Maps and Socks is an anthology of writings by authors who describe their experiences of walking at various times and in various places, without technical travel details. The weather is all-important to them. They discuss the reasons why they set off, where they went, and how they felt in the hills. They went by road, across plains, through forests, bee-lining across country (trespassing occasionally), on long-distance paths, over passes, and up into the hills. They may walk on into the night, and sleeping out may be an ecstatic experience or it may rain. They may walk too far and too fast,...
Maps and Socks is an anthology of writings by authors who describe their experiences of walking at various times and in various places, without techni...
Tom Patterson was born in Melbourne in 1920 and educated at Cambridge and St. Thomas' Hospital. He worked for thirty years as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in NHS hospitals and as a Clinical Lecturer in teaching and research at Oxford University. On retirement, he worked for ten years in the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine (Oxford) and in India, with a special interest in the East India Company. His leisure interests include mountain walking and playing chamber music. By the same author, also available on Amazon: The East India Company and Medicine in India (2010) Maps and...
Tom Patterson was born in Melbourne in 1920 and educated at Cambridge and St. Thomas' Hospital. He worked for thirty years as a plastic and reconstruc...
Self-taught Georgia artist Eddie Owens Martin (1908-86), known as St. EOM, created a visionary art site called Pasaquan in the mid-1950s in Marion County, Georgia. Covering seven acres, this evocative and fanciful site has captured the imaginations of thousands of visitors.
Self-taught Georgia artist Eddie Owens Martin (1908-86), known as St. EOM, created a visionary art site called Pasaquan in the mid-1950s in Marion Cou...
