A review by kizzia
The Lost Paths by Jack Cornish

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

There is so much in this book that I don’t quite know what to talk about. I’ve learned so much about so many different things - how paths are designated, bits of history (including social and cultural), folklore, nature, and architectural information - that I often had to go back over a chapter again just to make notes. As well as being excellently written is has a narrative flow that allows for subtle linkages to become noticeable as well as making you want to read on long after you’d told yourself you’d stop after another minute. 

It left me feeling hopeful, content and stirred up, all at the same time and I have promised myself that once I’ve got settled in Northumberland I will become one of the volunteers who map and preserve the pathways that we all have right to roam on.

I listened to this book via Audible, ably narrated by Jack himself.