I’m a geek. I love sciency geek, especially palaeontology. Geology and MTB sit well together. Yesterday I was up in Gwynedd meeting family and I was given a HMSO guide to the geology of the Welsh Borderland. Nothing special I thought, I’ll browse through it later.
Published in 1970 the content is now somewhat dated but oh my word, as a publication it’s a work of art. Monochrome and colour photographic plates, surveys, cross sections, colour and b&w maps and plans, gorgeous illustrations of fossils and all 120 pages fully indexed too. Price is 8s 0d (40p) NET. At current rates, £7.75.