Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

A Long Walk with Lord Conway: An Exploration of the Alps and an English Adventurer

In 1894, Martin Conway became the first man to walk the Alps `from end to end` when he completed a 1,000-mile journey from the Col de Tende in Italy to the summit of the Ankogel in Austria. On a midsummer`s morning, nearly 120 years later, Simon Thompson followed in his footsteps, setting out to explore both the mountains and the man. A charming rogue who led a `fantastically eventful` life, according to The Times, Conway was a climber and pioneering explorer of the Himalaya, Spitsbergen, the Andes and Patagonia; a serial pursuer of American heiresses; an historian, collector and Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge; a company director and stock market promoter of dubious gold mines and non-existent rubber forests; the founder of the Imperial War Museum; the first foreigner to see the Russian crown jewels after the revolution; a successful journalist and author of over thirty books; a liberal politician; and a conservative MP. Shortly before he died, he was created 1st Baron Conway of Allington. Conway was a clubbable man who counted Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, J. P.Morgan, John Ruskin, Mark Twain and Edward Whymper among his many friends and acquaintances. An imperialist, a dreamer, a liar and a cheat, Conway `walked in sunshine all his life`, according to contemporaries, but he was also a restless, discontented man, constantly searching for meaning and purpose in his life. And that search that led him back, time and time again, to the Alps. In A Long Walk with Lord Conway, Simon Thompson retraces Conway`s long journey over the peaks, passes and glaciers of the Alps and rediscovers the life of a complex and remarkable English adventurer.

Related Products:

Winston Churchill`s London at War Walk: Follow in the Footsteps of Britain`s Great World War II Prime Minister – Through London`s Historic Westminster and St James`s Areas A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration Darling Winston: Forty years of correspondence between Churchill and his mother English Humour for Beginners Churchill: His Finest Hours Default ThumbnailThe Hertford Challenge Walk: 26 Mile Circular Walk from Hertford – a Challenge to Walk it in a Day: Follows Rivers Beane, Rib and Lee Via Puckeridge The Walk The Quotable Winston Churchill: A Collection of Wit and Wisdom Secrets of Churchill`s War Rooms The Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk: A 25 Mile Circular Walk Starting in Horton in Ribblesdale Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill Churchill`s Cocktails Churchill: The Life: An authorised pictorial biography Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist Julian Alps – Steiner Alps – Kamnik Alps Kompass 2801 Wanderlust Alps: Hiking Across the Alps A Walk Around Charles Dickens` London NOAA Chart 14886 – SMALL-CRAFT BOOK CHART – Inland Route, Cheboygan to Conway (book of 12 Charts) Sheffield Round Walk: A 24km/15mile scenic city walk through parks and woodland Wales – A Walk Through Time: Brecon to Harlech Hiking and Trekking in the Japan Alps and Mount Fuji: Northern, Central and Southern Alps Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China Hamish`s Mountain Walk &Climbing The Corbetts Mozart Cycle Tour: Salzburg – Berchetsgaden Alps – Chiemgau (350km) Bikeline Map/Guide ENGLISH Ed. Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London Snowdon & The Conway Valley AA Walker`s Map 4 Coast To Coast Walk: The Classic Walk Across Northern England Elmer`s Walk Churchill`s Britain: From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight Alps Mountain Biking: From Aosta to Zermatt: the Best Singletrack, Enduro and Downhill Trails in the Alps Walk This Underground World Alps – 100 Hut Walks John Merrill`s Surrey Hills Challenge Walk: 23 Mile Circular Challenge Walk Over the S.E. England`s Highest Hills, from Abinger A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Chasing Churchill Alps SkiRail Map English Hours Travels with Henry James