Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent and witty exploration right into a glorious and passionate British subject – footpaths and the history of land ownership.

Mike discovers how these pathways have become section of our cultural landscape and why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds himself at a crossroads.

Provocative, funny and personal, this book celebrates Britain’s unique and amazing network of footpaths. It examines about The Crazy Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain’s Footpaths their chequered and remarkably turbulent history, through the Enclosures Acts of the eighteenth century to the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; and from your hard-won post-war establishment of great National Trails like the Pennine Method towards the dramatic latter-day battles by the likes of Nicholas vehicle Hoogstraten and Madonna to maintain ramblers away their land.

The story ranges far and wide, to all edges of the united states and beyond, and it is filled with the countless heroes that Mike engages with along the way – the poets and artists, farmers and ramblers, landowners and Rights of Way officers and campaigners, historians, archivists and anyone else who crosses his path (or even tries to stop it).