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TRAILBLAZER Route guides for the adventurous traveller
Travel guides written by travellers for travellers
Since 1991 we've been publishing a select list of practical guidebooks written by travellers for travellers. Trailblazer authors have a voice and these books are opinionated. They tell it like it is – bad as well as good.
We've concentrated on providing readers with information on routes as we believe the interest can be as much in the getting there as in the final destination. The range now includes adventure travel guides, rail guides, worldwide trekking guides and British walking guides. Take a look at our booklist and be inspired!
Coronavirus impact
While we’ve been unable to travel far we've been hard at work at home getting the new editions of Henry Stedman’s Hadrian’s Wall Path and Chris Scott’s Adventure Motorcycling Handbook (among others) off to press. They're both now in stock here and our inspirational new title, Pilgrim Pathways - 1- to 2- day walks on Britain's ancient sacred ways has just arrived.
With encouraging news of vaccine development, it won't be long before the world starts to return to normal and we're out on the footpaths of Britain, the trails of Nepal, the back roads of Morocco and the rails in Russia and Japan again.
Buy a book and plan ahead!
Bryn Thomas (Publisher)
Trailblazer Walking Guides App
Our partner, Atlas Guides, has produced an app that now includes the South Downs Way, The Ridgeway, Cotswold Way, Coast to Coast Path, Hadrian's Wall Path, West Highland Way and Tour du Mont Blanc. Additional trails are coming soon. More here...
Adventure Motorcycling Handbook
- 8th edition now in full colour
- Re-researched and expanded – 25% more pages of valuable advice and ideas
- Practical information – Essential documentation, choosing and equipping your bike, travel health and shipping, life on the road: borders, money, comms and much more
- Route outlines – Asia, Africa, Latin America
- Epic trip reports – from 25 intrepid travellers
Hadrian's Wall Path – 6th edition
- Re-researched and rewritten two-way edition – with routes rewalked in both directions
- New two-colour style
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