{"title":"Books by Peter Knowles","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780995751354","title":"Pub Paddles","description":"New Edition 2025.  'Pub Paddles' is a colourful, inspiring guidebook for every kind of paddler and craft, including paddleboards, canoes, kayaks, sit on tops and inflatables.  The 26 'Best Paddling Trips' were selected by the Rivers Publishing team as easy but interesting, mostly 1-3 hours long, and within an hour or two of London.  They are family-friendly, provide good access, parking, pubs, tea shops, castles, canoe and paddle board hire.  The clear maps and comprehensive details have been updated for this edition to ensure that you have a hassle-free and fun paddle.  Reviewers consistently call this 'a brilliant guide book'.   For this edition every trip was re-researched, fully updated and then tested.  The format of the first edition had been much praised so changes have been kept to a minimum and those familiar with 'Pub Paddles' will recognise an old and trusted friend.  There is one exception - a whole brand new trip - one that all the team and testers at Rivers Publishing enjoyed and we hope you will too!  All the trips in this guidebook are well proven and suitable for SUPs, but some are better than others, so as a help to the reader the team have compiled a list of their own favourite 'Best for Paddle Boarding' trips.  Another added feature is a detailed paddling map of the South East of England shown as a two page spread inside the back cover.   The author, Peter Knowles is a famous expedition paddler and international guidebook writer.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295633551733,"sku":"9780995751354","price":19.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"topographical-map-of-the-lake-district-wainwright-fells","title":"Topographical Map of the Lake District Wainwright Fells","description":"This map shows all of the 214 Wainwright Fells of the Lake District very clearly on a high quality topographical base map. It will especially appeal to those walkers who are aiming to climb all the Wainwright Fells and want a clear, user-friendly aid to plan their trips and to mark off the fells as they do them.  The map has been carefully designed to show essential detail as clearly as possible, whilst leaving off the things of less relevance (including footpaths) that would otherwise clutter the map. The result is a map of the Lake District that is one of the clearest, most legible and elegant maps available today. The base map is a detailed topographical map (based on O.S. geodata) that shows - towns, villages, roads, railways, stations, ferry crossings, youth hostels, campsites, rivers, lakes and mountains. Topographical relief is shown by graduated colour layers with a 50m contour interval.  Each Wainwright summit is clearly labeled with the fell name together with a small circle so that you can mark off a peak when you have done it. Popular starting and parking places are shown with a small blue dot to further aid planning routes. Place and fell names are easily legible.   The map is a convenient size so that it is easy to use - either opened out on a table, in the car, or when displayed on the wall. The map is printed on high quality paper. On the reverse of the map are tables and lists of the 214 Fells, with their heights with a wide column so the user can record the date climbed and personal notes.  There is also helpful information on recommended books, web sites, etc.  Rivers Publishing is a well established, specialist publisher based in the Lake District. Over the last twenty years they have built up a reputation for best-selling, quality guide books and maps.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483253612917,"sku":"9780955061479","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780955061479.jpg?v=1786178375"},{"product_id":"paddling-map-of-britain-third-edition-2022","title":"Paddling Map of Britain - Third Edition 2022","description":"This map of mainland Britain that shows the huge extent of paddling possibilities on rivers, lochs, canals and coast - some 37,000km of paddling!  Enthusiasts buy this map to plan and dream, whilst for the newcomer to the sport it answers that question \"where can I go paddling?  It is colour coded to clearly show the nature of these waterways. Southern England and Wales is on one side of the large B1 sheet - Scotland and the North of England on the reverse.  The base is provided by a map of Britain at 1:625,000 (ten miles to the inch) that shows roads, towns, villages, rivers, streams and lakes with this detail in pastel colours.  Brighter colours show some 540 rivers graded by difficulty - also canals and waterways used by motorized craft.  Popular paddling trips are highlighted, as are white water centres.  The map also shows locations for selected loch and coastal trips.   Information panels give guidance, recommended websites and guidebooks - all designed to 'open the doors' to the world of paddling - for canoes, kayaks and SUPs.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483560288629,"sku":"9780995751347","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780995751347.jpg?v=1786178744"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-peter-knowles.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}