Enjoying the outdoors

Andrew Bibby writes: Since I live in a beautiful area of England, I am fortunate that I am able to combine work with pleasure. As well as my other work featured on this website, I am also the author of a number of books for walkers and lovers of the outdoors. The details of these publications are given below.

The Backbone of England: Landscape and life on the Pennine watershed Published March 2008

"In this wonderful book Andrew Bibby... not only helps us to savour the Pennine landscape;  he helps us to understand it, and he urges us to cherish it.  He shows us how this land was formed, what has happened and is happening to it, and – in a thoroughly un-preachy kind of way – why it matters.  This is a book of enjoyment and of revelation." - Chris Smith (Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury)

Extracts from the book available here.

Freedom to Roam Guides

I am the series editor of a collection of books produced to celebrate the arrival in England of the right to roam at will in open country; I am also the author of five of the titles in this series. The books are published by Frances Lincoln Ltd in conjunction with the Ramblers' Association.

OCT 2006: Wensleydale and Swaledale named as Guidebook of the Year in the Outdoor Writers' Guild annual awards

Published in March 2006:

• Wharfedale and Nidderdale (the southern Yorkshire Dales)
• Wensleydale and Swaledale (the northern Yorkshire Dales)

Published in March 2005:

• South Pennines and the Bronte Moors
• Forest of Bowland with Pendle Hill and West Pennine Moors
• The Pennine Divide

Reviews include: Guardian, Yorks Evening Post, Halifax Courier.

Walking in Purbeck (Dovecote Press)

This book has been in print for twenty years, a tribute perhaps to the continuing popularity for walkers of the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, on England's south coast. A completely new (fourth) edition of the book, complete with OS maps, is published by Dovecote Press in Spring 2010. (Click on the image above to access two extracts from the book).

Selected journalism on an outdoors theme:

• Celebrating Britain's national parks (Choice, 2009)
• Campaigning for England's newest national park (Choice, 2009)
• London blind ramblers (Choice, 2008)
• Looking after Britain's landscapes (Choice, 2007)
• Walking the Bronte moors (Country Walking, 2007)
• Kinder Scout 75 years after (TGO magazine, 2007)
• Access walking in the North Pennines (walk magazine, 2006)
• Natural England's Sir Martin Doughty: a new champion for the English countryside? (interview) (walk magazine, 2006)
• Walking in the Forest of Bowland (Country Walking, 2006)
• Making the most of the new 'right to roam' (Choice, 2005)
• The Six Trigs challenge walk
• Enjoying access in the Isle of Purbeck (Walk, 2004)
• These moors are ours (Rambling Today, 1996)
• The ice-axe man cometh (Independent on Sunday, 1995)
• Nidderdale's natural beauty (Independent, 1994)
• Paying respects to Churn Milk Joan (Independent, 1993)
• A walk from Worth Matravers (Independent, 1993)
• Benny Rothman and the campaign for access (Rambler, 1992)

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