Reviewer Jessica Roberts is a book reviewer for a local newspaper and has reviewed for a national women's magazine too. She has had various articles published in magazines and has now completed her novel. Jessica currently lives in West Yorkshire and enjoys walking in the dales and woodlands as part of her hobby as well as, of course, reviewing books. To read more of Jessica's reviews CLICK HERE
Author: Brandon Wilson
Illustrated by: Ken Plumb
Publisher: Pilgrim’s Tales
ISBN: 978-0-9770536-2-9
A nice book and fans of Wilson’s others will take much delight in this. It will please the young and old alike and is one of those books you can put down and pick up whenever you feel like it. I wonder what is next on Wilson’s agenda?
Author: Brandon Wilson
Illustrated by: Ken Plumb
Publisher: Pilgrim’s Tales
ISBN: 978-0-9770536-2-9
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Those of you familiar with the name Brandon Wilson will probably have read his other books, Along the Templar Trail, Dead Men Don’t Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa and Yak Butter Blues.
These are adventure books and if you are into globe trotting you will definitely enjoy them.
His latest offering takes the reader to the Via Alpina, a new path stretching across eight countries. To Wilson, this is the ultimate test, full of discovery, fear, laughter and of course a few tears too.
The path was set to be treacherous–
Wilson would have to climb 3000 feet from valley to mountain each
day. Exhaustion, dehydration, aches and pains were all to be suffered
in the name of adventure!
However Wilson, brave as he was, would not go alone and enlisted the company of ever-trusting wife Cheryl for his latest voyage.
Throughout this book you will read all their triumphs and all those moments when you thought it could all be over. I kept smiling, reading on and turning those pages wanting to know their fate. Did Wilson really accomplish what he set out to do? And how did they deal with the heights and mid-July ice fields?
There is a collection of photographs to glance through which capture special moments on the adventure and a few friendly wildlife friends!
There is also the nice touch of hand-drawn pictures by Ken Plumb to keep you amused. These have a cartoon edge to them to please younger readers and keep you entertained.
The addition of mini maps were also pleasant to come across giving you a rough idea of how far they had traveled and how much further they would need to go to complete what they had set out to do.
Not much else to put in a review without giving too much away, but I was very intrigued as to how it would all turn out and marvelled at some of the situations which were overcome through determination and strength. It goes to prove that we can all do what we put our minds to if we try hard enough and I’m pretty sure Wilson will brag about this feat to all his friends!
A nice book and fans of Wilson’s others will take much delight in this. It will please the young and old alike and is one of those books you can put down and pick up whenever you feel like it. I wonder what is next on Wilson’s agenda?
