man Walks the London LOOP

Published 13 July 2016

There was beauty to be find in the boundaries of the capital, of that I was sure. So I set off to find it by walking the LOOP. Along the way I found London really was hiding some wonderful gems.

Rambling Man Walks The North Downs Way: Following the Pilgrims from Farnham to Dover

Published 23 October 2013

Andrew Bowden was unemployed and getting tired. Tired of looking for jobs. Tired of thinking about what to say for interviews. Tired of visiting the Job Centre to justify why they should give him some money. Tired of sitting in front of the computer all day waiting for that elusive offer of gainful employment to appear. Tired. So very tired. And that was just after three weeks of doing it.

Rambling Man Walks The Ridgeway: From Overton Hill to Ivinghoe Beacon

Published 19 March 2013

The Ridgeway. An 87 mile route with ancient forts, barrows, white horses, monuments and more. Or, alternatively, rural pubs playing trance music and revelations about 1980s television programme Button Moon, that shake you to the core.

Rambling Man Walks The Thames Path

Published 22 March 2017

In 1996 the Thames Path National Trail opened up; a walking trail that would take the walker between the source of the Thames in rural Gloucestershire, and the Thames Barrier on the eastern side of London.

Rambling Man Walks The Yorkshire Wolds Way

Published 17 March 2019

The Yorkshire Wolds Way. A 79 mile walking route that starts near the Humber Bridge, and ends with fish and chips in sight at the Victorian seaside resort of Filey.

See You In Kirk Yetholm

Published 30 April 2015

For over 60 years walkers have been drawn to the Pennine Way’s journey across wild and empty moorland, murky bogs, cloud covered summits and endless rain. Yet somehow it has a hypnotic charm that persuades people to walk it, even if they never intended to do so.

The Secret Coast to Coast: Walking Scotland’s Southern Upland Way

Published 6 December 2011

From one side of the Scotland to another on the coast to coast route that cuts right across the Scottish Lowlands, but which few seem to have heard of.

Walking with the Last Prince: Following Owain on the Glyndwr’s Way

Published 19 March 2013

Want to escape the monarchy on a weekend of Royal Wedding madness? What better way to do it than to follow a trail named after the last Welsh Prince of Wales.