GRITSTONE author Colin Speakman has won the Golden Eagle award for ‘Outstanding Services to the Outdoors’ at the meeting of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild.
Colin is a prolific writer, environmentalist, academic and broadcaster. He was presented with a specially commissioned painting of Ingleborough by artist and environmentalist, David Bellamy.
A co-creator of the 50-year-old Dales Way, Colin has written nearly 60 books covering walking and history, transport guides, biographies, poems and fiction. He has recently been described as one of 20 of Britain’s all-time “Walking Heroes”.
His recent publication was a biography of John Phillips, the influential 19th-century Yorkshire scientist who completed the first detailed geological surveys of the Yorkshire Coast and the Yorkshire Dales and who helped establish the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
His new book Yorkshire: Ancient Kingdom, Future Province will be launched at a special event at Bradford university next month.
Gritstone Publishing is Britain’s first publishing co-operative run by authors and specialises in publishing non-fiction and fiction titles relating to the landscape and the countryside.
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