The Book of the Bivvy
Cicerone Press (Verlag)
978-1-78631-078-1 (ISBN)
They are the best of nights, they are the worst of nights…
Bivvying offers a chance to experience a whole new level of immersion in the outdoors, with just a lightweight bag between you and the elements. The Book of the Bivvy provides an informed, humorous, instructive, wry insight into the world of the bivouac, drawing upon Ronald Turnbull's own extensive experience.
The book is a half-and-half mix of how to do it and why to do it (or how not to do it and why not to do it). Accounts of bivvybag nights and expeditions, both nice and nasty, are interspersed with practical tips about types of membrane, sites, techniques and minimalist kit. There are stories and anecdotes from all over the UK, plus a few from abroad. The rich and colourful history of the bivvy is also explored in Ronald's own inimitable style, with descriptions of how Diogenes (the Cynic) bivvied under timber and how the Eigerwand was climbed only through improved bivvying technique.
The Book of the Bivvy is a celebration of back-to-basic camping, the perfect antidote to our fast-paced, comfort-based modern life. Honest and entertaining, there is every chance it will inspire you to find a remote hilltop, roll out your bag and watch the sunset.
Ronald Turnbull writes regularly for TGO, Lakeland Walker, Trail and Cumbria magazines. His previous books include Across Scotland on Foot, Long Days in Lakeland and Welsh 3000ft Challenges. He has written many other Cicerone guides, including Walking in the Lowther Hills, The Book of the Bivvy and Not the West Highland Way.
Map key
1 Introduction
Bag for life
Bivvy night 1: Snowdon
2 Primitive bivvy
Bivvy night 2: Peigne and suffering
Problems of the polybag
Plastic bag for pleasure purposes
Polybag facts
3 Bivvy history
Rude people enquire into futurity
Nights on the Eiger
Bivvy night 3: A walk on the Wye side
Mr Brown's little green bag
4 Midlevel baggery
Bivvy night 4: Fast asleep on the Berwickshire coast
Cave behaviour
Bivvy night 5: A bedroom in Borrowdale
Fallback bag
Bag and camera
Bivvy night 6: Man management
Bag shopping
Poncho, basha, tarp - and the groovy group shelter
5 Time, things and Miguel
Time
Things
Miguel
6 Sleeping on summits
Bivvy night 7: Great Gable
Walking on the wet side
7 The comfort zone
Bivvy night 8: Up Base Brown in down
Sleeping mats
Dew process
Route 1: Merrick two-day trip
8 But what if it rains?
Bivvy night 9: Wet under thorns in Belfast
Further suffering
What if it rains?
Look after your bivvy and your bivvy will look after you
9 Across Scotland by bag
Wetness and weight: cross-Scotland constraints
Route 2: Acharacle to Aberdeenshire
10 The art of lightweight long-distance
Bag and baggage
The fuel on the hill
Fast food
High cuisine
Bivvy night 10: A peat-hole on Bowland
The importance of water
11 Mountains under the moon
Route 3: Coleridge's Helvellyn overnight crossing
12 Bivvybag routes
Route 4 Lakeland all the way
Route 5: Rannoch Moor: the beauty and the bog
Bivvy night 11: Helm Crag
13 But that was in another country
Foreign parts
Route 6: Sierra Nevada: the Spanish 3000s
Bivvy night 12: Cima Cadin
14 And in the end
Sheltered housing for the elderly
Appendix A Suppliers
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cicerone guidebooks |
| Zusatzinfo | 6 maps and over 65 colour photos |
| Verlagsort | Kendal |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 116 x 172 mm |
| Gewicht | 190 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
| Reisen ► Sport- / Aktivreisen ► Europa | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78631-078-3 / 1786310783 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78631-078-1 / 9781786310781 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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