RIVER MAP. By Jim Perrin. Photographed by John Beatty.

(2001) 2002 2nd edition. Oblong large 8vo (249 x 177mm). Pp60. Colour photographs by John Beatty throughout. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Nice photographs by John Beatty illustrating Perrin's description of his "journey made on foot through months of seasonal change from the estuary ofthe River Dee to its source high in the most remote Welsh mountains, and the remarkable discovery [he] made there". Chapters include: February, an ending or a beginning?; March, 'the land that is afar off'; April, rights of passage; May, in Edeyrnion; June, faultlines; July, the source; Epilogue, Epiphany 2001; Envoi, a different approach.