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These 4 items are available for $65, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSCT69)

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, $14.00)
Northern Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Map  •  Ordnance Survey MAP A detailed, full-color road map of northern Scotland, including inset maps of Orkney and Shetland, at a scale 1:250,000. With an index, distance chart and very good topographic detail. It covers all the highlands from Fort William, the Cairngorms and Strathmore north. (SCT35, $12.95)

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)
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)
Portrait of Scotland  •  Colin Baxter   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An excellent short introduction to the beauty and mystery of the Scottish highlands and islands, featuring stunning color photographs by Colin Baxter. (SCT87, $16.95)
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)
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages  •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages featuring hundreds of drawings and color illustrations and a brief chronology. (MED07, $12.95)
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)
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)
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, $16.00)
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)
Kidnapped  •  Robert Louis Stevenson   • LITERATURE  •  Set in 18th-century Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, this is a story of attempted murder, shipwreck, and kidnapping as told by a young Whig. (SCT02, $9.00)
Rob Roy  •  Sir Walter Scott   • LITERATURE  •  Adventure in the highlands of 18th-century Scotland starring the dashing outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. Part of the "Penguin Classics" series, this book contains explanatory notes and an introduction that sets it in its historical context. (SCT20, $11.00)
British Isles, Wildlife of Coastal Waters  •  Tony Soper  •  Dan Powell   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, informative and well-illstrated guide to the birds, whales and other creatures of the islands and inshore waters of the British Isles. (GBR371, $19.95)