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Edinburgh & the Scottish Highlands
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/UD11918. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 4 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXSCT61) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland
• Neal Ascherson
HISTORY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
Ascherson writes with verve and insight on the centuries-old impulse toward nationhood in Scotland, interweaving some highly symbolic moments in history with archaeology, myth and his own interviews and travels. A native Scot (that should come as no surprise), Ascherson offers a lucid, absorbing and affectionate portrait of a nation in the making.
(SCT66, $27.00) |
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Scotland Map M 501
• Michelin Travel Publications
2003 •
MAP
A clear, colorful map of Scotland at a scale of 1:400,000, with shaded relief showing topographical features. One Side. 62x40 inches.
(SCT12, $8.95) |
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Also Recommended
Highlanders, A History of the Highland Clans
• Fitzroy MacLean
• HISTORY
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A marvelous storyteller, Maclean recounts the origins, uprisings and personalities of Highland Scotland from Celtic legends to the bloody defeat of Bonnie Prince Charles at Culloden Moors in this vivid, beautifully illustrated history.
(SCT33, $35.00)
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Scotland, The Story of a Nation
• Magnus Magnusson
• HISTORY
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A vivid survey of the history of Scotland, rich in personality and incident, by a master storyteller.
(SCT54, $22.50)
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Scotland
• Hugh Palmer
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Not just drop-dead beautiful, this lavishly illustrated compendium includes suggestions for historic hamlets, market towns, castles and estates. With notes on travel, hotels, restaurants and accommodations.
(SCT81, $40.00)
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The Celts, First Masters of Europe
• Chriatiane Eluere
• ARCHAEOLOGY
• COMING IN
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A colorful pocket-size encyclopedia documenting the art and archaeology of the Celts. With 100 maps and illustrations.
(CLT01, $15.95)
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Guynd, A Scottish Journal
• Belinda Rathbone
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The charming memoir of a woman's sometimes trying relationship with her husband's ancestral home - a sprawling fixer-upper of a Scottish mansion. Through Rathbone's evocative descriptions, the house takes on a life and personality all its own.
(SCT122, $23.95)
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Queen of Scots, The True Life of Mary Stuart
• John Guy
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This major revisionist biography of the much-maligned monarch by British historian and Cambridge fellow John Guy won the 2004 Whitbread Award.
(SCT82, $16.95)
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The Crofter and the Laird
• John McPhee
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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McPhee packs up his family and returns for a year to his ancestral land on the Isle of Colonsay in this lyrical, appreciative portrait of place and traditional ways of life in the Hebrides.
(SCT23, $16.00)
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44 Scotland Street
• Alexander McCall Smith
• LITERATURE
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In this witty novel, McCall Smith traces the lives and eccentricities of the men and women living in an Edinburgh boarding house.
(SCT83, $15.00)
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Muriel Spark
• LITERATURE
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A terribly witty novel from the incomparable Dame Muriel. Miss Jean Brodie is an unorthodox teacher at an Edinburgh girls' boarding school who wins the hearts and minds of her students, only to discover that girls from the provinces are ill-prepared for progressive thought.
(SCT42, $13.99)
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Waverly
• Sir Walter Scott
• LITERATURE
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Scott drew on childhood tales for this richly detailed portrait of the Highland and Lowland Scots, culminating with the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charles at the 1746 Battle of Culloden.
(SCT119, $12.95)
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Birds of Europe
• Lars Svensson
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps.
(FG47, $29.95)
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