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WALKING THE WATERSHED

The Border to Cape Wrath along Scotland's Great Divide

by Dave Hewitt

Illustrated by Chris Tyler

First published June 1994 by TACit Press

ISBN 0 9522680 1 9

Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988), Dave Hewitt has asserted his moral right to be identified as the author of this work

Thanks to Mags, Grant, Alan and Julia for proofreading

for Warbeck and for Mags

Now the geography was becoming clear, my knowledge becoming connected and I was seeing the relation of these mountains to each other...

With each new view, the pattern had grown inside me. Now the framework was there, and I would spend a lifetime filling in the gaps. These mountains would always be a part of my life.

Peter Boardman
Sacred Summits

The rivers in the distance
must be leading somewhere...

The Blue Nile
Heatwave

About Walking the Watershed

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

1: Below the Belt
2: Homeland heatwave
3: Into May, into the Highlands
4: Recovery
5: Crossing the Red Sea
6: Munropolis
7: Chrysanthemum and Cheesecake
8: Hitting the wall
9: Just and no more

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