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Luath Press, 50 Classic Routes on Scottish Mountains
With its companion volumes 50 Best Routes, 50 More Routes and 50 Best Routes on Skye and Raasay, 50 Classic Routes completes a series of guidebooks that has become the standard reference work to the best of Scottish hillwalking. This latest volume again ranges across the Highlands to provide a well-chosen cross-section of routes, carefully researched to eliminate the boring trudge and accentuate the entertaining. Newcomers will find more than enough to keep them happy, while the experienced Scottish hillwalker will be encouraged to look again.
Here are fifty circular routes in the Scottish Highlands, all including a peak over 600m/2,000ft and all accessible by road; from gentle strolls to challenging scrambles, selected by a respected walker, climber and writer; complete with at-a-glance ratings for terrain, adverse conditions and technical difficulty, and supported by maps and photographs.
Price: £6.99
Luath Press, Of Big Hills and Wee Men
Peter Kemp brings Scotland's outdoors to life.
The big hills of Scotland are conquered by the wee men of Glasgow.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, The Luath Burns Companion
This collection is not another 'complete works' but a personal selection from 'The Man Who Played Robert Burns'. This is very much John's book. His favourites are reproduced here and he talks about them with an obvious love of the man and his work. His depth of knowledge and understanding has been garnered over forty years of study, writing and performance.
The collection includes sixty poems, songs and other works; and an essay that explores Burns' life and influences, his triumphs and tragedies. This informed introduction provides the reader with an insight into Burns's world.
Price: £8.99
Luath Press, Easdale, the Islands that Roofed the World
Over the 200 year old bridge which crosses the Atlantic to the charming, yet scarred, Inner Hebridean Slate Islands.
The Slate Islands lie off the west coast of Argyll. Slate has been taken from their shores from earliest recorded history and the richness and quality of the deposits meant that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries slate quarrying was one of the most important industries in Scotland.
Price: £4.99
Luath Press, The East Highland Way
The East Highland Way is a detailed and descriptive guide to the route developed by Kevin Langan in 2007. Beginning in Fort William and culminating in Aviemore, the trail forms a new link route between the northern end of the West Highland Way and the southern end of the Speyside Way. In addition, the route joins with the Great Glen Way at its southern point in Fort William, making this an exciting new challenge for seasoned walkers and amateurs alike.
Not only an illustrated route description, Langan also details the plethora of wildlife to be spotted along the way in each section of the walk. The book also provides information on the various historical attractions with which the route intersects, including Old Inverlochy Castle and Kingussie’s Ruthven Barracks. Langan’s route has been optimised to engage with accommodation where possible, and these accommodation options are included in the guide.
Price: £9.99
Luath Press, Easy Walks in Monarch of the Glen Country
Based on its predecessor Short Walks in the Cairngorms, this book is a clear and comprehensive guide to a selection of easygoing, yet senic, walks in the areas made popular by the BBC series Monarch of the Glen.
Price: £4.99
Luath Press, A Herd of Red Deer
This authoritative work on the lives and habits of the red deer, supported by Scottish Natural Heritage, describes in beautiful detail all Darling learnt over the two year period he spent with the red deer. From the excitement of the rutting season to the struggle for mastery of the herd, Darling is able to express the changes in the deer community throughout the year with a warmth and personality that few scientists have.
Price: £9.99
Luath Press, Hill Walks in the Cairngorms
Readers are effectively and reliably informed on all relevant issues, including the opening of the Cairngorm funicular and restricted access to the mountains, to ensure their plans are not impeded. A vast, varied and comprehensive range of different routes means walkers will be drawn back to Hill Walks in the Cairngorms time after time, as they discover the beauty of this part of Scotland for themselves
Price: £4.99
Luath Press, John Barrington, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
John Barrington's follow up to the bestselling Red Sky at Night. Here, Barrington draws upon his wealth of knowledge and experience of life in Loch Lomond and surrounding Trossachs area to create a compelling historical, mythological and linguistic A to Z of the region.
Price: £8.99
Luath Press, John Barrington, Out of The Mists
This delightful collection with tales of roaming giants, marauding monks and weird witches will leave you awestruck. Enter into this mystical world of wonder and whimsy and be enthralled by all the magic, madness and mayhem in store!
With wit and humour, award-winning author John Barrington intersperses history and legend, tradition and fable to create a compelling and entertaining collection of stories which will answer all your questions about Scottish folklore.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, John Barrington, Red Sky at Night
This fascinating insight into a shepherd's life took Red Sky at Night to the top of the UK bestsellers charts on first publication. Now with this new Luath edition a new generation of readers can discover the rhythms of the seasons, spend the night on the hill and learn the mysteries of how shepherds communicate with their dogs. From the reviews the book has received, it might be that the old chant, red sky at night, shepherd's delight, could be reworked: Red Sky at Night, reader's delight!
Price: £8.99
Luath Press, The Joy of Hillwalking
Ralph Storer's highly entertaining exploration of the lure of the hills is underpinned by hard-won experience - he has climbed extensively in the British Isles, Europe and the American West, though his abiding love is the Scottish Highlands. His breezing anecdotes of walking and climbing around the world in all sorts of conditions are gripping and full of fun.
This man has done more things in a sleeping bag than sleep, and in the Joy of Hillwalking he cheerfully tells all. His sense of humour is as irrepressible as his relish for adventurous ascents, but he doesn't have his head in the clouds when it comes to serious issues such as public access and conservation.
Price: £7.50
Luath Press, Mountain Days and Bothy Nights
Acknowledged as a classic of mountain writing and still in demand ten years after its first publication, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills. Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan, Stumpy and the Big Yin stalk hill and public house, evading gamekeepers and royalty with a camaraderie which was the trademark of Scots hillwalking in the early days.
Price: £7.50
Luath Press, Mull and Iona
Peter Macnab takes the visitor on a tour of these two accessible islands of the Inner Hebrides, considered to be the centre of Celtic Christianity. Born and grown up in Mull the author has an unparalleled knowledge of the island and throughout this book he shows the reader the true Mull and Iona.
Price: £5.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of Bonnie Prince Charlie
On The Trail of Bonnie Prince Charlie is the story of the Young Pretender. Born in Italy, grandson of James VII, at a time when the German house of Hanover was on the throne, his father was regarded by many as the rightful king. Bonnie Prince Charlie's campaign to retake the throne in his father's name changed the fate of Scotland. The Jacobite movement was responsible for the '45 Uprising, one of the most decisive times in Scottish history. The suffering following the battle of Culloden in 1746 still evokes emotion. Charles' own journey immediately after Culloden is well known: hiding in the heather, escaping to Skye with Flora MacDonald. Little is known of his return to London in 1750 incognito, where he converted to Protestantism (he re-converted to Catholicism before he died and is buried in the Vatican). He was often unwelcome in Europe after the failure of the uprising and came to hate any mention of Scotland and his lost chance.
•79 places to visit in Scotland and England
•One general map and 4 location maps
•Prestonpans, Clifton, Falkirk and Culloden battle plans
•Simplified family tree
•Rarely seen illustrations
Yet again popular historian David R Ross brings his own style to one of Scotland's most famous figures. Bonnie Prince Charlie is part of the folklore of Scotland. He brings forth feelings of antagonism from some and romanticism from others, but all agree on his legal right to the throne. Knowing the story behind the place can bring the landscape to life. Take this book with you on your travels and follow the route taken by Charles' forces on their doomed march.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of John Muir
Follow the man who made the US go green. Confidante of presidents, father of the American national park system, trailblazer of world conservation and voted a Man of the Millennium, John Muir's life and work is of continuing relevance. He was a man ahead of his time who saw the wilderness he loved threatened by industrialisation, and determined to protect it, a crusade in which he was largely successful. His love of the wilderness began at an early age and he was filled with wanderlust all his life.
Braving mosquitoes and black bears Cherry Good set herself on the trail - Dunbar, Scotland; Fountain Lake and Hickory Hill, Wisconsin; Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Nevada, California; the Grand Canyon, Arizona' Alaska; and Canada - to tell his story. John Muir was himself a prolific writer, and Good draws on his books, articles, letters and diaries to produce an account that is lively, intimate, humorous and anecdotal, and that provides refreshing new insights into the here or world conservation.
Muir's importance has long been acknowledged in the US with around 200 sites of scenic beauty named after him. He was a Founder of The Sierra Club which now has over 1/2million members. Due to the movement he started, some 360 million acres of wilderness are now protected. This is a book which shows John Muir not simply as a hero but as a likeable, humorous and self-effacing man of extraordinary vision.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots
On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots by J Keith Cheetham traces the major events in the turbulent life of the beautiful, enigmatic queen whose romantic reign and tragic destiny exerts an undimmed fascination. Here is the essential guide to over 200 Mary Queen of Scots sites of interest in Scotland, England and France. It is fully illustrated with maps and plans and clearly shows the best tour routes, region by region.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of Queen Victoria
How many Munros did Queen Victoria bag?
What 'essential services' did John Brown perform for Victoria? (and why was Albert always tired?)
How many horses (to the nearest hundred) were needed to undertake a Royal Tour?
What happens when you send a Marxist on the tracks of Queen Victoria in the Highlands? - you get a book somewhat more interesting than the usual run of the mill royalist biographies!
Ian R Mitchell took up the challenge of attempting to write with critical empathy on the peregrinations of Vikki Regina in the Highlands, and about her residence at Balmoral, through which a neo-feudal fairyland was created on Upper Deeside. The expeditions, social rituals and iconography of that world are explored and exploded from within, in what Mitchell terms a Bolshevisation of Balmorality. He follows in Victoria's footsteps throughout the Cairngorms and beyond, to the further reaches of the Highlands. On this journey, a grudging respect and even affection for Vikki ('the best of the bunch') emerges.
The book is designed to enable the armchair/motorised reader, or walker, to follow in the steps of the most widely-travelled royal personage in the Highlands since Bonnie Prince Charlie had wandered there a century earlier.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of the Real Macbeth
As this fascinating new book reveals, contrary to Shakespeare's evil, murderous usurper, the real Macbeth was actually Macbethad mac Findlaech, king of the ancient Scottish kingdom of Alba. Born around 1005, from early childhood Macbeth fought real-life treachery to protect his birthright to the throne and as a teenager was forced to confront the murder of his father at the hands of his cousins. He went on to successfully rule the province of Moray from 1040-1057 against a turbulent period of disputed territories, warring tribes, Viking ascendancy, the birth of feudalism, and the rise to power of the Roman Church.
Piecing together what little evidence survives of 11th century Scotland, On the Trail of the Real Macbeth offers intriguing historical insight into a man about whom little truth is known. It vividly evokes Macbeth's medieval Moray, chronicling key battles, investigating the royal bloodlines that roused so much contention, and exploring the evolution of the myth that was to follow one of Scotland's - and history's - most legendary figures.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of Robert the Bruce
This book from Scots historian David R Ross charts the story of Scotland's hero-king from his boyhood, through his days of indecision as Scotland suffered under the English yoke, to his assumption of the crown exactly six months after the death of William Wallace. Here is the astonishing blow by blow account of how, against fearful odds, Bruce led the Scots to win their greatest ever victory. Bannockburn was not the end of the story. The war against English oppression lasted another fourteen years. Bruce lived just long enough to see his dreams of an independent Scotland come to fruition in 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh. The trail takes us to Bruce sites in Scotland, many of the little known and forgotten battle sites in northern England, and as far afield as the Bruce monuments in Andalusia and Jerusalem.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of Robert Burns
John Cairney says it's time to trash Burns the Brand and come on the trail of the real Robert Burns. He is the best of travelling companions on this convivial, entertaining journey to the heart of the Burns story.
Internationally known as 'the face of Robert Burns', John Cairney believes that the traditional Burns tourist trail urgently needs to find a new direction. In an acting career spanning forty years he has often lived and breathed Robert Burns on stage. On the Trail of Robert Burns shows just how well he has got under the skin of Burn's complex character. This fascinating journey around Scotland is a rediscovery of Scotlands national bard as a flesh and blood genius.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of Robert Service
The story of the Scottish bank clerk who became the Bard of the Yukon, the man who captivated the imagination of generations and painlessly introduced countless numbers to the beauties of verse.
Robert Service is famed world-wide for his verse-pictures of the Klondike goldrush. As a war poet, his work outsold Owen and Sassoon, and he went on to become the world's first million-selling poet. In search of adventure and new experiences, he emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1890 where he was caught up in the aftermath of the raging gold fever. His vivid dramatic verse brings to life the wild, larger than life characters of the gold rush Yukon, their bar-room brawls, their lust for gold, their trigger-happy gambles with life and love.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of Scotland's History
Popular historian David R. Ross tracks Scotland through the ages, detailing incidents, places and people that are key to Scotland's history, from the Dark Ages to Devolution. By tracing the landscape, investigating ancient sites and monuments, and researching historical happenings and legends, the historian pieces together the events that have made Scotland the country it is today.
From following William Wallace's possible steps, the legend of King Arthur and the reign of Robert the Bruce, to rugged raging battlegrounds, moors and mountains, and Scottish film locations, Ross's journey around Scotland links the past to the present, a guide that brings us face-to-face with Scottish history.
An essential, accessible read for those who enjoy exploring the mysterious and hidden gems that Scotland has to offer.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, On the Trail of William Wallace
On the Trail of William Wallace offers a refreshing insight into the life and heritage of the great Scots hero whose proud story is at the very heart of what it means to be Scottish, and whose effect on the ordinary Scot through the ages is manifest in the many sites where his memory is marked.
In trying to piece together the jigsaw of the reality of William Wallace's life, David R Ross's book, On The Trail of Willam Wallace, weaves a subtle flow of new information with his own observations. His engaging, thoughtful and at times amusing narrative reads with the ease of a historical novel, complete with all the intrigue, treachery and romance requitred to hold the attention of the casual reader and still entice the more knowledgeable historian.
Price: £7.99
Luath Press, Ribbon of Wilderness, Discovering the Watershed of Scotland
If you have bagged the Munros, done the Caledonian Challenge and walked the West Highland Way, this is your next conquest.
The watershed of Scotland is the line that separates east from west. It meanders from Peel Fell on the English border all the way to Duncansby Head, over 745 miles.
Walk the watershed in 8 weeks or tackle sections over a weekend. 7 Route maps and over 30 colour photographs.
Price: £14.99
Luath Press, Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers
In this ground breaking book, Ian Mitchell tells the story of explorations and ascents in the Scottish Highlands in the days before mountaineering became a popular sport - when jacobites, bandits, poachers and illicit distillers traditionally used the mountain as sanctuary. Scotland's Mountains before the mountaineers is divided into four Highland regions, with a map of each region showing key summits. While not designed primarily as a guide, it is nevertheless a useful handbook for walkers and climbers.
Who were the first people to 'conquer' Scotland's mountains, and why did they do it?
Which clergyman climbed all the Cairngorm 4,000-ers nearly two centuries ago?
How many Munro's did Bonnie Prince Charlie bag?
Which bandit and sheep rustler hid in the mountains while his wife saw off the sheriff officers with a shotgun?
According to Gaelic tradition, how did an outlier of the rugged Corbett Beinn Aridh Charr come to be called Spidean Moirich, 'Martha's Peak'?
Who was the murderous clansman who gave his name to Beinn Fhionnlaidh?
Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers is divided into four Highland regions, with a map of each region showing key summits. While not designed primarily as a guide, it is nevertheless a useful handbook for walkers and climbers. Based on a wealth of new research, this book offers a fresh perspective that will fascinate climbers and mountaineers, and anyone interested in the history of mountaineering, cartography, the evolution of the landscape and the social history of the Scottish highlands.
Price: £9.99
Luath Press, Short Walks on Skye
Forty short walks on Skye. Short walks on Skye allows ramblers of all ages and abilities to experience the pleasures of exploring this beautiful island.
Price: £4.99
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Luath Press, Skye 360, Walking the coastline of Skye
Skye’s plethora of peninsulas and sea-lochs contain awesome cliffs, remote beaches, storm tossed sea-stacks, natural arches, ancient duns, romantic castles, poignant Clearance settlements, tidal islands and idyllic secluded corners.
If you want to experience Skye in all its fascinating wealth of popular tourist haunts and hidden treasures, then let this book take you on a continuous 360-mile coastal walk around this mystical black island. You will soon find that there is a lot more to discover than the celebrated Cuillin ridge, mecca for walkers and climbers from all over the world.
Price: £8.99
Luath Press, South West Scotland
A guide book to the best of Kyle, Carrick, Galloway, Dumfries-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire. A land that is comparatively unknown to visitors and indeed many Scots. Written with real affection by a local author, this is an essential book for all who visit - or live in - the country of Robert Burns.
Price: £6.99
Luath Press, The Ultimate Guide to the Munros, Vol 1
From the pen of a dedicated Munro bagger comes The Ultimate Guide to everything you've wished the other books had told you before you set off. The lowdown on the state of the path, advice on avoiding bogs and tricky situations, tips on how to determine which bump is actually the summit in misty weather... this is the only guide to the Munros you'll ever need.
This comprehensive rucksack guide features detailed descriptions of all practicable ascent routes up all 46 Southern Highland Munros and 21 Tops. Easy to follow quality and difficulty ratings, enabling you to choose a Munro for any level of experience. Annotated colour photographs and OS maps.
The history of each Munro and Top from the development of Munro's Tables from 1891 onwards
Notes on technical difficulties, foul-weather concerns, winter conditions and scenery
A brilliant book for any hillwalker - as indispensable as your boots!
Price: £14.99
Luath Press, The Ultimate Guide to the Munros, Vol 2
Volume 2 of The Ultimate Guide to the Munros series takes a tour of all the Munros of the rugged scenery of the southern Central Highlands. The Central Highlands area is the smallest of the six regions covered in the series, but is packed with more Munros than any other - so many that this area has been split into two books, Central Highlands South including Glen Coe and Central Highlands North including the Nevis Range. Volume 2 covers routes from the startling arrowhead peak of Buachaille Etive Mor, to the thrilling Aonach Eagach ridge. With all the features which made Volume 1 so popular, full colour maps and photographs throughout, details of all the practicable ascents up all the Munros and a comprehensive grading system, this is a must for hillwalkers.
Price: £14.99
Luath Press, The Ultimate Guide to the Munros, Vol 3
Volume 3 of The Ultimate Guide to the Munros by Ralph Storer explores the dramatic landscape of the Northern Central Highlands. The Central Highlands area is the smallest of the six regions covered in the series, but is packed with more Munros than any other - so many that this area has been split into two books, Central Highlands South including Glen Coe and Central Highlands North including the Nevis Range. Volume 3 covers routes around Fort William, Inverness and Perth among many others, travelling along great changing landscape, from Loch Linnhe to the Great Ben Nevis. With all the features which made Volume 1 and 2 so popular, full colour maps and photographs throughout, details of all the practicable ascents up all the Munros and a comprehensive grading system, this is a must for hillwalkers.
Price: £14.99
Luath Press, Walking through Scotland's History
Today, walking is many things for many people - a leisure activity, a weekend pursuit, or even a chore - but rarely is it an integral part of everyday life. This book explores the world, and the way of life, that Scotland has left behind.
From the Roman legions marching into Caledonia, to the 20th century's travelling commuities, Ian R. Mitchell takes us on a tour of the missionaries, mapmakers and military leaders who have trodden Scottish paths over the last 2,000 years. He also examines the lives of the drovers, distillers, fishwives and workers for whom walking was a means of survival.
This new edition includes a variety of suggested walks and places to visit for each chapter, as an incentive for those who wish to follow in the footsteps of history.
Price: £7.99
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