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These 5 items are available for $75, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSCT68)

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)
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, $15.00)
Scotland Map  •  Michelin Travel Publications MAP A clear, colorful map of Scotland at a scale of 1:400,000, with shaded relief showing topographical features. (SCT12, $8.95)

AAA Spiral Guide Scotland  •  Hugh Taylor   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A lively, handy guide to the highlights of Scotland, with a convenient easy-read binding, color photos and maps. Also includes insightful articles and on the history and culture of the country. (SCT126, $16.95)
Fodor's Edinburgh's 25 Best  •  Hilary Weston   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy pocket guide and map. (SCT131, $11.95)
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)
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 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 Celts, Conquerors of Ancient Europe  •  Chriatiane Eluere   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  A colorful pocket-size encyclopedia documenting the art and archaeology of the Celts. With 100 maps and illustrations. (CLT01, $12.95)
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, $23.95)
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, $14.95)
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, $16.95)
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, $13.95)
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, $12.95)
Waverly  •  Sir Walter Scott   • LITERATURE  •  Scott drew on childhood tales for this richly detailed portrait of the Highland and Lowland Scots, culminating with the the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charles at the 1746 Battle of Culloden. (SCT119, $12.95)
Birds of Europe  •  Killian Mullarney  •  Lars Svensson  •  Dan Zetterstrom  •  Peter J. Grant   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent. (FG47, $29.95)
British Isles, Wildlife of Coastal Waters  •  Tony Soper  •  Dan Powell   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, informative and well-illustrated guide to the birds, whales and other creatures of the islands and inshore waters of the British Isles. (GBR371, $19.95)