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Enrich your travels with reading! Here's a hand-picked list prepared for your journey in conjunction with the book experts at Longitude.

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Highlanders, A History of the Highland Clans

by Fitzroy MacLean

• HISTORY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 276 PAGES

A marvelous storyteller, Maclean recounts the origins, uprisings and personalities of Highland Scotland from Celtic legends to the bloody defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden Moors in this vivid, beautifully illustrated history. (SCT33, $35.00)

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)

Eyewitness Guide Scotland

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

This compact, illustrated travel guide features color photography, excellent maps and a region-by-region synopsis of Scotland's attractions. (SCT40, $25.00)

Scotland Map M 501

by Michelin Travel Publications

• 2012
• MAP

A clear, colorful road map at a scale of 1:400,000. (SCT12, $11.95)

 

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Lonely Planet Edinburgh Encounter

by Neil Wilson

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 176 PAGES

This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map. (SCT138, $12.99)

Rough Guide Scottish Highlands and Islands

by Rob Humphreys

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 616 PAGES

A comprehensive guide in the hip, literate and very informative Rough Guide style. It's divided cleanly between practical information and illuminating background on culture and history. (SCT132, $19.99)

Walking

by Henry David Thoreau

• REFERENCE
• 1994
• PAPER
• 92 PAGES

Slip this pocket edition of Thoreau's meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel in your daypack for inspiration. (WLK04, $9.99)

Celtic Prayers from Iona

by J. Philip Newell

• RELIGION
• 1997
• HARD COVER
• 96 PAGES

Inspired by the Gaelic prayers and poems of the 19th-century Scotsman Alexander Carmichael, Newell and his wife developed this handsome hard cover book while wardens on the island. (SCT21, $14.95)

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)

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

by Samuel Johnson | James Boswell

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1984
• PAPER
• 429 PAGES

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)

Sea Room, An Island Life in the Hebrides

by Adam Nicolson

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2007
• PAPER
• 391 PAGES

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)

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)

Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster, Traveling Through Scotland With Boswell and Johnson

by William W. Starr

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 240 PAGES

On his 3,000 mile literary pilgrimage, Starr traced the path (in reverse) James Boswell and Samuel Johnson took through Scotland in 1773. He combines biography, history, comic asides and passages from Boswell's and Johnson's accounts with his own observations to create a multifaceted travelogue. (SCT166, $29.95)

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

• LITERATURE
• 1989
• PAPER
• 209 PAGES

Woolf's modernist classic, in which the Ramsay family goes on holiday in the Hebrides, is drawn from memories of childhood trips to Cornwall. (SCT41, $13.95)

Waverly

by Sir Walter Scott

• LITERATURE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 464 PAGES

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)