Norra Skottland, högländerna & öarna

Midges like damp areas, low sunlight, no wind and dark clothes (to land on, not to wear). So your best bet for a midge-free, summer Highland holiday is to don a white robe and take …

Seeking a temporary escape from the city and a world gone mad, Alan Brown plots out a personal challenge: an epic coast-to-coast trip through the lonely interior of the Highlands. …

A guidebook to 40 walks on the Scottish islands of Berneray, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, Eriskay, Barra, Vatersay and Mingulay in the Outer Hebrides. From short easy walks …

‘Had me hooked from the start and I got so involved with the characters I couldn’t stop reading’ Vicki Beeby Scotland, 1943. It’s a long hot summer in …

The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the …

The remote archipelago which lies off the north-west coast of Scotland boasts a huge range of contrasting and spectacular land- and seascapes. Lewis is austere, with a featureless …

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND'An astonishing tour de force' …

This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834), and a modern travelogue that revisits the places in the …

This book is the first major sociophonetic work on the urban accent of Aberdeen in North-East Scotland. The study shows how the accent has changed following the large-scale …

The Scottish Highlands have a strong appeal to the public imagination. Indeed, as a result of the writings of Sir Walter Scott, they are now symbolic of Scotland as a whole: a land …