Taipei Escapes I & II

The two volumes that make up Taipei Escapes are based on my first two books, Taipei Day Trips 1 and 2. Some of the walks and day trips from those earlier two books (revised, with many route changes) reappear in Taipei Escapes, and these are joined by over twenty completely new routes (both walks and day trips) exploring places that have been opened up to hikers and visitors only after the two Taipei Day Trips were published, or are new personal discoveries.

Together, the two volumes of Taipei Escapes comprise forty sections covering walks in northern Taiwan, and twenty sections with detailed information on many day trips in the area. All the places described are accessible by public transport. Yangmingshan National Park is now covered in a separate book, Yangmingshan: the Guide.

Photos of the trips in the two books, plus updates to the information in the books are available on a separate Website at: http://taipeiescapes.wordpress.com/

Hi and thanks for visiting!

I'm a musician (a pianist) and writer who's been living in Taiwan since 1993. This blog is a new attempt to document my travels all over Taiwan and the outlying islands. I have written five books (Taipei Day Trips I and II, Yangmingshan: the Guide, and Taipei Escapes I and II, with a sixth, a guide to Taiwan's offshore islands, on the way in 2012). Most of my post-April 2010 trips will hopefully appear here, along with some favorite past explorations, many of which are based on articles from a column I wrote (called 'Off the Beaten Track') for the China Post newspaper, here in Taiwan.

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1 Mariska March 11, 2012 at 10:13 am

Hi Richard,
I would like to buy these books, but I don’t have time to travel to Taipei to go to some bookstore. Is there any way to buy the books online and have them send to me?
Kind regards,
Mariska

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