About the Author

A dedicated lifelong walker, Sandra worked in Melbourne, Australia, as an archivist and historian after doing a PhD on the history of national parks in her home state of Victoria. In her spare time she wrote a regular column about bushwalking (hiking) in Melbourne's leading daily newspaper.

Sandra moved to Scotland in 1989, and she still lives beside Loch Ness. In recent years she has written guidebooks for Lonely Planet (Italy, Ireland, France, Scotland, Australia, 1998-2007), Rucksack Readers (England, Ireland and Scotland) and Sunflower Books (Croatia and Poland-Slovakia, 2006). She completed the Coast to Coast walk in June 2009 for her guidebook of that name.

After a long career in education, information technology and academic publishing, Jacquetta Megarry discovered long-distance walking and trekking at altitude. After completing the West Highland Way, her first long walk, in 1998 she progressed to Mount Kilimanjaro, which she has summited four times by four different routes. She is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild and in 2016 won its Award for Excellence with Trek to Everest.

In 2000 she launched the rainproof Rucksack Reader format with built-in maps for guidebooks. The first two titles, Speyside Way and West Highland Way were soon followed by a further 40 guidebooks. Of these, she has either written or co-authored 24, as well as editing them all and creating frequent revised editions of earlier books.

Over the years, she has walked and re-walked most of Scotland's Great Trails and many of England's National Trails. in 2017 she created the website Scotlands Great Trails in partnership with Scottish Natural Heritage (now NatureScot).

Reviews

Rucksack Readers is a specialist guidebook publisher with a very creditable range of products. These include four guides to Irish long-distance walks, one of which is the Dingle Way, which I used myself some years ago, and found to be one of the best walking guides I had ever handled.
*Irish Mountain Log, Summer 2014, page 51*

The detail in this book convinced us that we could actually go do the trek. We bought two other books on walks in Ireland and none of the others were nearly as good as this one for the Dingle Way. The others were more overviews. This was a very specific trail guide with precise distances, markers, turns etc.
*Amazon customer review*

The indispensable guide for the Dingle Way ... water-resistant pages in a ring binder, with color photos and good maps.
*Washington Times Special 22 July 2006*