Outdoor Focus Spring 2020 | Page 9

< São Lourenço on the island of Santa Maria GUIDEBOOKS - IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION 1 Madeira three editions 2 Canary Islands - West out of print 3 Canary Islands - East out of print 4 La Gomera & El Hierro two editions 5 La Palma two editions 6 Tenerife two editions and one translation 7 Gran Canaria two editions 8 Lanzarote & Fuerteventura two editions and one translation 9 Trekking in the Canary Islands new for 2020 10 Azores new for 2020 Lagoa do Fogo in the mountains of São Miguel Lobos is a small island off Fuerteventura Pico, on the island of Pico, is Portugal’s highest peak it amounts to just two years on the islands and rather less time spent shuffling the paperwork at home, spread across twenty years. That’s left me plenty of time to work on maybe eighty other guidebook titles, spreading northwards through Europe and Britain to the Arctic. I do have a rather relentless and ruthlessly efficient method where ‘working’ and ‘walking’ are pretty much the same thing, and time spent on the trails is the most important thing. www.paddydillon.co.uk THE ISLANDS - IN ORDER OF EXPLORATION Madeira 11 Lanzarote 1 Madeira 12 Graciosa 2 Porto Santo 3 Desertas Azores Canary Islands 13 São Miguel 14 Santa Maria 4 El Hierro 15 Corvo 5 La Palma 16 Flores 6 La Gomera 17 Faial 7 Tenerife 18 Terceira 8 Gran Canaria 19 Graciosa 9 Fuerteventura 20 São Jorge 10 Lobos 21 Pico spring 2020 | Outdoor focus 11 9