Slow travel: Northumberland

272 pages, including 16 with colour photos and 29 maps.

Home to England´s darkest skies, Europe´s largest manmade lake, and some of the country´s loneliest stretches of coastline, Northumberland is the perfect place to slow down and explore. This is an intelligent and independent guidebook to all the major tourist attractions and many lesser-known places too. It reveals the best plaes to watch wildlife, first-person accounts of the Hadrian´s Wall Trail and where to find England´s only bagipe museum.