If you have legs, or a bicycle, or indeed both, you are going to love this book...The work that has gone into this small, vast, perfectly formed and beautifully bound thing is quite incredible. * Spectator * Don't pass up the chance to discover 2,002 ways to route plan across Britain -- Roger Cox * Scotsman * A wonderful writer . . . No one else so relishes the odd corners of history * Sunday Times * He is such a warm, gentle and generous writer, with no faux scholarly tosh or solitary ecstasy riffs * Evening Standard * A delicious and hypnotically fascinating masterpiece of squinty-eyed fanaticism -- Stephen Bayley * Spectator Books of the Year * It's more than a mere compendium of geographical data, Robb's warmth and passion for the subject offers a refreshing take on reading the landscape of the British Isles - and a different way of thinking about cols in general * Sb Nation *