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Synopsis Part of a series of guides following key figures and themes, this book looks at the life and work of John Muir, who made the US go green...

Synopsis The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England. The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist bet...

Synopsis Edited by Michael Grieve & Alexander Scott. Many literary critics agree that, with William Dunbar and Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid ...

Synopsis Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides is a thought-provoking commentary based on broadcaster Lesley Riddoch's cycle journey through a beautiful ...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Study in Land Ownership. This book from the 70's was the first of the land reform movement looking at landlords and estates,...

Synopsis Studying Scots Law provides a highly readable account of the educational and training requirements for entry into the Scottish legal profe...

Synopsis In the 18th Century shotgun weddings were not unusual, but in most cases it wasn't the bride that was holding the gun. So began the stor...

Synopsis Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelv...

Synopsis Subtitled : Owling With Laughter. A bumper collection of the decade's funniest stories, as published every day in The Herald's 'Diary' c...

Synopsis Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - ...

Synopsis "These are the ideas we research and campaign for. These are the ideas we stand for. These are the ideas that will transform Scotland an...

Synopsis These journals cover the period from 1848 to 1882 provide a fascinating insight into the days she spent with her family in her much belo...

Synopsis Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real ...

Synopsis In the twenty first century, organised religion would seem to have lost its grip on humanity, and yet people seek spiritual guidance as ...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize 2009. Subtitled : A Life in Mountain Rescue. In Cairngorm John (his call sign when in contact ...

Synopsis For two and half thousand years the ancient Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. The archetypal `b...

Synopsis An armed uprising. A conspiracy. An assassination. A hanging. These events, starting with the crushing of Jacobite rebels at Culloden in 1...

Synopsis On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had set off from Pa...

Synopsis Updated Edition. Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament mad...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Life on Soay. When Anne Cholowo arrived on the remote west coast island there were only 17 inhabitants. Today there are only...