The Wild Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain’s Footpaths Audiobook (Free)

Mike Parker, bestselling writer of Map Addict, is back again with a very complete, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate Uk subject – footpaths and the history of land ownership.

Mike discovers how these pathways have become a part of our cultural landscape and why, at the tender age group of 44, he suddenly sees himself at a crossroads.

Provocative, funny and personal, this book celebrates Britain’s unique and outstanding network of footpaths. It examines about The Crazy Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain’s Footpaths their chequered and amazingly turbulent history, in the Enclosures Acts of the eighteenth century towards the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; and in the hard-won post-war establishment of great National Trails just like the Pennine Method towards the dramatic latter-day fights by the likes of Nicholas vehicle Hoogstraten and Madonna to keep ramblers off their land.

The story ranges far and wide, to all sides of the united states and beyond, and it is filled with the countless individuals that Mike engages with on the way – the poets and artists, farmers and ramblers, landowners and Rights of Way officers and campaigners, historians, archivists and other people who crosses his route (and even tries to block it).