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In this section of the shop, we've listed guide books on Languedoc that are more activty-focused. You'll find books on where to go cycling and walking and also the best driving routes within the region.
The Canal Du Midi: A Cruiser's Guide
Bernd W Kiessler. 144 pages. 2009.
PAPERBACK:
£8.96
This handy-sized guidebook has all the information boaters need to navigate the canal, and is packed with cruising and background information about each stage. There are enticing colour photos and distance maps of each section, showing locks, bridges and yacht havens. This book will accompany sailors and motorboaters all the way, enabling them to make the most of their journey down one of the most famous canals in the world.
Perpignan walking and hiking map
Foldable map. 2006. Free distance ruler included.
TOP 25 maps (maps where the code ends in "T") are for places of 'intéresse aux touristes'. They are real walkers' maps with a wide variety of useful information on paths and tracks such as, long distance GR (Grande Randonnée) routes, interesting unsignposted ways along footpaths, cross-country or high mountain skiing routes, hard parts of a hiking trail, restricted zones, huts and mountain refuges. This map comes supplied with a handy distance measuring ruler, specifically printed for use with 1:25 000 scale mapping, which when placed onto the map allows the user to instantly read off point to point distances (as the crow flies) in either miles or kilometres. The reverse shows the more important items from the Top25 map legend.
Walking in the Cathar Region
Alan Mattingly. 208 pages. 2005.
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KINDLE EDITION:
£8.93
£8.48
The guide offers 30 walks based on the once strategically important castles that dominate the foothills of the Pyrenees. Each walk has as its focal point a castle or other location associated with Cathar history (mostly the 13th century). Summaries of the historical connections of each location with the Cathar period are given, and together these relate the story of the downfall of the Cathar Church, from the massacre in Béziers in 1209 to the siege at Montségur in 1244, which ended with the burning alive of over 200 believers who refused to renounce their Cathar faith.
Languedoc-Roussillon : 50 randonnées
50 randonnées sélectionnées dans l'arrière-pays et sur la côte [French]. 2008.
PAPERBACK:
£12.27
50 selected walks in the countryside and along the coast of the Languedoc-Roussillon region. This walk guide book is in French.
Aude Pays cathare - walks
Christophe Levillain. French. 2011.
PAPERBACK:
£7.84
20 walks within the Aude, Corbêres and foothills of the Pyrénées.
Corbières Fenouillèdes : Balades et randonnées à pied
Chamina. French. 2001.
PAPERBACK:
£59.59
French guide to 36 walks in the beautiful Corbières region of the Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales departments.
Carcassonne walking map
Foldable map. French. 2011.
PAPERBACK:
£9.78
Map of the area north of Carcassonne city showing the best walks in that region.
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