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  Boatlines

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Mar 2023

  £16.99

  People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be...

• A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023

  £14.99

  Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the...

• The Salt Roads

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023

  £9.99

  Sometimes the simplest thing can change an entire culture. This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from...

• The Sea Kingdoms

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011

  £6.99

  ‘The most powerful representation yet of the race which has repeatedly changed history as we know it’ – The Scotsman Alistair Moffat’s journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and...

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  The Sea Kings

  Paperback | Pub: 20 May 2021

  £30.00

  The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful...

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  When I Heard the Bell

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024

  £12.99

  On 31 December 1918, His Majesty’s Yacht Iolaire sailed from Kyle of Lochalsh for Stornoway, bearing home to the Hebrides nearly 300 naval veterans of the Great War. She never made it. At two in the morning, the ship ran aground by the mouth...