New edition
- This is an anthology of 2, 000 years of Scottish history. ” History caught on the hoof & the wing by those who were
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A comprehensive guide to the Scottish part of the National Cycle Network. The book

Includes:: full route descriptions

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Double-sided road map of Scotland at 1:316, 800 from Collins, produced in association with Visit Scotl&. Cartography shows motorways, A & B roads, & selected minor roads. Junction & primary route numbers are indicated, as are gradients & toll points. Railway lines & stops, car & passenger ferry routes, & airports are highlighted. Topography is shown through spot heights, with national parks & forests marked. Recommended more for route-planning centred on tourist locations, the map has a wide variety of symbols to denote places of interest, including tourist information centres, museums, battlefields, art galleries, castles, historic houses, & much more. Enlargements of Edinburgh & Glasgow at Approx. 1:200, 000 show urban approaches in more detail, with a greater number of minor roads shown than on the main mapping, & more places of interest.A distance table is also included. The map is not indexed. ...

Scotland Whisky Map is a single-sided, illustrated sheet showing over one hundred of the country's major whisky distilleries & whisky-related sites, accompanied by background & historical information, & an extensive index listing names & contact details of the sites shown on the map. On a base map of Scotland showing motorways, A roads, the rail network, airports & tourist information centres, distilleries are displayed using a colour coding system to distinguish between those open to the public, those open to visits by arrangement & those closed to the public. These are all indexed in a table listing distillery names, regional classification & contact details. An inset for the Speyside area is shown at Approx. 1:300, 000, giving greater detail for an area where more than half of Scotland's whisky distilleries are located. Also
Includes:: Historical & background information focusing on the production & classification of Scotch whiskies. Whisky facts & figures. Images & descriptions of ten of the most successful Scotch whisky brands. Insets showing major export markets.
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Kirstie Shirra’s Cicerone guide to Scotland’s Best Mountains features profiles & ascent information of 40 mountains with peaks under 3000ft across the country, illustrated with Ordnance Survey mapping & presented with a range of routes to be undertaken, as well as alternatives for varying abilities. The introduction contains details of history, wildlife, logistics, weather, winter walking & mountain safety, & accommodation options. Sections then follow, broken down into seven regional groupings: Sutherland & the Far North, Torridon & the Northwest, Lochaber & the West, The Great Glen to the Cairngorms, Glencoe & Central Scotl&, Arrochar & the Trossachs & The Islands. Appendixes contain a bibliography, glossary, useful contacts & route summary details. The book sets out to champion some of the smaller, lesser known peaks not to have made it on to Sir Hugo Munro’s bagging list. Locations have been selected for their character, situation, views & beauty. Inspired by the very existence of Munro-bagging, the guide is in essence its very antidote. ...

In ” Scotland`s Empire”, T.M Devine tells the compelling story of Scotland`s role in forging & expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world`s population, & no people had made a more essential contribution than the Scots
- working across the globe as soldiers & merchants, administrators & clerics, doctors & teachers. In this widely praised book, T. M. Devine
- acclaimed author of ” The Scottish Nation” & ” To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland`s Global Diaspora”
- traces the vital part Scotland played in creating an empire
- & the fundamental effect this had in moulding the modern Scottish nation. ”A tour de force”... Tom Devine is the pre-eminent historian of modern Scotland”. (Niall Ferguson, author of ” Empire”). ” Captivating.. .tells the story of the Scots who put their marching boots on, or were forced into them, to start a new life abroad”. (Barclay Mc Bain, ” Herald”). ”A fascinating work, replete with telling detail”. (Allan Massie, ” Literary Review”).” Nobody has done more over the past thirty years to bring Scottish historiography into rigorous & unsentimental alignment with developments elsewhere than Tom Devine”. (Colin Kidd, ” The Times Literary Supplement”). ” Captivating.. .tells the story of the Scots who put their marching boots on, or were forced into them, to start a new life abroad”. (” Economist”). T.M. Devine, OBE is University Research Professor & Director of the Research Institute of Irish & Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His other books include ” The Scottish Nation” & ” To the Ends of the Earth”.



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Scotland’s Far West is Denis Brook & Phil Hinchcliffe’s Cicerone guide to the best walking opportunities on the Isles of Mull & Ardnamurchan. The guide covers Mull, Morvern, Ardnamurchan & Ardgour &

Includes:: routes rich in archaeology, geology & history. Naturalists will also be impressed with the islands’ flora & fauna. The guide is structured in seven main sections
- North Mull based in Tobermory, Central Mull (Craignure), South Mull (Bunessan), Iona, Morverm Ardgour, Sunart & Ardnamurchan, Lochaline, Stronitan & Salen. Each walk has an Information Box providing details on starting & finishing points, suggestions for alternative finishes, distance, features of the route & the relevant OS map. Gradient profiles for each route provide information on the height & distance of each walk. A detailed introduction gives practical guidance on accommodation, equipment, maps & navigation, weather & shops. Detailed walk descriptions are accompanied by Ordnance Survey extracts mapping he route as well as colour photographs illustrating some of the highlights of these remote regions in Scotland’s west.


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This is not a guide to the islands of Scotl&. This is not a tour to be followed, nor is it travel advice. This is a richly anecdotal & personal exploration. Richard Clubley shares the sense of freedom he finds in the Scottish islands as he discovers their individual character, beauty & diversity. He meets locals & learns a few realities of island life. He almost perished on Ailsa Craig, before finding fresh water dripping from the roof of a cave, but spends two idyllic nights alone on Mingulay, with a fabulous coal fire in a bothy. His passion for Scottish islands shines through every chapter. Curl up by the fire, pull the blanket close & sip on your dram. You`re about to escape to the islands. Prepare for addiction. A book for islomanes to savour in sips. Night caps are suggested; that way the addiction can be controlled. MAIRI HEDDERWICK ...

The new compact format paperback edition of the bestselling Scottish photography book. As the glaciers of the last Ice Age receded, humans ventured into the far north, exploring a wild, fertile territory. Nomadic hunter-gatherers at first, they made the decision to stay for good
- to farm & to build. The landscapes they lived on were remarkable in their diversity. Vast forests of pine & birch ran through one of the world`s oldest mountain ranges
- once as high as the Himalayas but over millennia scoured & compressed by sheets of ice a mile thick. On hundreds of islands around a saw-edged coastline, communities flourished, linked to each other & the wider world by the sea, the transport superhighway of ancient times. It was a place of challenges & opportunity. A place we know today as Scotl&. Over the past 10, 000 years, every inch of Scotland
- whether remote hilltop, fertile floodplain, or storm-lashed coastline
- has been shaped, changed & moulded by its people. No part of the land is without its human story. From Orkney`s immaculately preserved Neolithic villages to Highland glens stripped of nineteenth century settlements, from a Skye peninsula converted to an ingenious Viking shipyard, to a sheer Hebridean clifftop used as the site of a spectacular lighthouse, Scotland`s history is written into its landscapes in vivid detail. ” Scotland`s Landscapes” tells the enduring story of this interaction between man & his environment. stunning new imagery from the National Collection of Aerial Photography comes together to build up a picture of a dramatic terrain forged by thousands of years of incredible change. These are Scotland`s landscapes as you have never seen or understood them before.



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The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognised by Agricola in the first century AD (parts of its most northerly portion mark the furthest north the Romans got) it divides the country both geologically & culturally, signalling the border between highland & lowl&, Celtic & English-speaking, crofting & farming. In Scotland`s Last Frontier best-selling author Alistair Moffat makes a journey of the imagination, tracing the route of the Line from the River Clyde through Perthshire & the north-east. In addition to exploring the huge importance of the Line over almost two thousand years, he also shows how it continues to influence life & attitudes in 21st-century Scotl&. The result is a fascinating book, full of history & anecdote. ...