This title is an informative guide that shows the reader how to understand and cope with the backcountry environment. It shows how to survive in the desert without water, or ride a canoe through rapids, or cache food, or avoid animal attack, recognize tracks, and find direction with or without a com[...]

An appraisal of the full range of accomplishments of this internationally popular contemporary artist.[...]

When Chris Townsend reached the summit of Ben Hope in Sutherland, he walked his way into the record books. After 118 days in which he had covered more than 1,700 miles and climber over 575,000 feet, he had completed the first single continuous journey of all 277 Munros and 240 Tops in the Scottish H[...]

As probably the world's most experienced long distance walker who also writes, Chris Townsend has many stories to tell and many photographs to illustrate them with. Of all his adventures, those he enjoyed on America's Pacific Crest Trail in the Eighties are among his favourites. The PCT runs 2,600 [...]

The career of Tracey Emin, one of the best known contemporary British artists, has become a potent symbol of the relationship between art and celebrity in our time. When it was exhibited in London at the Tate in 1999, her now notorious installation My Bed was denounced by conservative critics as a n[...]