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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $87, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSCT68)		  
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 •  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)		   Scotland, A Concise History
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)		   Fodor's Exploring Scotland
Scotland Map M 501  •  Michelin Travel Publications
2003 •  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, $8.95)		   Scotland Map M 501



Also Recommended

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)
 		  
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)
 		  
Rough Guide Scotland  •  Rough Guide   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide focusing on where to go and what to do from Dumphries and Edinburgh to Stornoway, Kirkwall and Lerwick. (SCT60, $23.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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 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, $22.95)
 		  
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 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)
 		  
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, $15.99)
 		  
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, $15.00)
 		  
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, $16.00)
 		  
Poor Things  •  Alasdair Gray   • LITERATURE  •  Set in 19th-century Edinburgh, Gray's satirical novel-within-a-novel chronicles a mad scientist's attempt to create the perfect companion. The oversize paperback includes the author's wonderfully strange illustrations. (SCT173, $14.95)
 		  
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie  •  Muriel Spark   • LITERATURE  •  A 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, $13.99)
 		  
The Reavers  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  After twelve gloriously scandalous Flashman novels, the incomparable George MacDonald Fraser gives us a hilarious tale of derring-do from the turn of the 17th century (sort of) in the wild Borderlands of Scotland. (GBR755, $14.95)
 		  
Waverly  •  Sir Walter Scott   • LITERATURE  •  Scott drew on childhood tales for this richly detailed portrait of the Highland and Lowland Scots, culminating with the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charles at the 1746 Battle of Culloden. (SCT119, $12.95)
 		  
Scotland  •  Peter Friend   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN MARCH  •  Volume 119 in the New Naturalist Series, this well illustrated natural history focuses on the formation of Scotland's dramatic landscapes. (SCT179, $45.00)
 		  
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 along with whales and dolphins of not just the British Isles but all the way across the Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland. (ATL26, $25.99)
 		  
 
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