Ring the Hill av Tom Cox

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<b>''Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving . . . It made me want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps'' Stephen Fry<br><br>''Beautiful, funny, fascinating, impossible-to-categorise . . . Like going on a great ramble with a knowledgeable, witty, engaging friend. Tom Cox brings magic to the most mundane of subjects'' Marian Keyes<br><br>''Sheer bloody genius . . . I loved it. Then I loved it more'' John Lewis-Stempel, author of <i>Meadowland</i></b><br><i><br>A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked ¿Quite A Lot Of Hills¿ where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are.<br></i><i><i><br>Ring the Hill</i> </i>is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill ¿ whether it¿s a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump ¿ as a starting point for one of Tom¿s characteristicall