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• A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023

  £14.99

  Written before the Jacobite rebellions irrevocably changed the face of Highland society, Martin Martin’s A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland and A Late Voyage to St Kilda paint a fascinating picture of the Hebrides at a crucial...

• Tales and Travels of a School Inspector

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022

  £9.99

  For nearly forty years John Wilson travelled the length and breadth of Scotland as a school inspector. From orkney to campbeltown and Jura to Dundee, he visited hundreds of schools and met thousands of teachers and pupils. In these memoirs, first...

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  To The Hebrides

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Jul 2011

  £14.99

  Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring...

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  The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom

  Hardback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023

  £40.00

  Around the year 1885, Alfred Barnard was secretary of Harper’s Weekly Gazette, a journal which featured facets of the wine and spirit trade. In order to provide his readers with the history and detailed descriptions of the whisky-making...