The National Park Guide: Europe South and Southwestern Europe, the Alps and Macaronesia

About this book

This is the most detailed and inspiring guidebook for hikers and nature lovers, describing all national parks in southwestern Europe, Macaronesia and the Alps. This book helps you to find the best place in this part of Europe with most orchids, most vultures, most wolves or most butterflies – or specific species if you are looking for such. The book contains more than 3,575 species of flora and fauna. This guidebook helps you to locate the best hiking trails or tours inside these parks and to find the hot spots. To find the journey that matches your wish. A total of 57 detailed maps quickly help you to locate the hot spots in these wilderness areas and ensure that your journey will be successful. A total of 336 journeys to real wilderness areas are described. Descriptions of the geology, flora and fauna help you to understand the specific conditions in each national park.

Contents

Spain:
1. Caldera de Taburiente
2. Garajonay
3. Teide
4. Timanfaya
5. Atlantic Island of Galicia
6. Picos de Europa
7. Ordesa y Monte Perdido
8. Aigüestortes
9. Sierra de Guadarrama
10. Monfragüe
11. Doñana
12. Cabañeros
13. Tablas de Daimiel
14. Sierra Nevada
15. Archipelago Cabrera

Portugal:
16. Peneda-Gerês

France:
17. Pyrénees
18. Cévennes
19. Calanques
20. Vanoise
21. Écrins
22. Mercantour
23. Port-Cros

Swiss:
24. Swiss

Germany:
25. Berchtesgaden

Austria:
26. Hohe Tauern
27. Kalkalpen
28. Gesäuse
29. Neusiedler-Seewinkel
30. Donau-Auen
31. Thayatal-Podyjí

Slovenia:
32. Triglav

Italy:
33. Gran Paradiso
34. Val Grande
35. Stelvio
36.  Dolomiti Bellunesi
37. Cinque Terre
38. Appennino Tosco-Emiliano
39. Foreste Casentinesi
40. Archipelago Toscano
41. Asinara
42. Maddalena
43. Sibillini
44. Gran Sasso
45. Majella
46. Abruzzo
47. Circeo
48. Gargano
49. Vesuvius
50. Alta Murgia
51. Appennino Lucarno
52. Cilento
53. Pollino
54. Sila
55. Aspromonte
56. Pantelleria

Malta:
57. Majjistral

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Biography

Brian Gade Larsen (1955) and Lone Ildved (1958) have travelled around southern and southwest Europe and the Canary Islands for eight years and visited all the 58 national parks described in their illustrated guidebook. They themselves have traced most of the trails described in the guidebook, and Lone has also taken some of the photos, that are in the guidebook.

Back in 2011, they wanted to do something else in their life than work within their former jobs. They wanted to travel, and they wanted to explore the wildest nature in Europe. They found it in the national parks.

Brian has written most of the texts in the book and Lone has been responsible for the graphic set-up as well as the communication in connection with the contact with the national parks. Brian has a background as a landscape architect, a forester and an amateur ornithologist. Lone has a master’s degree in religion and art history and many years of experience in the IT industry. This guidebook is a result of their combined skills, and their desire is to inspire others – young as well as middle-aged and older – to find their hiking boots and explore the wild nature in the national parks