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  Between Earth and Paradise

  Paperback | Pub: 06 May 2021

  £9.99

  After giving up a hectic life as a journalist in Europe and Hollywood in the late 1960s to return to his boyhood love of nature, Mike Tomkies moved to Eilean Shona, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. There he rebuilt an abandoned croft...

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  The Fresh and the Salt

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Sep 2020

  £25.00 £20.00

  Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly influenced by their waters and shores. The Solway...

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  Into the Peatlands

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Sep 2018

  £12.99 £10.39

  The peatlands of the Outer Hebrides are half land, half water. Their surface is a glorious tweed woven from tiny, living sphagnums rich in wildlife, but underneath is layer upon layer of dead mosses transforming into the peat. One can, with care,...

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  A Last Wild Place

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2021

  £12.99

  When Mike Tomkies moved to a remote cottage on the shores of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland, he found a place which was to provide him with the most profound wilderness experience of his life. Accessible only by boat, the cottage he...

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  The Last Wolf

  Paperback | Pub: 26 Jul 2010

  £9.99 £7.99

  In 1743, according to legend, the last wolf in Scotland was killed by a huntsman near Inverness. At the time the extinction of wolves in Scotland was celebrated. But since then deer have multiplied in the Highlands, destroying the vegetation on...

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  Regeneration

  Hardback | Pub: 04 Mar 2021

  £20.00

  In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring burns and frozen lochs could be a...

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  Scottish Plant Lore

  Hardback | Pub: 21 May 2020

  £20.00 £16.00

  Scotland’s plants define its landscape – from the heather moorlands of its iconic habitats to the weeds and a garden plants of its towns and cities. Plants have shaped the country’s domestic economy and culture over centuries, providing...