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Arran: 40 Favourite Walks
£6.99
PaperbackWith dramatic mountain ridges towering over the moorland of its northern half, and a lusher, softer landscape in the south, Arran is often dubbed as Scotland in miniature. This book features 40 of the author's favourite walks around the island.
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Billy Connolly's Route 66: The Big Yin On The Ultimate American Road Trip
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£6.79
PaperbackA classic combination of travel, humour, music, and modern American history, this book follows Billy Connolly as he takes the ultimate road trip - along Route 66.
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Cycling In The Hebrides: Island Touring And Day Rides
£11.21
PaperbackThis guide has 35 cycling day rides for all abilities and 20 linking routes for veteran cycle tourists, set throughout the Scottish islands of the Hebrides and the Firth of Clyde.
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Das Schottlandbuch: Oder Eine Passionierte Schilderung Schottischer Geschichte, Kultur Und Natur
£12.74
PaperbackAfter a decade of living & working in Edinburgh, Hans-Walter Arends provides a comprehensive resource for German-speaking visitors to Scotland. By using his personal viewpoint & sharing the knowledge of the true insider, as well as more conventional guidebook contents, this work tells the reader all that is worth knowing about Scotland.
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Highland Homespun
£7.64
PaperbackIn May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the Isle of Skye. In this book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the burning of the land and ploughing in March, through planting and sowing in April to haymaking and harvesting in September.
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Isles Of The West
£8.49
PaperbackThis book looks at the major issues peculiar to the Western Isles - issues of landownership and power, of tourism and development, of incomers and natives, of language and identity, and of failed attempts to modernise the islands.
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Mull & Iona: Highways & Byways
£5.09
PaperbackPeter Macnab takes the visitor on a tour of these two accessible islands of the Inner Hebrides, considered to be the centre of Celtic Christianity. Born and brought up on Mull, the author has an insider's knowledge of the island and throughout this book he shows the reader the true Mull and Iona.
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Roads With A View: Scotland's Greatest Views And How To Find Them By Road
£16.99
PaperbackWith specifically drawn maps, beautiful colour photography from some of the UK's finest landscape photographers, and plenty of travel advice on where to eat, where to stay, and what to do, this unique guide lifts the lid on parts of Scotland that are often overlooked.
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Sea Change: The Summer Voyage From East To West Scotland Of The Anassa
£12.74
PaperbackThis text covers Mairi Hedderwick's voyage, fraught with danger and difficulty, as she visited Loch Linnhe, the Lynn of Lorne, Loch Etive, Lochs Ailort and Moidart, Loch Nevis, Loch na Droma Buidhe and Loch a'Choire in a small, antiquated sailing boat.
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Travels In Scotland, 1788-1881: A Selection From Contemporary Tourism Journals
£25.00
HardbackThese journals from early 'tourists' in Scotland provide a vivid record of the joys (and otherwise) of travel.
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