{"product_id":"9781846148736","title":"Cols \u0026 Passes Of The British Isles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A delicious and hypnotically fascinating masterpiece of squinty-eyed fanaticism' - Stephen Bayley, \u003ci\u003eSpectator Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'No one else so relishes the odd corners of history' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Such a warm, gentle and generous writer, with no faux scholarly tosh or solitary ecstasy riffs' - \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e         \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe one and only guide to every col and pass in the British Isles, for cyclists, walkers and armchair travellers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA col is the lowest point on the saddle between two mountains. Graham Robb has spent years uncovering and cataloguing the 2,002 cols and 105 passes scattered across the British Isles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of these obscure and magical sites are virgin cols that have never been crossed. Dozens were lost by the Ordnance Survey and are recorded only in ballads or monastic charters. The eleven cols of Hadrian's Wall are practically unknown and have never been properly identified. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese under-appreciated slices of natural beauty provide a new way of looking at British history, and a challenge for cyclists and walkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wonderful writer . . . No one else so relishes the odd corners of history - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is such a warm, gentle and generous writer, with no faux scholarly tosh or solitary ecstasy riffs - \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Robb is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for\u003ci\u003eVictor Hugo\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Discovery of France\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives on the English-Scottish border (and within a day's ride of one hundred and seventy cols).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robb, Graham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56676922458498,"sku":"9781846148736","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0936\/6575\/5522\/files\/9781846148736.jpg?v=1779983544","url":"https:\/\/archwaybookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781846148736","provider":"Archway Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}