A follow up to the BAFTA award-winning series 'Coast', this series follows intrepid traveller Nick Crane (Coast, Map Man) as he retraces the steps taken by Britain's greatest indigenous explorers. Over eight episodes, screened by the BBC, Crane travels by foot, horse and bicycle, through our wildest landscapes. He follows eight historical journeys into uncharted territory, exploring both physical and human landscapes and revealing defining periods of social and industrial change. Includes 30 minutes of unseen material.

In the book Nick picks eight of the most interesting traveller-chroniclers to have explored and reported on the state of the nation from Gerald of Wales who embarked on a seven week journey around the wild perimeter of Wales in March 1188 to HV Morton, the journalist and travel writer who crossed the length and breadth of England by car in the 1920s. Others include Celia Fiennes who started her many journeys around Britain on horseback in the late 1600s at the age of 20, Tudor antiquarian John Leland, Daniel Defoe, William Cobbett, Thomas Pennant, and William Gilpin, who travelled through the north of England by boat in 1770.

A follow up to the BAFTA award-winning series 'Coast'