The Peak District is one of Britain's most popular National Parks. But how well do we really know it? Caught between two of the country's largest cities, it is a place of stark beauty and starker contradictions, where caves, chasms and ruins exist improbably alongside the industrial behemoth of the Hope Cement Works.

In The Peak District: An unguided tour, writer, walker and photographer Paul Dobraszczyk takes readers on an exhilarating journey through this familiar-unfamiliar world. Paying close attention to the language that has been used to describe it - from moors and tors to paths and rivers, farms and mills - he asks what the landscape does to our minds and what we do to it in return.

Blending travelogue, nature writing, history, geology and folklore, Dobraszczyk offers a new way of seeing the Peak District, reminding us of its strangeness and of the multitude of other things in the landscape besides ourselves.