Daniel McCrohan

Travel writer (China🇨🇳, India🇮🇳, Britain🇬🇧, Trans-Sib🚂); 50+ guidebooks for @lonelyplanet & @uktrailblazer; Chinese speaker; rickshaw rider; hiker; dad

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Updated by @danielmccrohan, the new edition of Dales Way has just arrived:
https://t.co/7N1f5zVF00

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Hot off the press, and in all good bookshops very soon.

The new North Devon Coast Path guide from @UKTrailblazer.

Words by me. Photos by my son. Ice-cream tasting by my daughter. #TeamEffort

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@tongbingxue I agree. Well worth seeking out if you're in Beijing. Here are some more pics..

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Didn't have time to tweet about our trip, I'm afraid. Take it as read, though; hiking and camping for six weeks in #Cornwall was pretty damn good...

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Just submitted my work for the new edition of @UKTrailblazer's Cornwall Coast Path book, and am so proud that the publisher has decided to use a photo of my daughter for the new front cover! Suffice to say, she's pretty chuffed too.
#Cornwall

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@SlowWaysUK Dorset... 🥾🥾

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@Andy_Murdock Someone... or something?!!

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@KnoydartJim Great pic, Jim.

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... No wonder he willingly past on the baton to his student-protégé John Minford for the final two volumes. Of course Cao Xueqin (or perhaps Gao E ?) is the real genius here, but what professors Hawkes and Minford did in the 70s and 80s was also a staggering achievement.
#红楼梦

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In reading-epic-novels-during-a-global-pandemic news, I’ve just finished the fifth and final volume of Cao Xueqin’s exquisite Chinese classic, The Story of the Stone (aka Dream of the Red Chamber). I’ve been slowly absorbing it over the course of the past six months...

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... Now try to imagine doing that for an 18th-century novel that's 2,524 pages long and sprinkled liberally with classical-form poetry. It took David Hawkes around 10 years to translate the first three volumes...

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@Andy_Murdock Love it. Similarly, I spotted this forlorn figure on my recent walk along the Dales Way, in rural Cumbria.

Nature taking back what it rightfully hers, I suppose.

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@fishjourner No! No more water!

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Just got back from walking The Dales Way for @UKTrailblazer. Could not have picked a wetter week! Fortunately I had all the gear...

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@authoradambray @UKTrailblazer Ha! Yes, perhaps.

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And then, wouldn't you just know it, the sun finally decides to come out, for a glorious #DalesWay farewell, right beside Lake Windermere..

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Made it!
Here I am (in surprisingly good spirits) at the end of a mostly rain-drenched, six-day, 81-mile jaunt along some of the most sumptuous (and waterlogged) valleys Britain has to offer.
#DalesWay

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It's important on these multi-day hikes to only ever pack the absolute essentials...

#DalesWay