No touring holiday is complete without one of these essential guides. The driving guides series holds a range of 23 titles offering an extensive list of destinations for you to choose from. They contain everything the self-drive traveller needs en route with exciting detours away from the main tourist trail. ...

Like a fine single malt Scotland is a connoisseur s delight an intoxicating blend of stunning scenery & sophisticated cities ...

Its long been acknowledged that Scotlands great outdoors is one of its biggest visitor attractions & that one of the best ways of experiencing its awesome scenery is on a camping motorhome or caravan holiday. However there is an extensive range of campsites & caravan parks to choose from perhaps making the decision over where to stay a more difficult or confusing one. Scotland Campsites & Caravan Parks map is the most comprehensive directory for tent motor-home & caravan travellers in Scotland & a practical resource either for those planning to visit Scotland for the first time or those with some knowledge of the country. Alongside displaying the locations of over 400 sites this easy to use touring map provides essential information on the units accepted at each site along with contact details. Other facilities for each site such as pets allowed are also noted. The map which folds to a handy travel size also features airports roads rail & ferry routes & helpfully lists cycle routes long distance footpaths & national parks for the travellers convenience. It has a protective cover to withstand weather conditions while in Scotl&. This is the 2nd edition of the map which has been updated to indicate sites which are open all year round. ...

By walking all the way through Scotland from Kirk Yetholm in the Borders to Cape Wrath in the far North-West author & broadcaster Cameron Mc Neish witnesses at first hand the changes that have taken place in the landscapes of the country of his birth. From the rolling history drenched hills of the Borders he experiences the de-industrialisation of the Union & Forth & Clyde Canals between Edinburgh & Glasgow & the massive popularity of long distance walking on routes like the West Highland Way. Throughout the central highlands he records the changing use of landscape from the Romans to the contemporary shooting estates to the advent of Scotlands two National Parks & further north he walks in the footsteps of cattle drovers Jacobite armies poets & priests. But its north of the Great Glen that he records the biggest changes from the horrors of the Highland Clearances to large scale sheep farming & from the Victorian shooting estates to large scale wind farm industrialisation. But through all the changes one thing remains constant the natural beauty the grandeur & the sensational wildlife that makes Scotland one of the finest wildlife tourism destinations in the world. First of all I believed passionately that Scotland should have a long-distance trail that ran the length of the country " said Cameron "and secondly I wanted to walk through my own country of birth simply to get to know it better to weigh up aspects of its character & culture to remind myself of its history & factions its nuances & its remarkable diversity of landscape at a time when this small nation was beginning a process of re-discovery & questioning if it could go it alone outside the comfort zone of the UK. I wanted to re-discover this land of my birth for myself especially those areas that I wasnt so familiar with. To link the all various routes together has been the challenge of the Gore-Tex[registered] Scottish National Trail a route that I believe can stand comparison with the best walking routes anywhere in the world." The book is gloriously illustrated throughout by the photographs of landscape photographer Richard Else. It is a lavish book to keep & treasure. It is a celebration of all thats best about Scotl&." ...

An engaging new collection of recent plays from Scotl&.
Includes:: Wormwood by Catharine Czerkawaska; Brothers of Thunder
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When Scotland Yards first detective branch was set up in 1842 crime was very different from today. The favoured murder weapon was the cut-throat razor; carrying a pocket watch was dangerous; the most significant clue at a murder scene could be the whereabouts of a candlestick or hat; large households (family servants & lodgers) complicated many a case & servants sometimes murdered their masters. Detectives had few aids & suffered many disadvantages. The bloody handprints found at two early murder scenes were of no help there being no way of telling whether blood (or hair) was human or animal. Fingerprinting was fifty years away DNA profiling another hundred & photography was too new to help with identification. The detectives had no transport & were expected to walk the first three miles on any enquiry before catching an omnibus or cab & trying to recoup the fares. All reports had to be handwritten with a dip pen & ink & the only means of keeping contact with colleagues & disseminating information was by post horseback or foot. In spite of these handicaps & severe press criticism the detectives achieved some significant successes. Joan Lock

Includes:: such classic cases as the First Railway Murder as well as many fascinating fresh reports weaving in new developments like the electric telegraph against a background of authentic Victorian police procedure. Charles Dickens said that Scotland Yard detectives gave the impression of leading lives of strong mental excitement. Readers of this book will understand why...

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When the Second World War ended England was bombed-out & starving with practically every saleable commodity rationed. It was the age of austerity & criminal opportunity. Thieves broke into warehouses hi-jacked lorries & ransacked railway yards to feed the black market; others stole recycled or forged ration coupons. Scotland Yard was 6 000 men under strength but something dramatic had to be done
- & it was. Four of the Yards best informed detectives were summoned to form the Special Duties Squad which became widely known as the Ghost Squad. They were told: Go out into the underworld. Gather your informants. Do whatever is necessary to ensure that the gangs are smashed up. We will never ask you to divulge your sources of information. But remember
- you must succeed. They did. Divisional Detective Inspector Jack Capstick a brilliant thief-taker & informant runner Detective Inspector Henry Clark who knew the south London villains as few other detectives did & in addition possessed a punch like the kick of a mule & Detective Sergeants Matt Brinnand & John Gosling who topped the Flying Squad war-time arrests set about their task using informants undercover officers & their own unsurpassed ability. In under four years they arrested 789 criminals solved 1 506 cases & recovered stolen property valued at GBP250 000
- or GBP10 million by todays standards. The Ghost Squad was a one-off. How the four officers accomplished this feat is divulged in this thrilling book using hitherto unseen official documents & conversations from people who were there.


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In Scotlands Empire" T.M Devine tells the compelling story of Scotlands role in forging & expanding the British Empire from the Americas to Australia India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the worlds 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: Scotlands 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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The guide describes 34 mountain walks in Scotlands far-west peninsula
- including Morvern Ardnamurchan & Ardgour
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An introduction about the Womens Land Army in the First & Second World Wars is followed by reminiscences recorded recently by the editor of ten ex-Land Girls. It is co-published by NMS Enterprises Limited
- Publishing & the European Ethnological Research Centre (EERC) an independent unit within Celtic & Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
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