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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781780277592 | ISBN 10: 1780277598
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2021 Â In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781780277318 | ISBN 10: 1780277318
Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair. Filled with wit and wisdom that is ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781780277035 | ISBN 10: 1780277032
When Mike Tomkies moved to a remote cottage on the shores of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland, he found a place which was to provide him with the most profound wilderness experience of his life. Accessible only by boat, the cottage he ren ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786899811 | ISBN 10: 1786899817
Bringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography. ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912235728 | ISBN 10: 1912235722
In the abiding light of summer, the nature in Jim Crumley's heartlands of Scotland is burgeoning freely. Seals sing, brown hares bound, dragonflies dance. His silent vigils reveal not only an enchanting account of summer's exuberant profusion, but th ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783964956 | ISBN 10: 1783964952
Shortlisted for Travel Memoir Book of the Year, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 / Winner – GOLD in Personality of the Year, SILVER in The Extra Mile Award as well as SILVER in Book of the Year all in The Great Outdoor Awards 2019 ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910463857 | ISBN 10: 191046385x
As the summer draws to a close, a few snowbeds - some as big as icebergs - survive in the Scottish Highlands. Christopher Nicholson's Among the Summer Snows is both a celebration of these great, icy relics and an intensely personal meditation on thei ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784978396 | ISBN 10: 1784978396
This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intoler ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782114178 | ISBN 10: 1782114173
For more than three decades, John Lister-Kaye has been enraptured by the spectacular seasonal metamorphosis at Aigas, the world-renowned Highlands field centre. Over the years, the glen's wildlife has come to infiltrate his soul, whether it is a warb ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780956308665 | ISBN 10: 095630866x
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered, what is it that we're just not seeing? Â Five years after Findings broke the mould of nature writing, Kathleen Jamie subtly shifts our focus on landscape and the living world, daring u ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857861832 | ISBN 10: 0857861832
In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poe ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847674050 | ISBN 10: 1847674054
For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter – a fragile spider's web, an osprey struggling to ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781841588476 | ISBN 10: 1841588474
In The Last Wolf, Jim Crumley explores the place of the wolf in Scotland – past, present and future – and challenges many of the myths that have been regarded for centuries as biological fact. Bringing to bear a lifetime’s immersion in his native lan ... more
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