Publications
Links to Tony's two books available directly from Vertebrate Publishing:
Troll Wall and Quest into the Unknown
Magazines, journals, newspapers and on-line sites that we have contributed to in UK unless otherwise stated:
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Oct 2019. 'Quest' has been Highly Recommended by the Outdoor Book Awards, OWPG. It's also getting good reviews, on Amazon and Footless Crow, see: http://footlesscrow.blogspot.com/2019/03/tony-howards-quest-into-unknownreview.html Our Books and Guide Books and an interview with Tony for Engaging Cultures, also a video by Vertebrate Publishing that might be of interest. And a podcast by Tony for Coldhouse prior to publication of his autobiography, Quest into the Unknown. Also on this BMC page 1965 Rock Climbs in the Peak - Chew Valley, BMC publications. (Main author) ------------------------------------------------------ A word from us: when writing our guides – particularly when describing the Bedouin routes in Wadi Rum - we have always tried to give enough information to identify the routes whilst still leaving the reader room to exercise his or her own judgement when following them, since we feel that the joy of discovery is part of the essence of these routes, a philosophy which we are pleased to note is stated in the Biella Principles, mountainwilderness.org, in particular, para 2.5, “We must also question whether the proliferation of technical descriptions and guidebooks represents a potential threat to wilderness values, by considerably reducing the possibility of personal discovery and the incomparable satisfaction derived thereby.” |
Tony's autobiography, Quest into the Unknown was published April 2019. Available from your bookshop, or Amazon. "Tony Howard's and Di Taylor's guidebooks for Jordan - both the general one for scrambling, canyoning, trekking and the climbing one for Rum - are excellent. Describing routes up, through, over and round the maze of domes and siqs that make the Jordanian mountains so attractive is no simple task - I've tried! Tony's climbing descriptions may look hard to follow, but once you use them on the hill, you'll realise that they are miniature masterpieces. Not only do they capture the poetry of the landscape and of the Bedouin climbing imagination, but they also tune your eye to make your own explorations."
Andrew Moore, Oxford
Review of Treks and Climbs in Wadi Rum, 2007
A thorough and excellent guide covering a large number of routes from very technical ones to more mountainous Bedouin routes. Drawn topos/maps are clear though not overly detailed like many of the modern guides which would definitely take away a lot of the atmosphere from the area.
Paul Winder, in UK Climbing
Troll Wall Book Review. Jim Perrin, Climber Feb 2012
…Next in line off the presses came Troll Wall from Tony Howard, one of the significant and inclusive figures in British climbing over the last fifty years, which recounted the epochal ascent by Rimmon Club members of Norway’s Troll Wall in 1965. One of the most vivid accounts of big wall climbing ever written, the manuscript had languished in a drawer for over 40 years until it was brought to the attention of the excellent Jon Barton and his crew at Vertebrate Publishing in Sheffield.
If you’ve not already done so, get hold and read – you’ll not find a more plainly exciting narrative in its genre. The midnight push for the top up the summit gully had me open-mouthed and breathless. Nothing written by Andy Cave, Andy Kirkpatrick, Mick Fowler or any other recent exponents of mountain writing – excellent though many of them are – comes close to the sheer edgy thrill of it.
Below Two magazines with covers and articles of ours on Jordan and Wadi Rum
Trek & Mountain, March 2014
Adventure Travel
A new guide from Cockerel Books to three crags we discovered whilst walking our local hills and moors during the Covid years 2021/2022.