Pyrenees Walks & Drives

Paul Jenner and Christine Smith. 136 pages. 2011.

This pocket-size full colour guide covers car tours, walks and picnic in the entire range - France, Spain and Andorra. There are well over 400 kilometres (250 miles) of walks in this guide, the equivalent of a coast-to-coast traverse - one of the 'classics' for all serious walkers. But you don't have to be an expert walker for any of hikes we describe. None of them requires special skills (under summer conditions), and there are short walk suggestions with most of the itineraries).

The Canal Du Midi: A Cruiser's Guide

Bernd W Kiessler. 144 pages. 2009.

This handy-sized guidebook has all the information boaters need to navigate the canal, and is packed with cruising and background information about each stage. There are enticing colour photos and distance maps of each section, showing locks, bridges and yacht havens. This book will accompany sailors and motorboaters all the way, enabling them to make the most of their journey down one of the most famous canals in the world.

Walking in the Languedoc

32 Routes in Haute Languedoc, Cicerone Guide, 2007

This guidebook details 31 walks in the Languedoc region of France, north of Beziers. Much of this area forms the Parc Naturel du Haut-Languedoc, at the heart of which is the stunning Espinouse massif, rising abruptly some 850m from the valley floor. Close by is the valley of Lac du Salagou, an enormous man-made lake surrounded by impressive hills. A little further east is the valley of the river Herault, which provides the explorer with wonderful limestone gorges, caves and cliffs. All three of these areas are well provided with footpaths on which it is rare to see another human being; and, because this is France, a fine dinner awaits you at the end of the day. All the walks described are circular.

Walks and Climbs in the Pyrenees

Cicerone Guides, 2008

Guidebook of walks and climbs in the Pyrenees with over 170 day walks, multi-day walks, climbing routes and mountaineering ascents. Covers all valleys and peaks from France and Spain, with through routes and peaks to bag.

Cycling Southern France

Loire to Mediterranean, 2008

A comprehensive guide to major leisure cycle routes south of, and including, France's Loire Valley. All major traffic-free and signed touring routes are included with a factfile and description of what to see along the way. Crucially, you will find quality 1:200,000 scale Michelin mapping of all major routes. Background info on such topics as how to take your bike on French trains. Full colour illustrations.

Cycling the Canal Du Midi

Cicerone Guides, 2009

A guide to cycle touring along the Canal du Midi in the sunny Languedoc region of southern France. It's ideal for anyone planning a cycling holiday, English-speaking residents of the region who want to explore or anyone passing through on the canal who wants to stretch their legs a little by bike . The book describes the main canal (240km) and its Narbonne extension (37km), with excursions to the Cathar strongholds of Minerve and Lastours, the canal's water source in the Montagne Noire and the lagoons and marshes in the Aude and Orb delta. It highlights the attractions of cities and towns along the way such as Toulouse, Carcassonne, Beziers and Sete, and gives practical information about accommodation, cycle shops, markets and festivals along the route

Languedoc Driving Guide

Thomas Cook, 2011

No touring holiday is complete without one of these essential guides. The driving guides series holds a range of 23 titles offering an extensive list of destinations for you to choose from.They contain everything the self-drive traveller needs en route, with exciting detours away from the main tourist trail.

Perpignan walking and hiking map

Foldable map. 2006. Free distance ruler included.

TOP 25 maps (maps where the code ends in "T") are for places of 'intéresse aux touristes'. They are real walkers' maps with a wide variety of useful information on paths and tracks such as, long distance GR (Grande Randonnée) routes, interesting unsignposted ways along footpaths, cross-country or high mountain skiing routes, hard parts of a hiking trail, restricted zones, huts and mountain refuges. This map comes supplied with a handy distance measuring ruler, specifically printed for use with 1:25 000 scale mapping, which when placed onto the map allows the user to instantly read off point to point distances (as the crow flies) in either miles or kilometres. The reverse shows the more important items from the Top25 map legend.

Walking in the Cathar Region

Alan Mattingly. 208 pages. 2005.

The guide offers 30 walks based on the once strategically important castles that dominate the foothills of the Pyrenees. Each walk has as its focal point a castle or other location associated with Cathar history (mostly the 13th century). Summaries of the historical connections of each location with the Cathar period are given, and together these relate the story of the downfall of the Cathar Church, from the massacre in Béziers in 1209 to the siege at Montségur in 1244, which ended with the burning alive of over 200 believers who refused to renounce their Cathar faith.

Walking in the Cevennes

Cicerone Guide, 2002

An introductory guidebook to the best walking in the Cevennes region of southern France, describing 16 day-walks in the southern Cevennes (based around Le Vignan), 15 day-walks in the northern Cevennes (based around Florac) and a 5-day trek around Mont Lozere. Although just across the River Rhone from Provence, the Cevennes is one of France's wild and unknown regions. Resembling the Scottish Highlands in places (similar in height at a maximum of 1567m, but warmer and with fewer midges), the region includes the 230,000 sq km Parc National des Cevennes and the upper reaches of the Tarn gorge.

Languedoc-Roussillon : 50 randonnées

50 randonnées sélectionnées dans l'arrière-pays et sur la côte [French]. 2008.

50 selected walks in the countryside and along the coast of the Languedoc-Roussillon region. This walk guide book is in French.

Walk! The Cathar Way

Kindle Only, 2013

A full guide to the Cathar Way, a 250 kilometre trail crossing the Languedoc region of southern France from the foothills of the Pyrenees to the shores of the Mediterranean. Above all, we visit a succession of castles, each perched more improbably than the last on craggy peaks, castles whose evocative ruins have proved so compelling that they have conspired with history to stimulate our collective appetite for quests, mysteries and quixotic exploits.

Aude Pays cathare - walks

Christophe Levillain. French. 2011.

20 walks within the Aude, Corbêres and foothills of the Pyrénées.

Corbières Fenouillèdes : Balades et randonnées à pied

Chamina. French. 2001.

French guide to 36 walks in the beautiful Corbières region of the Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales departments.

Carcassonne walking map

Foldable map. French. 2011.

Map of the area north of Carcassonne city showing the best walks in that region.