Cotentin. In her new book, Camille Cédra makes a declaration of love to the Hague

Camille Cédra loves the Hague (Manche), a passion that her father Lucien, farmer in Éculleville and passionate about nature, passed it on to him.

After a first work “Present of a childhood past in Éculleville in the Hague” released in 2020, then “Éculleville, geography, heritage and history of a commune in the Hague” published in 2023, this time, Camille Cédra offers the “ Insights from a hiker in the Hague “.

176 pages for 200 photos

Here, history, heritage, nature, discoveries, favorites are described and told over the course of 176 pages abundantly illustrated with more than 200 photos. “A pocket size to put it inside a backpack. »

This little piece of Normandy has a past, diversity and landscape beauty.

Countless notes

At the start of this work, these are countless notes And written sheets for many years for families and friends who are welcomed by Camille Cédra and whom he accompanies on walks and outings in the Hague for over forty years.

The idea was to bring them together and put together a book to help people discover and get to know this beautiful peninsula shaped by nature and its inhabitants over time.

The different chapters are mainly devoted to natural heritage and particularly to that of coastal areas.

This is not a hiking guide

For Camille Cédra, it is not a guide to hiking or heritage riches with its castles, churches and old residences, but a beautiful love story given in the Hague with analyzes and personal observations where the different themes are developed using bibliographic summaries, of historical reminders, references to sources always credited and sometimes questions.

“ The claim of this book is very modest : to provide the curious hiker with cultural, technical or historical insights, certainly fragmentary or incomplete, but likely to reveal the atmosphere and spirit of these fascinating places which some sometimes describe as a furious beauty. »

A geographic map

This story, but also this great walk in the Hague, begins with a geographic map to locate this place at the western tip of Cotentin then continues in its first pages with its exceptional geological footprint which tells nearly 2.1 billion years of Earth’s history.

“ The term Hague comes from the Norman Hagi which could mean fence or enclosure. »

Known places and more discreet places intersect like the bay of Ecalgrain (Auderville) and the Gélétan rock (Saint-Germain-des-Vaux) but also the memory of old buildings with the tower of the Masse mill in Digulleville or the farm of Cotentine (Omonville-la-Rogue) which are always embellished with texts and stories.

The low walls of La Hague lead to the SNSM of Goury with between trails of littoral And pebbles, of the wild plants are clinging to the rocks which are next to algae and inhabitants of the foreshore.

“The Hague, an open-air history book”

Eleven chapters and their variations make up “Regards d’un randonneur dans la Hague” with lots of information where nature, flora and fauna, customs officers’ paths and trails, the sea and its coastline, and many other subjects invite you to go backpacking and hiking shoes. hikes for beautiful discoveries that breathe iodine, the wind, an atmosphere with landscape and human richness. “From my point of view, there is no more beautiful place. »

From our correspondent Philippe QUEVASTRE

“Respects of a hiker in La Hague” is available at the Super U in Beaumont-Hague (Manche) and at Tourp, maison de la Hague as well as at the Ryst bookstore and at the Fnac in Cherbourg (Manche).

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