Books on Bens / BookCrossing
Doing a Google search on something quite unrelated, I came across this website dedicated to BookCrossing .
BookCrossing is the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
The page I have linked to is by someone called Sheila from Inverness, who combines her passion for bookcrossing with her passion for hillwalking. She leaves a book(mostly on mountain themes) at the mountain bothies and peaks she visits. If you scroll down her page, you will see some of the places and can check to see what book was left. Some of the people who have found the books have left comments on her site.
I must say I think it's a wonderful idea and I'll keep my eyes peeled for a books from now on!
Hi! I could start my message to you in the same way as your blog message…
“Doing a Google search on something quite unrelated, I came across….” (your blog)
I’m the daft woman leaving books on our Scottish Munros and lesser hills and in mountain bothies. I’ve been doing so for 3 years, but don’t get out in the hills nearly as often as I’d like. As far as I know, I’m the only bookcrossing member leaving books in the Scottish hills, but a few bookcrossing members do likewise in the Alps and the US. See here*. The vast majority of the 413,000 members leave books in city centre cafes or park benches, but I have great fun leaving mine (in polybags) on our Munros and lesser hills. A few of these have been picked up, journalled at the site and left on other mountains by hillwalkers, so you may find one somewhere other than where I left it. As you say, I try, to leave books relating to mountains, but as I read a wider range of books and pass some of my favourite mountain books to a walking friend, I leave other books too.
I had an article published in the Bookcrossing newsletter last week, with a few of my favourite releases, including one which found it’s way to Mt Kilimanjaro (not by me, unfortunately). http://www.bookcrossing.com/articles/2021/
* http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/2275048
Happy Munro bagging
Sheila aka swan-scot
Posted by: Sheila | October 25, 2005 at 08:34 PM