Download PDF by Janette Norton: Walking in the Cevennes: 31 walks and the Tour of Mont

By Janette Norton

ISBN-10: 1852843365

ISBN-13: 9781852843366

An introductory guidebook to the easiest strolling within the Cevennes quarter of southern France, describing sixteen day-walks within the southern Cevennes (based round Le Vignan), 15 day-walks within the northern Cevennes (based round Florac) and a 5-day trek round Mont Lozère. even though simply around the River Rhone from Provence, the Cevennes is considered one of France's wild and unknown areas. akin to the Scottish Highlands in locations (similar in peak at a greatest of 1567m, yet hotter and with fewer midges), the area contains the 230,000 sq km Parc nationwide des Cevennes and the higher reaches of the Tarn gorge. First brought to a much broader global through Caesar's crossing after which via the younger Robert Louis Stevenson and his ?Walks with a Donkey' (1879), the Cevennes nonetheless has a lot that may be freshly explored. in comparison with Provence the landscapes are harsher, extra mountainous, much less populated. the elements is extra severe: winters are chilly, windblown and snowy, summers are dry and sizzling. The Cevennes draws the walker and explorer who has a flavor for a extra rugged and subtler panorama. this is often Janette Norton's 3rd Cicerone advisor to France, following on from her Haute Savoie and Provence publications. dependent within the north round Florac and within the south round Le Vigan, the advisor explores the strolling power of the zone in 31 part- to full-day walks and the well known five-day circuit of Mont Lozère.

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