Upland

Deeply researched and authoritative, Douglas has produced a definitive history of the peoples, cultures and lands of our rocky isles from the most magisterial and far-seeing perspective. Every page holds a fascinating nugget – I learned so much – Gaia Vince, author of Nomad Century
Our hills and mountains, though scattered, are a kingdom of their own. Nobody has ever gathered into a book their human story, their geography, their past and their future, before. Ed Douglas has achieved this with elegance and passion – Matthew Parris
Beautifully written – Laura Spinney, author of Proto
This book is completely enthralling and original – and can only have been written by someone with a profound love of our uplands. The sense of time through geology and of space through elevation gives the book an epic scale; readers are left in no doubt that uplands are a unique witness to our island story and to many of our natural predicaments. Our fragile landscapes have a fine new biographer – Nicholas Crane, author of Latitude

Ed Douglas is a prize-winning writer about mountains. His books include Himalaya: A Human History, which was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, Kinder Scout: The People’s Mountain, and a biography of Tenzing Norgay. He won the Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature in 2010.

Douglas has been a climber for forty-five years and was for a decade the editor of mountaineering’s oldest publication, the Alpine Journal. He lives in Sheffield.

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