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From pocket walking guide books to coffee table books filled with stunning outdoor photography check out some of the best outdoor books available. If you're looking for instructional guides for climbing, skiing, kayaking or mountaineering the we'll have the right book for you. We also stock a great selection of entertaining and inspirational non-fiction climbing and mountaineering books.

Cordee Books Scottish Sea Kayaking Guidebook: A selection of 50 great sea kayak voyages around the mainland of Scotland and the Western Isles, ranging from day trips to three-day journeys. A fascinating read and an inspirational book. Illustrated with superb colour photographs and useful maps throughout, it is a practical guide to help you select and plan trips. It will provide inspiration for future voyages and a souvenir of journeys undertaken. As well as providing essential information on where to start and finish, distances, times and tidal information, the book does much to stimulate and inform our interest in the environment we are passing through. It is full of facts and anecdotes about local history, geology, scenery, seabirds and sea mammals.; £19.99

Cordee Books Scottish Whitewater Guidebook: The long awaited guidebook to white water across the length & breadth of the country. Written by paddlers, for paddlers, this is a must for anyone, covering 215 runs on 190 rivers & illustrated in colour.; £15.95

Cordee Books Scottish Canoe Touring Guidebook: A guide for canoeists and kayakers to the gentle rivers, canals, lochs and sea lochs of Scotland. This guide is aimed at those looking for calmer waters à rivers, canals, inland lochs and sheltered sea lochs. Routes described cater for all tastes, from those seeking an idyllic afternoonÆs paddle to those looking for a multi-day canoe-camping expedition. The guide follows a similar format to the acclaimed Scottish White Water guide.; £14.95

Cordee Books In and Around Glasgow: In and Around Glasgow is one of the most popular in the 25 Cycle Routes series. Scotland's largest city and its surrounding countryside offer many opportunities for exhilerating cycle runs. From the semi-rural charm and easy cycling of the Forth-Clyde Canal to the wild heights of northern Ayrshire, and from the wooded parklands of Mugdock and the Carron Forest to the Victorian grandeur of the city centre, the variety of rides is wide and unexpected.; £9.99

Cordee Books Bike Scotland Trails Guide Guidebook: In 2005, Scotland was declared the world's no 1 place for mountain biking by the International Mountain Bicycling Association. This new Pocket Mountains Trails Guide, Bike Scotland, features 40 of Scotland's very best mountain bike routes - from the man-made trails at Glentress, which have provided many thousands with an introduction to the intoxicating thrill of singletrack riding, to wild epics through the highest Hebridean mountains and remote lochside trails accessible only by boat - thistrails guide by the country’s top mountain bike writer and photographer shows you why.; £6.99