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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)
	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)
	The Crofter and the Laird  •  John McPhee CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1978 •  PAPER  • 159 PAGES • FAVORITE In this volume, McPhee returns to his ancestral land, the island of Colonsay in the Scottish Hebrides, to tell the stories of people whose lives are deeply entrenched in their land. With his characteristic grace and admiration for his subjects, McPhee writes about this stark region where residents still live under an almost feudal system of farmers, crofter and lord. (SCT23, $16.00)
	Scotland Map M 501  •   Michelin Travel Publications 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)

	Culture Smart! Scotland  •  John Scotney   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture, equally of interest to the traveler and business person. (SCT160, $9.95)
	Fodor's Edinburgh's 25 Best  •  Hilary Weston   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handy pocket guide and map contains essential in-formation on Edinburgh's highlights, ideal for a short visit to the city. (SCT131, $11.99)
	Knopf Mapguide Edinburgh  •   Knopf Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy set of full color, ingeniously folded maps, each indicating favorite sites, shops, restaurants and attractions. (SCT105, $9.95)
	Rough Guide Scotland  •   Rough Guide   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide focusing on where to go and what to do from Dumphries and Edinburgh to Stornoway, Kirkwall and Lerwick. (SCT60, $23.99)
	Highlanders, A History of the Highland Clans  •  Fitzroy MacLean   • HISTORY  •  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)
	Scotland, The Story of a Nation  •  Magnus Magnusson   • HISTORY  •  A vivid survey of the history of Scotland, rich in personality and incident, by a master storyteller. (SCT54, $22.50)
	The Highland Clans  •  Alistair Moffat   • HISTORY  •  This excellent, compact history of the Scottish Highland clans brings to life their leaders, traditions, families and heroic deeds with color illustrations, photos, a clan map and an alphabetical family list. (SCT164, $22.95)
	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, restaurants and accommodations. (SCT81, $40.00)
	The Steel Bonnets, The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • HISTORY  •  George MacDonald Fraser's masterful history of the 16th-century borderland between England and Scotland, captures all the celebrated mayhem, blood and glory of the time in rich and entertaining detail. (SCT04, $14.95)
	Guynd, A Scottish Journal  •  Belinda Rathbone   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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, $14.95)
	Queen of Scots, The True Life of Mary Stuart  •  John Guy   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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)
	Sea Room, An Island Life in the Hebrides  •  Adam Nicolson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nicolson explores the nature, history and magic of three remote islands in the Outer Hebrides in this affecting memoir. Tiny islands surrounded by serious tides, the Shiants nonetheless make their mark with 500-foot basalt cliffs, seabird and seal colonies, and a long history. (GBR369, $14.95)
	Seasons on Harris, A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides  •  David Yeadon   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Yeardon writes with lively sympathy of the island and its people (and even the lousy weather) in this appreciative account of the culture, traditions and beauty of the island. (SCT133, $15.99)
	The People of the Sea  •  David Thomson  •  Seamus Heaney   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Fascinated by the Celtic seal tales of his youth, Thomson sets out for Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides and Western Ireland. His search yields this marvelously unclassifiable collection of stories, observations and traditional tales. (SCT68, $16.95)
	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, $15.00)
	Celtic Prayers and Incantations  •  Alexander Carmichael   • LITERATURE  •  An authoritative edition of poems and blessings as collected by folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832 - 1912) over 40 years, when Gaelic was still widely spoken in the Skye, Uist, Oban and other islands of the Hebrides. (CLT4, $7.95)
	Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney  •  Hermann Palssom  •  Paul Edwards   • LITERATURE  •  A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the ninth century. (VIK07, $15.00)
	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie  •  Muriel Spark   • LITERATURE  •  A slender, 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, $12.99)
	The Reavers  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  After twelve gloriously scandalous Flashman novels, the incomparable George MacDonald Fraser gives us a totally hilarious tale of derring-do from the turn of the 17th century (sort of) in the wild Borderlands of Scotland. (GBR755, $14.95)
	Waverly  •  Sir Walter Scott   • LITERATURE  •  Scott drew on childhood tales for this richly detailed portrait of the Highland and Lowland Scots, culminating with the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charles at the 1746 Battle of Culloden. (SCT119, $12.95)
	Birds of Europe  •  Lars Svensson  •  Dan Zetterstrom  •  Killian Mullarney   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, this second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps. (FG47, $29.95)
	Wildlife of the North Atlantic, A Cruising Guide  •  Tony Soper  •  Dan Powell   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This compact, illustrated guide covers the many petrels, ducks, gulls, terns and other seabirds along with whales and dolphins of not just the British Isles but all the way across the Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland. (ATL26, $25.99)

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