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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $92, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSCT90)		  
The Crofter and the Laird  •  John McPhee
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1978 •  PAPER  • 159 PAGES • FAVORITE
In this volume, McPhee returns for a year 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)		   The Crofter and the Laird
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)		   Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland
Scotland, A Concise History  •  Fitzroy MacLean  •  Magnus Linklater
HISTORY •  2012 •  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)		   Scotland, A Concise History
Scotland Map M 501  •  Michelin Travel Publications
2012 •  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, $11.95)		   Scotland Map M 501
Eyewitness Guide Scotland  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES
A compact illustrated travel guide featuring bright color photography, dozens of excellent maps, and a region-by-region synopsis of Scotland's attractions. With a 50-page section on where to stay and eat. (SCT40, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Scotland



Also Recommended

Edinburgh Map  •  Streetwise    •  A laminated, folded map of Edinburgh. (SCT52, $7.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Frommer's Day by Day Edinburgh  •  Barry Shelby   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit. (SCT136, $14.99)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Scotland  •  Andrew Fisher   • HISTORY  •  This brief history of Scotland through the 1990s is wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology, a list of monarchs and a historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries. (GBR40, $14.95)
 		  
Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens, A Golfer's Pilgrimage to the Courses of Scotland  •  James W. Finegan   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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)
 		  
Celtic Prayers from Iona  •  J. Philip Newell   • RELIGION  •  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)
 		  
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 Charlie at Culloden Moors in this vivid, beautifully illustrated history. (SCT33, $35.00)
 		  
How the Scots Invented the Modern World  •  Arthur Herman   • HISTORY  •  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)
 		  
The Celts: A Very Short Introduction  •  Barry W Cunliffe   • HISTORY  •  A concise, revealing social history of the Celts, by a reigning authority and popular writer. (CLT03, $11.95)
 		  
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, $15.95)
 		  
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 Shetland Bus, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure  •  David Howarth   • HISTORY  •  The little-known story of a fleet of fishing boats that regularly journeyed across treacherous waters from the Shetland Islands to Norway, to bring relief and fortifications to Norwegians under Nazi attack. (NOR26, $16.95)
 		  
The Steel Bonnets  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • HISTORY  •  MacDonald Fraser captures the celebrated mayhem, blood and glory of the Anglo-Scottish border raids in rich and entertaining detail. (SCT04, $14.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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, $16.00)
 		  
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie  •  Muriel Spark   • LITERATURE  •  A terribly witty novel from the pen of 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)
 		  
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   • FIELD GUIDE • 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  •  Tony Soper  •  Dan Powell   • FIELD GUIDE  •  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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