Rock Trails Snowdonia - A Hillwalker’s Guide to the Geology and Scenery by Paul Gannon, £14.95
‘I look forward to taking this book with me on any future trips to North Wales’, Emily Rodway, TGO magazine.
‘A cracking little book’, Mal Creasey, MLTE newsletter.
‘Allows even the most familiar landscape to be seen through a fresh perspective’, Colin Wells, Climb magazine.
Welcome - Croeso to the website dedicated to this new book about Snowdonia (Eryri). Rock Trails Snowdonia is aimed at the hillwalker who wants to know a bit more about the landscape they love.
Writing a book is a long-term process. It all starts with an idea. I love walking in the hills and mountains and, ever since studying geography at school, I’ve loved finding out more about why the mountains look like they do.
But geology is always such a difficult subject to get a grip of. Its scientific language may allow for precision, but it also presents a major barrier to wider understanding.
So my idea was to approach the subject, not as a geologist, but as a walker. What explains the landforms I can see when I’m out walking is what interests me. That seemed to me to be the right approach for a book about the geology and scenery of Snowdonia.
Then came the job of doing all the research and selling the idea to a publisher.
Well, that was now well over a year ago now, the book’s been published and is available via this site (click on the cover image on the right of this page and other pages) and from outdoor shops, bookshops and tourist shops in and around Snowdonia.
Six months on from publication it’s nice to add that the response to the book has been tremendous, especially from people who live in and around Snowdonia and either whose work takes them into the mountains in the leisure industry or are regular walkers or climbers. I’ve been told time and again, ‘I’ve never understood a geology book until I read this one’. It seems that the time is just right for a book explaining the geology in simple plain language - a reflection no doubt of the growing awareness of environmental issues in general.
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