You should be used to walking hilly terrain.
We had barely left the main A846 road, but the pitted, boggy terrain was already proving to be a challenge.
Extremists do, as Cameron said, "thrive when they have ungoverned spaces in which they can exist, build and plan" and the aftermath of the Arab spring has not just opened up new terrain but also exacerbated existing problems of lawlessness and criminality.
Mawle offered to show me his grouse moor, and so we clambered into a noisy Kawasaki all-terrain vehicle driven by Neil Taylor, Mawle's Scottish gamekeeper.
The struggle between Catholics and Protestants, and the national and international intrigue surrounding the French throne in the early 17th century, are the terrain for one of the most famous adventure stories ever written.
And the sunny terrain surrounding the foggy city bursts with fertility – and it's not just grapes.
The irony is that there was nothing inevitable about the arrival of the British and Irish governments on this absurdist terrain.
I came to know the cartographer, artist and writer Tim Robinson, who has spent 40 years documenting the terrain of the west of Ireland: a region where, as he puts it, "the landscape … speaks Irish".
In another of his Hebridean poems, MacCaig commended the "seagull voice" of his Gaelic Aunt Julia, so rooted in the terrain of Harris that she came to think with and speak in its birds and climate.
The terrain about which Baker wrote with such committing force was the coastal Essex of saltings, spinneys, sea walls and mudflats.
I organised my growing word-hoard into nine glossaries, divided according to terrain-type: Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands.
