Finding Your Feet
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Finding Your Feet
Finding Your Feet
An essential 'how to' guide to exploring the British countryside from the Founder of Black Girls Hike, dispelling myths, offering sound advice and giving readers the self-confidence to get outdoors.
An essential 'how to' guide to exploring the British countryside from the Founder of Black Girls Hike, dispelling myths, offering sound advice and giving readers the self-confidence to get outdoors.
I hope this book inspires you to kick down barriers, go on adventures and empower the people around you to do the same. That's how we create change.
Rhiane Fatinikun knows just what an impact a connection with nature can have on your life. Finding Your Feet is Rhiane's essential guide to exploring the British countryside for Black women and women who often feel unsafe in remote places. It offers practical tips, favourite walks and routes from across the UK, showcasing the best of nature's beauty.
Read on for compelling accounts of Rhianeβs own experiences, inspiring interviews, handy info boxes, and stunning photography.
This user-friendly toolkit of a book covers:
- Choosing the right kit
- Understanding a paper map, navigating, and what to do if you get lost
- Being responsible and staying safe
- Different types of hikes, from the local park to night-time, and coastal to mountain
- Favourite British walks with handy maps and full descriptions of the routes
- Adventures along Scotland's iconic Glencoe Pass, around the spectacular Wales Coastal Path, and through Cornwall's wild landscapes to Land's End
The outdoors is a powerful space, and everyone has the right to enjoy it. Finding Your Feet is the perfect 'how to' guide to doing just that.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781844866878
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 July 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Conway
Illustration: Colour photography and maps throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 520g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Rhiane Fatinikun MBE is an adventurer, TV presenter and advocate who founded the UK's largest Black female-led lifestyle and outdoor collective Black Girls Hike, formed in response to a lack of safe spaces for Black women in nature. Rhiane is also an Ambassador for the Wildlife Trusts and Mountain Training, and in recognition of her work she is a recipient of the RGS Geographical Award. Acknowledged as a Positive Role Model for Gender at the National Diversity Awards, listed as one of Forestry Englandβs 10 most powerful women in nature, and named Campaigner of the Year by The Great Outdoors Awards, in 2024 Rhiane was awarded an MBE for services to nature and diversity.
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