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Cols and Passes of the British Isles

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Cols and Passes of the British Isles

By Graham Robb

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About the book

A 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.Some 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. These underappreciated slices of natu...Show more

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ISBN

9780141981451

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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Cols and Passes of the British Isles

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