'From the birthplace of trail running, comes the tales of what it means to follow the path. The pure essence of trail running, infectious and captivating. Askwith will motivate you to climb a hill and scream down it, mud, stones and all!' -- SCOTT JUREK, international best selling author of Eat and Run
Richard Askwith is a writer, journalist and former Associate Editor of the Independent. He is the author of the best-selling and award-winning titles Feet in the Cloudsand Running Free. Robert Macfarlane is one of Britain's leading writers on nature and landscape. The author of The Wild Places, Original Copy and Mountains of the Mind, he is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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