The Mountains Are Calling

Running in the High Places of Scotland

By: Jonny Muir

Narrated by: Sam Devereaux

Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's Summary

The Mountains Are Calling is the exhilarating story of the runners who go to high places. 

From its wild origins in the Highlands, hill running in Scotland remains as pure and traditional as sport gets. Jonny Muir explores the history and culture of the sport and meets the legends of hill running, who are revered for their extraordinary endurance. As he discovers the insatiable lure of the hills, a calling leads him to the supreme test of mountain running: Ramsay's Round, a continuous loop of 23 of Scotland highest mountains, to be completed within 24 hours.

©2018 Jonny Muir (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd

it has nothing for runner or any story

If you are a runner, you look for some information for running. Stay away from this book. If you are looking for a good story or novel, give this guy a big dirty boot. Just filled with words and lots of male cow droppings.

Should have bought a hard copy

Narrators pronunciation of the Scottish locations and some words in this book varies, and in some places its absolutely awful. It can be quite off putting, although the content of the actual book is very good. Should have bought a hard copy.

Great book about Scottish Hill running

I had a hard copy of this book already and loved it so when I saw you could get the audio version at a great price I went for it as I like audio books /podcasts while driving or out walking sometimes.
This wonderful book was spoiled somewhat by the narrator’s dreadful pronunciation of Scottish places, names and gaelic words. Coupled with cringemaking attempts at local accents sadly reduced my enjoyment of this audio book. At times it sounded as though the book was being read by a ‘sat nav’ computerised voice. Really weird.
I prefer audio books to be read by the author wherever possible but I appreciate not everyone has the ability to create an effective voice over. Maybe I’m being picky but I want to hear the correct pronounciation of places and names regardless of the country of origin.
Otherwise a very entertaining and inspiring book which I recommend to everyone interested in hills and running.

Should have read the book!

Fantastic recollection of Scottish Hill running folk lore. Should have read the book though as the pronunciation of some simple words and more complex Welsh and Scottish place names is really poor, which, for a book about Scotland, is inexcusable.

So disapiinted

A born and bred Scot living in Scotland and a lover or hill running and the outdoor life this book was a perfect fit for me. Or so I thought.

The subject matter, the story and the experiences are all great. However, the audiobook was spoiled hugely by the narrator. The Scottish runners were all portrayed by the narrator trying to perform a Scottish accent. It resulted in a cartoon character portrayal of the language.

To make matters worse place names were continually mispronounced. I can accept that the Gaelic is not easy. I would pronounce those names incorrectly too, I'm sure. There is no excuse for place names in the English language being mispronounced, especially by a British narrator.

That aside the subject matter was interesting the peoples experiences and challenges they took on inspiring. Maybe the narration will not irritate a non Scot as much as it annoyed me. I listened to the whole book and have not returned it because I liked the literary content so buy it by all means. Please though, Amazon, do not have narrators doing accents when they lack the ability to do so. If that factor had been acknowledged it would have been 5 stars all round.

Great book, poor narration....

A very good book made very poor with the narrators pronunciation of the Scottish place names!

Fantastic book

Really really enjoyed this book. Downloaded it on a whim and have since started hill running although admittedly feel like I have run a Ramsey’s round after a single mile. Genuinely loved everything about the book and the narration.

Inspiring

I enjoyed this book on my fjellruns. It could have been even longer. Great listen!

it's a no from me

I will probably buy the book, I just can't listen to the pronunciation which at times is awful at best. Good story worth completing but better read than heard.

terrible narration

wish I had read this rather than listened. the narrator cannot pronounce any of the place names, and his attempts at scottish accents are painful. inspiring story though.

Good listen, terrible pronunciation

Overall this was an enjoyable listen, the pronunciation of the Munros was absolutely hill areas.