Isle of Wight (Slow Travel)

The Isle of Wight is a stunning destination with a variety of landscapes, wildlife, natural beauty, history, archaeology, and dramatic landscapes. This new guide from Bradt offers practical information, descriptive detail, anecdotes, and insider tips to help visitors get the most out of their visit. It includes recommendations for seeing red squirrels, hiring e-bikes, foraging, and exploring historic and present quirks, curiosities, and attractions. The guide also covers the island's award-winning wines, dinosaur fossil-rich beaches, and annual walk at low tide. With 20 maps, visitors will be well-placed to navigate their way from one point of interest to another.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2022
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides

This brand-new guide to the Isle of Wight forms part of Bradt's top-selling, award-winning series of Slow travel guides to UK regions. Written by expert author and journalist Mark Rowe, who has visited the island over 30 times since first spending childhood holidays there, it is the perfect companion to help you get the most out of your visit, replete with not just all the practical information you could need, but also all the descriptive detail, anecdote, and insider tips to make time spent there truly enjoyable and memorable.

The Isle of Wight is an island that is astonishingly - and unexpectedly - rich in food producers, wildlife, natural beauty, history, archaeology, and dramatic landscapes. This is all the more remarkable for it being so close to the densely populated southern edges of England. At just 25 miles x 13 miles, in no other equivalent-sized area of Britain is there such a variety of landscapes (downland, estuaries, hills, saltmarshes, meadows, riverine, beach) or such a concentration of food producers (50+ independents at the last count). Here, there is a real Island culture, a creative spirit that is quite quirky and independent.

Bradt's Isle of Wight includes where to go to see red squirrels, where to hire e-bikes, where to go foraging, and where is best for families. It also covers historic and present quirks, curiosities, and attractions, including Jimi Hendrix's unusual love affair with the island, a day in the life of a ferry master, tree climbing, World War II history, nighttime wildlife, the annual walk at low tide to explore the wildlife underneath Ryde's grand Victorian pier, the island's award-winning wines, and its dinosaur fossil-rich beaches - of which it has more than anywhere else in the UK! With 20 maps, including regional, walking, and cycling maps, you'll be well-equipped to explore this fascinating island.

Weight: 344g
Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784777968