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	Fodor's Exploring Scotland  •  Gilbert Summers GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES With its many photographs, great introductory chapters and practical travel information, this compact guide for visitors is an excellent overview of Scotland and its highlights. Most of the book is devoted to a region-by-region description of attractions, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, the highlands and islands. With excellent local maps. (SCT09, $22.00)
	Scotland, A Concise History  •  Fitzroy MacLean  •  Magnus Linklater HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 248 PAGES This classic, illustrated study brings Scottish history up to the present through its romantic figures and bloody battles. With 250 well-chosen and integrated illustrations, it's an excellent visual survey. Revised with an additional chapter by Magnus Linklater. (SCT15, $19.95)
	Scotland's Golf Courses  •  Robert Price GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES A guide to more than 500 golf courses in Scotland -- the birthplace of the sport and still a favorite destination for dedicated duffers. (SCT72, $25.00)
	Scotland Map  •   Michelin Travel Publications MAP A clear, colorful map of Scotland at a scale of 1:400,000, with shaded relief showing topographical features. (SCT12, $8.95)

	Crofter and the Laird  •  John McPhee   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE  •  McPhee packs up his family and returns to his ancestral land on the Isle of Colonsay for a year in this lyrical, appreciative portrait of place and traditional ways of life in the Hebrides. (SCT23, $15.00)
	Curious Scotland, Tales From a Hidden History  •  George Rosie   • HISTORY  •  A journalist, playwright and raconteur, Rosie recounts favorite Scottish stories in this entertaining and unconventional history. (SCT116, $23.95)
	How the Scots Invented the Modern World  •  Arthur Herman   • HISTORY  •  The emigration of Scottish peoples and ideas is the subject of this bestselling history. Herman argues (convincingly) that many of the greatest political, intellectual and technological innovations of the 18th and 19th centuries came from the Scots. (SCT65, $14.95)
	Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland  •  Neal Ascherson   • HISTORY  •  Ascherson writes with verve and insight on the centuries-old impulse toward nationhood in Scotland in this absorbing portrait, interweaving history with archaeology, myth and his own interviews and travels. (SCT66, $14.00)
	The Most Beautiful Villages of Scotland  •  Hugh Palmer   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Not just drop-dead beautiful, this lavishly illustrated compendium includes suggestions for historic hamlets, market towns, castles and estates. With notes on travel, hotels and restaurants and accommodations. (SCT81, $40.00)
	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides  •  Samuel Johnson  •  James Boswell   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Written when Johnson was 63 and Boswell 32 in 1773 (when they had been friends for ten years), these travel journals were the result of a three-month trip to Scotland. Johnson observed Scotland, and Boswell observed Johnson. (SCT07, $18.00)
	Final Rounds, A Father, a Son, the Golf Journey of a Lifetime  •  James Dodson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The author's trip with his father to the great courses of Scotland and England. (GOL02, $16.00)
	The People of the Sea  •  David Thomson  •  Seamus Heaney   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A classic, originally published in 1954. Thomson sets out in search of Celtic legends among the people of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides and Western Ireland in this marvelous collection of tales, observations and encounters. (SCT68, $16.00)
	William Wallace, Brave Heart  •  James MacKay   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  MacKay separates myth from legend in this rich account of one of Scotland's greatest heroes. He delves into medieval Scotland, setting the life of William Wallace in its historical context. (SCT30, $16.99)
	44 Scotland Street  •  Alexander McCall Smith   • LITERATURE  •  In this witty novel, McCall Smith traces the lives and eccentricities of the men and women living in an Edinburgh boarding house. (SCT83, $13.95)
	Waverly  •  Sir Walter Scott   • LITERATURE  •  Scott drew on childhood tales for this richly detailed portrait of the Highland and Lowland Scots, culminating with the the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charles at the 1746 Battle of Culloden. (SCT119, $12.95)
	Bernard Darwin on Golf  •  Jeff Silverman  •  Bernard Darwin   • SPORT  •  A collection of essays by the renowned golf writer. (GOL06, $16.95)
	The Book of Golfers, A Biographical History of the Royal & Ancient Game  •  Danile Wexler   • SPORT  •  An overview by a leading golf historian. (GOL07, $34.95)

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