Author(s): Cox, Tom,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 16/04/2020,
Pagination: 320 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Unbound,
Published By: Unbound,
Book Classification: Memoirs, The countryside & country life,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781783529018
Description: 

A hill is not a mountain.

You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked 'Quite A Lot Of Hills' where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are.

Ring the Hill is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill - whether it's a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump - as a starting point for one of Tom's characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations.

Tom's lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead.