Two Degrees West

Nicholas Crane - Read June 2013

   Nick Crane, before he came to our notice on the TV series "Coast", did long and strange walks for a living and wrote about them. I read one of his other books Clear Waters Rising. In this book Nick walks the length of the prime meridian of British Isles. The meridian is two degrees west of the Greenwich meridian. He walks from the Berwick upon Tweed by the North Sea to the English Channel near Poole in seven weeks. He never uses road vehicles in all that time and more surprisingly walks the 400+ miles never deviating more than 100 meters either side the the meridian. Again we meet his unique father and the folks the walk throws up.

   My kind of book. Essentially a diary with anecdotes, wit, anger and ways of dealing with aggressive people. Very easy to read.