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Andrew Bibby is a professional writer and journalist, working as an independent consultant for a number of international and national organisations, and as a regular contributor to British national newspapers and magazines. He is also the author of a number of books. He has undertaken work in recent years for, among others, the International Labour Organization, the European Commission, UK Department of Trade and Industry, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Union Network International and the International Cooperative Alliance. His journalism has appeared in, among other places, The Observer, the Independent, The Guardian and Financial Times. Home page, Andrew Bibby Other sections of this website
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Enjoying the outdoors
Andrew Bibby writes: Since I live in a beautiful area of England, I am fortunate that I am able to combine work with pleasure. As well as my other work featured on this website, I am also the author of a number of books for walkers and lovers of the outdoors. The details of these publications are given below.
JUST PUBLISHED (March 2008)
The Backbone of England: Landscape and life on the Pennine watershed
"In this wonderful book Andrew Bibby... not only helps us to savour the Pennine landscape; he helps us to understand it, and he urges us to cherish it. He shows us how this land was formed, what has happened and is happening to it, and – in a thoroughly un-preachy kind of way – why it matters. This is a book of enjoyment and of revelation." - Chris Smith (Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury)
Extracts from the book available here.
Freedom to Roam Guides
I am the series editor of a new collection of books produced to celebrate the arrival in England of the right to roam at will in open country; I am also the author of five of the titles in this series. The books are published by Frances Lincoln Ltd in conjunction with the Ramblers' Association.
OCT 2006: Wensleydale and Swaledale named as Guidebook of the Year in the Outdoor Writers' Guild annual awards
Published in March 2006:
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- Wharfedale and Nidderdale (the southern Yorkshire Dales)
- Wensleydale and Swaledale (the northern Yorkshire Dales)
Published in March 2005:
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- South Pennines and the Bronte Moors
- Forest of Bowland with Pendle Hill and West Pennine Moors
- The Pennine Divide
Reviews include: Guardian, Yorks Evening Post, Halifax Courier.
Walking in Purbeck (Dovecote Press)
This book has been in print for over fifteen years, a tribute perhaps to the continuing popularity for walkers of the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, on England's south coast. The third, entirely revised edition, of the book was published by Dovecote Press in Spring 2004.
Selected journalism on an outdoors theme:
- London blind ramblers (Choice, 2008)
- Looking after Britain's landscapes (Choice, 2007)
- Walking the Bronte moors (Country Walking, 2007)
- Kinder Scout 75 years after (TGO magazine, 2007)
- Access walking in the North Pennines (walk magazine, 2006)
- Natural England's Sir Martin Doughty: a new champion for the English countryside? (interview) (walk magazine, 2006)
- Walking in the Forest of Bowland (Country Walking, 2006)
- Making the most of the new 'right to roam' (Choice, 2005)
- The Six Trigs challenge walk
- Enjoying access in the Isle of Purbeck (Walk, 2004)
- These moors are ours (Rambling Today, 1996)
- The ice-axe man cometh (Independent on Sunday, 1995)
- Nidderdale's natural beauty (Independent, 1994)
- Paying respects to Churn Milk Joan (Independent, 1993)
- A walk from Worth Matravers (Independent, 1993)
- Benny Rothman and the campaign for access (Rambler, 1992)
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