Tom Chesshyre Audiobooks

Wild Peaks: travel writing that heads uphill and stays there

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is Tom Chesshyre?

Mountains are the pull. Wild Peaks brings Tom Chesshyre into our catalogue with a listing that spreads across travel, the outdoors, heritage and even science, which is usually the fingerprint of a writer who cannot cross a landscape without wanting to know how it came to be there.

Ten hours and fifty-one minutes gives that curiosity room to wander. Travel writing at this length is rarely a guidebook; it is a companion, the sort that detours into geology or history when the ground demands it and then finds the path again.

Beyond the writing we make no claims about the author. The book is the introduction, and a generous one.

Tom Chesshyre in audiobooks

Wild Peaks is read by David Thorpe, and landscape writing rewards a narrator who can carry description without letting it slide into lecture. Ten hours and change makes for a proper walking companion, or a run of long evenings.

The title is newly catalogued and no listener ratings have accumulated so far, so we have nothing to quote. That is simply where the entry stands at present.

If your listening runs to high ground, weather and writers who notice things, this is a natural starting point. The audiobook is below.