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More risk, less health and safety .... |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
Trust me, we need more risk, less health and safety, says new chief Sir Simon Jenkins, in the library at National Trust headquarters, wants its properties to feel less like museums Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor [Full story The Times online]
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Campaign for Adventure - Book reviews |
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
Book Reviews: How to live dangerously by Warwick Cairns, Macmillan, London, 2008. ISBN 978-0-230-71221-8. 188 pages. Licensed to hug by Frank Furedi and Jennie Bristow, Civitas, London, 2008. ISBN 978 1 903386 70 5. 64 pages. These are both excellent books, worth reading by all who prize adventure and challenge. Warwick Cairns has collected a comprehensive list of statements from research and official reports and written a story round them which I found quite enthralling. His book is full of counter-intuitive statements, such as ‘The safest way to get from home to your workplace down a busy road on which cyclists have been killed is on your bike. Without a helmet.’ The type of arguments he uses to support such counter-intuitive statements will be familiar to those who have read Marcus Bailie’s articles on adventurous activities. Do you know what is the most dangerous sport? Mountaineering, perhaps? No: angling! |
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