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Freedom to Roam : The Struggle for Access to Britain's Moors and Mountains
by Hill, Howard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 090348577X
- ISBN 13
- 9780903485777
- Seller
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Co Ltd, 1980. Name to title page and opposite page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with light indenting and with sunning to front spine edge. 139pp. An account of the restrictions on access to land in Britain for walkers and climbers and the various attempts to change that which saw its most determined effort in the 1930s in the Peak District when five men were jailed for trespassing. This contrasts markedly with the Alps which have always been free to walk on.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8.5 x 6.25 inches.
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- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027195
- Title
- Freedom to Roam : The Struggle for Access to Britain's Moors and Mountains
- Author
- Hill, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 090348577X
- ISBN 13
- 9780903485777
- Publisher
- Moorland Publishing Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8.5 x 6.25 inches
- Keywords
- Walking, Mountains, Hills, Mass Trespass
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics and Current Affairs; Walking / Rambling / Cycling;
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