The path more travelled: the secret geography of Britain’s footpaths - Nicholas Crane

A fascinating coast-to-coast exploration of Britain’s footpaths through the ages, from the Age of Ice 12,000 years ago to the modern era of National Trails and city pavements. Along the way, we tread hunter-gatherer routeways and find out how early farmers then Romans, Saxons and Normans prepared the way for an Industrial Revolution that transformed the way we move across Britain's extraordinary landscapes.

As this is an East Anglian event, Nick will also home in on the ancient footpaths of East Anglia.

Nick’s latest book and the subject of this talk will be on sale at the event with author signing.

About the speaker

Nick Crane’s latest book, The Path More Travelled, The Secret History of British Footpaths was published this year. As a geographer and broadcaster, Nick presented the BBC2 TV series Coast, Map Man, Great British Journeys, Britannia and Town.

His travels include a solo, 10,000-kilometre, mountain-walk across Europe from Cape Finisterre in Spain, to Istanbul in Turkey, and a bicycle ride across the Himalayas, Tibet and Gobi Desert to the ‘Pole of Inaccessibility’ (the geographical centre of Asia).

Nick’s earlier books include Clear Waters Rising, Two Degrees West, Mercator, Great British Journeys, Coast, You Are Here and Latitude. The Making of the British Landscape has been widely praised as “a geographer’s love letter to the British and the land that formed them’. Nick Crane is a past President of the Royal Geographical Society (2015-2018).

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This event has been organised by the East regional committee.

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