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Fodor's Exploring Scotland

Fodor's Exploring Scotland

by Gilbert Summers

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

With its many photographs, detailed descriptions and practical information, this compact guide covers Scotland in style. (SCT09, $22.00)

Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens, A Golfer's Pilgrimage to the Courses of Scotland

by James W. Finegan

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Finegan, the former golf columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer, takes us on a delightful tour of the great links of Scotland, combining personal anecdote, a history of the game and a character study of the Scots. (SCT08, $21.00)

Coasting, A Private Journey

Coasting, A Private Journey

by Jonathan Raban

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 302 PAGES

Raban's eloquent, anecdotal account of a solo circumnavigation of the British Isles in a 30-foot ketch, his first experience in a boat. It's an engaging account of the experience of the sea, and the people and places he encounters. (GBR591, $13.00)

Great Britain and Ireland Map

Great Britain and Ireland Map

by HEMA Maps

  • MAP

A nicely detailed map showing both Great Britain and Ireland at a scale of 1:750,000. (GBR31, $10.95)

 

Bernard Darwin on Golf


by Jeff Silverman | Bernard Darwin

  • SPORT
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

A collection of essays by the renowned golf writer. (GOL06, $16.95)

Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas, A Golfer's Pilgrimage to the Courses of Ireland

Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas, A Golfer's Pilgrimage to the Courses of Ireland


by James W. Finegan

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1996
  • HARD COVER
  • 192 PAGES

In this wonderful companion to Finegan's book on Scotland, Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens, the author returns to his native Ireland to explore both golf and the Irish people. (IRE25, $52.00)

Golf by Design, How To Lower Your Score By Reading The Features Of A Course


by Robert Trent Jones

  • SPORT
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 292 PAGES

This nicely illustrated guide to the world's greatest courses provides golfers with insight into nearly every aspect of a course designer's strategic considerations. (GOL23, $21.95)

Golf in the Kingdom


by Michael Murphy

  • SPORT
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 223 PAGES

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of a classic work on the deeper mysteries of golf, revealed during a round with philosopher/golfer Shivas Irons. (GOL20, $15.00)

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

How the Scots Invented the Modern World


by Arthur Herman

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 472 PAGES

Herman argues convincingly in this bestseller that many of the greatest political, intellectual and technological innovations of the 18th and 19th centuries came from the Scots. (SCT65, $16.00)

Ireland, A Concise History

Ireland, A Concise History


by Maire O'Brien | Conor Cruise O'Brien

  • HISTORY
  • 1985
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

With its lively, even-handed tone and hundreds of photographs, this grand history by scholar and statesman O'Brien conveys the essence of the Irish experience. (IRE20, $19.95)

Links Golf, The Inside Story


by Paul Daley

  • SPORT
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 160 PAGES

Focusing on the links of Great Britain and Ireland, Daley provides a clear view of such aspects of golf course construction as bunkering, burns, and blind shots and a discussion of the styles and the large number of links courses. (GOL22, $35.00)

Scotland's Gift, How America Discovered Golf


by Charles Blair Macdonald

  • SPORT
  • 2003
  • HARD COVER
  • 320 PAGES

Originally published in 1928, this history of the introduction of golf to the United States illuminates the way the Scots originally played the game and how it has changed in the new locale. (GOL21, $26.95)

Scotland, A Concise History

Scotland, A Concise History


by Fitzroy MacLean | Magnus Linklater

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 248 PAGES

With 250 well-integrated illustrations, this lively and authoritative history covers the romantic figures and bloody battles from the early clans up to the present. (SCT15, $19.95)

Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland

Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland


by Neal Ascherson

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

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, $27.00)

The British Isles, A History of Four Nations

The British Isles, A History of Four Nations


by Hugh Kearney

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 324 PAGES

The Celts, Romans, Vikings, Normans and modern immigrants all make an appearance in Kearney's elegant and revisionist history of not just the English but also of the Scots, Welsh and Irish. (GBR88, $39.99)

The Most Beautiful Villages of Scotland

The Most Beautiful Villages of Scotland


by Hugh Palmer

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 208 PAGES

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 Spirit of St. Andrews

The Spirit of St. Andrews


by Alister MacKenzie | Robert Tyre Jones

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

A discussion of the history, equipment and architecture of golf by the celebrated golf course designer. (GEN80, $19.00)

The Truth about the Irish

The Truth about the Irish


by Terry Eagleton

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 181 PAGES

An irreverent A-to-Z guide to all things Irish by a native son and shrewd comic commentator, who casts aside many myths, starting with the first entry - A for alcohol (the Irish have the lowest per capita consumption of alcohol in the E.U., after Greece and Italy). (IRE167, $14.95)

Kingdom by the Sea

Kingdom by the Sea


by Paul Theroux

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 361 PAGES

This time, the prolific writer recounts a coastal journey around the British Isles in 1982, displaying his occasional ill temper alongside his celebrated ability to combine social history with a good old-fashioned traveler's tale. (GBR09, $14.95)

Silver Linings, Travels Around Northern Ireland

Silver Linings, Travels Around Northern Ireland


by Martin Fletcher

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

An account of travels, as well as the people, politics and traditions of Northern Ireland, infused with the author's humor and insightful reporting. (IRE146, $16.95)

The Crofter and the Laird

The Crofter and the Laird


by John McPhee

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1978
  • PAPER
  • 159 PAGES
  • FAVORITE

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)

The Reader's Companion to Ireland

The Reader's Companion to Ireland


by Alan Ryan

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

A wonderful collection of stories and excerpts from classic and modern authors such as Eric Newby, Jan Morris, Heinrich Boll and Paul Theroux. (IRE41, $23.95)

Birds of Europe

Birds of Europe


by Lars Svensson

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES
  • FAVORITE

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)

Wildlife of the North Atlantic, A Cruising Guide

Wildlife of the North Atlantic, A Cruising Guide


by Tony Soper | Dan Powell

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 176 PAGES

This compact, illustrated guide covers the many petrels, ducks, gulls, terns and other seabirds, as well as the rich abundance of life existing under the waves, that populate the vast Atlantic region from the British Isles to Newfoundland. (ATL26, $25.99)

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