Mountain Star wrote:You kept that one quiet Paul?
Not intentionally - I thought I've been going on about it for ages
It was intended for publication more than 2 years ago and has suffered quite alot of delays. We've been updating it constantly since then, so it's good to see it finally coming out and you all get evidence it does exist in case some were beginning have doubts.
How would I describe it? The introduction etc. are aimed to be a bit more light-hearted in tone; I'd say the route descriptions are hopefully more detailed than most guidebooks. As well as the main popular route described for each Munro, there are alternative suggestions mentioned for most of them. There are also area introductions which we've tried to give info about things like walkers' pubs, pie shops, the best fish and chips, or anything else in the area that we thought might be of interest. For someone new to the Munros hopefully we've included the things you really want to know.
The design is quite like our other guidebooks i.e. small pages but this is much thicker (672 pages); the photos (by a number of different photographers) are mostly whole page or double page spreads rather than having the same format for every route (likewise the descriptions are all different lengths rather than sticking to a page-per-hill type thing). The publisher is going to put up some page samples on their website at some point.
Thanks all and I hope you enjoy it.
