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Steve Cracknell

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Born

The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.wildingthepyrenees.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Travel, Nonfiction

Influences

George Monbiot, Eric Newby, Bill Bryson, Norman Lewis, Paul Theroux, J ...more

Member Since

December 2011

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Steve Cracknell's latest book looks at rewilding with top predators. Wolves and bears are returning, but many shepherds are unhappy, asking who owns the mountains? It is a question that is being asked all over the world. Who does own the countryside? How is that ownership shared? What are the rights and responsibilities?
The Implausible Rewilding of the Pyrenees looks for answers.

Steve grew up in Yorkshire, England discovering the joys of blisters on the North York Moors. He studied archaeology at Cambridge University and became a field archaeologist, digging in Britain and Europe before trading in his trowel for a computer. Publishing and web design were his next challenges.
Moving to France in 1997, he started walking in the Pyrenees and wr ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 74 ratings · 13 reviews · 13 distinct works

	If you only walk long enough: Exploring the Pyrenees 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Footprints on the mountains... the news from the Pyrenees 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Els Pirineus indòmits: Una renaturalització sorprenent by Steve Cracknell (Goodreads Author), Marià Pitarque (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Footprints on the mountains... the news from the Pyrenees 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Implausible Rewilding of the Pyrenees 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Pyrénées tout en marchant sur le GR10 by Steve Cracknell (Goodreads Author), Lucie Morice (Translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pyrénées sauvages: à l'écoute de la montagne 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	If You Only Walk Long Enough by Steve Cracknell (2009-02-21) by Steve Cracknell (Goodreads Author), Cracknell, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Camping in the Ordesa National Park

Góriz hostel above the cañón de Ordesa

From 2022, trekkers will no longer be able to camp near to the Góriz hostel or anywhere nearby. Last year there were up to 200 tents with consequent problems for the sewerage system.

If the hostel is full, and only if all beds are taken, exceptionally up to 50 tents may be tolerated, but camping won’t be free. [Info from Pyrénées magazine, Nov 2021.]

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Steve Cracknell liked Marcel's review of Els Pirineus indòmits: Una renaturalització sorprenent: "Un llibre que recull moltes veus i opinions sobre la renaturalització i el pastoralisme als Pirineus, que dona una imatge molt plural i que ajuda a a reflexionar sense un biaix previ massa fort. Molt bon material per començar a pensar en la imatge qu" Read more of this review »
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Steve Cracknell and 4 other people liked Veronica's review of The Proof of My Innocence: "This is Coe’s most ambitious novel for a good few years, veering away from the more or less straight storytelling of Middle England and Bournville towards the meta-fiction postmodernism of (much under-rated) The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim. It fe" Read more of this review »
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