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Costa Blanca Walks Vol 2 East - southern Spain - Europe

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Information Sheet
Introduction
Contents
Sample Route
Availability
Temporarily out of stock
Cover
Paperback - Laminated
Published
1 Nov 2004
Edition
Second
ISBN
9781852843380
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ISBN (10)
1852843381
Size
17.2 x 11.6 x 1.5cm
Weight
280g
Pages
256
No. Maps
40
No. Photos
33
Originally Published
1 Mar 2002

Costa Blanca Walks: Vol 2 East

by Bob Stansfield

A guidebook to 42 day walks to the north of Calpe in Spain's Costa Blanca. The book includes routes in Sierra Bernia / Ferrer, Sierra Olta / Toix, Val de Jalon, Val de Laguart, Val de Llosa, Montgo and outlying areas. The rugged mountains of the Costa Blanca offer wonderful walking among pinnacled ridges, enormous crags and shady pines. More...

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Seasons

Year round. 300 sunny days per year, although the height of summer may be a bit too hot for many.

Centres

Coastal towns of Calpe, Altea, and Javea, with Benissa and Pego inland.

Difficulty

True mountains, although only up to 1500m. Rocky, pinnacled and steep. Treat as real mountain Read More... walking.

Must See

Real Spain, just a few minutes from the coast. Bernia Ridge, walks among cliffs, castles and Read More... almond blossom.
 
 
Recommended Guidebooks In English
Michelin Guide to Spain
Berlitz Guide to the Costa Blanca
Guide to Costa Blanca (Alicante Tourist Board)
Alicante & Costa Blanca Guide (ANAY Touring Publications)

Recommended Rock Climbing Guides
Rock Climbing Guide to the Peñon d’Ifach by Juan Antonio Andres Martinez (published by the author in Spanish, English, French and German): lavishly illustrated in colour, but no written descriptions of the routes.

Costa Blanca Climbs by Chris Craggs (Cicerone Press): excellent guidebook in the traditional English style and gradings.

Topo guides to one of the most popular rock climbing locations in the area, Sella, can be purchased at the bar in the village square, or up the valley at a climbers’ refuge below the crags.

Geology
The Geological Field Guide to the Costa Blanca by C.B. Moseley (Geologists’ Association)

Ornithology
Country Life Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe by Bertel Bruun (Country Life)

Botany
Flowers of South-West Europe by Oleg Polunin and B.G. Smythes (Oxford)
Flowers of the Mediterranean by Oleg Polunin and Anthony Huxley (Chatto and Windus)
Wild flowers of Spain (3 booklets) by Clive Innes (Cockatrice)
Wild flowers of Southern Spain by Betty Molesworth Allen (Mirador Books, Malaga, 1993): covers Andalucia but applicable to Costa Blanca area.

Wildlife
Wildlife in Spain by John Measures (Crowood Press)

General Reading
Iberia by James Michener (Fawcett)
Spain by Jan Morris (Penguin)
As I walked out one Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (Penguin)
The Spaniards by John Hooper (Penguin)
The Spaniard and the Seven Deadly Sins by Fernando Diaz Plaja (Pan)
Culture Shock Spain by Marie L. Grafe (Kupera)
Spain by Dominique Aubler and Manuel Tunon de la Lara (Vista Books Longmans)
Marching Spain by V.S. Prichett (Hogarth Press)
The Face of Spain by Gerald Brenan (Penguin)
Lookout Magazine: publishes handy books on many topics relating to living in Spain, from cooking to the law, but most of the guidebooks relate to Andalucia.
The Story of Spain by Mark Williams: covers the whole country.

 
 
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