Join Jacquetta Megarry on Thursday 1st May, at 7pm, as she chats to Jenny Brown about 25 years of Rucksack Readers!
Rucksack Readers is the specialist publisher for long-distance trails celebrates 25 years of award-winning guidebooks for adventurous walkers and cyclists.
This year marks 25 years since Jacquetta Megarry founded the only guidebook publisher dedicated to long-distance trails for walkers and cyclists in the UK, probably in the world: the award-winning Rucksack Readers®.
Megarry founded Rucksack Readers® in 2000 to create guidebooks in a rucksack-friendly format. On her first long-distance walk, the West Highland Way, she had found the traditional design of the official guidebook impractical. Megarry thought she could do better and began to devise a waterproof, lightweight format with built-in mapping, optimised for the route. Rucksack Readers® are the result. They have become one of the UK’s bestselling guides to long distance walking in the UK and Ireland with more than 40 guidebooks in print.
Uniquely, Megarry tests the directions by walking the trails personally, and often works closely with the trail manager to improve the route itself.She devised the Rob Roy Way in 2001 and has remained deeply involved with its management and waymarking ever since.
Rucksack Readers® are printed on specially treated paper that resists rain and snow. They focus on the things which matter – rigorously field-tested route descriptions, built-in maps optimised for the route and 100 gorgeous photographs – all in the lightest and most weatherproof package on the market.
To commemorate this milestone, on 1 May Rucksack Readers®is launching a new Scottish title,River Tay Way, and revised editions of popular English routes (Cumbria WayandHeart of the Cotswolds) together with theWicklow Waywhich starts in Dublin.
"I had the most wonderful time walking the Nidderdale Way and would recommend it as an ideal long-distance path."-Clare Balding, broadcaster and author
"Helpful and fascinating."-Lorraine Kelly, TV presenter and author
“The perfect companion for anyone wanting a modern, honest guide to making the most of the experience.” -Stephen Jardine, broadcaster
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