The ultimate insider's guide to the Scottish Highlands for locals and experienced travelers
Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
Part of the international 111 Places series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide
Appeals to both the local market (more than 238,000 people call the Scottish Highlands home)and the tourist market (more than 8 million people visit the Scottish Highlands every year!)
Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs
The Scottish Highlands are at the most northerly extreme of mainland Britain. The region was once a place of turmoil and bloodshed, of clan warfare and royal misadventure. Now the Highlands are somewhere to explore at leisure. It is a place rich in history, a land of hills and craggy mountains, of secluded coves and sandy beaches, and appealing towns and villages. With this book as your guide, meet Felicity, a large and friendly puma; learn the rules of Shinty, a unique and popular Highland sport; sit in the shade of Europes oldest living tree; take a turn around the Devils Elbow, if you dare; find yourself at the very center of Scotland; visit a fairy village; take a stroll around an impossible garden; and shake it all about at the Earthquake House. Written by someone who loves the Scottish Highlands whatever the weather, this book will help you explore this wonderfully beautiful region.
Birnam Oak | Cairngorms
The Scottish Play | 10
Braemar Gathering | Cairngorms
A living tradition | 12
The Centre of Scotland | Cairngorms
Right in the middle? | 14
The Devils Elbow | Cairngorms
Turn that steering wheel | 16
Fortingall | Cairngorms
It had to be yew | 18
Grantown-on-Spey | Cairngorms
Town planning, 18th-century style | 20
Highlands Wildlife | Cairngorms
Animal magic | 22
Laggan | Cairngorms
Adapted for the screen | 24
Lecht Mine | Cairngorms
Any old iron | 26
Old Packhorse Bridge | Cairngorms
Crossing the River Dulnain | 28
Prince Alberts Pyramid | Cairngorms
Four-sided tribute | 30
Ruthven Barracks | Cairngorms
Hanover vs Stuart | 32
Schiehallion | Cairngorms
Massively attractive | 34
Shinty | Cairngorms
Scotlands national sport? | 36
Wildcat Trail | Cairngorms
Miaow | 38
Duncansby Stacks | Caithness
Temporary (geologically speaking) | 40
Dunnet Head | Caithness
Lots of planets have a north | 42
Ebenezer Place | Caithness
Blink, but dont miss it | 44
John O Groats | Caithness
The end or the beginning? | 46
Latheronwheel Fairy Glen | Caithness
Would suit (very) small family | 48
Needle Eye Rock | Caithness
For the birds | 50
Nucleus | Caithness
The mighty power of the atom | 52
Nybster Broch | Caithness
Home from home | 54
Old Pulteney Distillery | Caithness
Briefly surplus to requirements | 56
Reay Cross Slab | Caithness
Ancient wonder | 58
Thurso Railway Station | Caithness
The southbound train is now departing | 60
Whaligoe Steps | Caithness
Herring aid | 62
Wick Heritage Centre | Caithness
The silver darlings | 64
Wolfburn Distillery | Caithness
Sląinte mhath! | 66
Clava Cairns | Inverness and Loch Ness
Round and round we go | 68
Culloden Battlefield | Inverness and Loch Ness
Jacobites vs Redcoats | 70
The Falls of Foyers | Inverness and Loch Ness
Cold water for Burns | 72
Felicity the Puma | Inverness and Loch Ness
The big friendly moggy | 74
Leakeys Bookshop | Inverness and Loch Ness
For bibliophiles | 76
Loch Ness | Inverness and Loch Ness
Cryptozoology | 78
The Malt Room | Inverness and Loch Ness
The Water of Life | 80
NC500 | Inverness and Loch Ness
Follow the signs | 82
Shooglie Bridge | Inverness and Loch Ness
Wibbly-wobbly | 84
St Columbas Well | Inverness and Loch Ness
A saint helps out | 86
Town House | Inverness and Loch Ness
PM puts holiday on pause | 88
Victorian Market | Inverness and Loch Ness
A phoenix from the ashes | 90
Wardlaw Mausoleum | Inverness and Loch Ness
Heading for trouble | 92
Applecross Pass | Ross and Cromarty
White knuckle ride? | 94
Arctic Convoy Area | Ross and Cromarty
Keeping a watch | 96
Corrieshalloch Gorge | Ross and Cromarty
Dont look down | 98
Cromarty Courthouse | Ross and Cromarty
Porridge may be on the menu | 100
Cromarty Firth | Ross and Cromarty
The fourth firth north of the Firth of Forth | 102
Eilean Donan | Ross and Cromarty
Family seat | 104
Fainmore House | Ross and Cromarty
Tuber troubles | 106
Fyrish Monument | Ross and Cromarty
Keynesian economics? | 108
Highland Cows | Ross and Cromarty
Beefy beasties | 110
Hugh Millers Cottage | Ross and Cromarty
Geology genius | 112
Inverewe Gardens | Ross and Cromarty
Impossible is just a word | 114
Invergordon Murals | Ross and Cromarty
Painting the town red (and blue and green) | 116
Loch Torridon | Ross and Cromarty
Lets buy an estate | 118
MacFarquhars Bed | Ross and Cromarty
No rest for the wicked | 120
Peach and Horne | Ross and Cromarty
Unravelling the mysteries of Earth | 122
Ullapool Clock | Ross and Cromarty
Tick tock star | 124
Alexander McQueen Grave | Skye
Style guru | 126
Angus MacAskill | Skye
Gentle giant | 128
Dinosaur Footprints | Skye
Sandy claws | 130
Elgol | Skye
Go for the history, stay for the view | 132
Fairy Pools | Skye
Crystal clear | 134
Flora MacDonald Monument | Skye
Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing | 136
Neist Point | Skye
Not Doris day | 138
Old Man of Storr | Skye
Myths and modern horror | 140
Skye Bridge | Skye
Paying a heavy toll | 142
Trotternish Ridge | Skye
The ups and downs of a landscape | 144
Aberfoyle | Southern Highlands
Scotlands worst poet waxes lyrical | 146
Bracklinn Falls | Southern Highlands
Great Scott! | 148
Earthquake House | Southern Highlands
Shake it all about | 150
The Falls of Dochart | Southern Highlands
Water sight | 152
Lake of Menteith | Southern Highlands
The one and only? | 154
Loch Katrine | Southern Highlands
A lady and an engineer | 156
Loch Lomond | Southern Highlands
Whos at fault here? | 158
McCaigs Tower | Southern Highlands
Flumgummery? | 160
Pulpit Hill | Southern Highlands
Look down on Oban | 162
Rob Roys Grave | Southern Highlands
Loveable rogue | 164
St Conans Kirk | Southern Highlands
Something for everyone | 166
Ardvreck Castle | Sutherland
Royalist loyalist | 168
Balnakeil Craft Village | Sutherland
Waste not, want not | 170
Bone Caves | Sutherland
Ancient animals | 172
Cape Wrath | Sutherland
Turning a corner | 174
Clachtoll Beach | Sutherland
Layers of history | 176
Croick Church | Sutherland
Shaming signatures | 178
Dornoch Cathedral | Sutherland
A saint and a material girl | 180
Dunrobin Castle | Sutherland
Home from home | 182
Hermits Castle | Sutherland
Downsizing | 184
Kylesku Bridge | Sutherland
Better by design | 186
The Old Man of Stoer | Sutherland
Climbing to the top | 188
RAF Memorial | Sutherland
Mountain tragedy | 190
Smoo Cave | Sutherland
Rock of Ages | 192
The Split Stane | Sutherland
Old Nick nicks old rock | 194
Suilven | Sutherland
Star quality | 196
The Wee Hoose | Sutherland
Lo-res des-res | 198
Ardnamurchan Point | Western Highlands
Westward Ho! | 200
Ben Nevis | Western Highlands
You take the high road | 202
Buachaille Etive Mņr | Western Highlands
Climb a Munro today | 204
Caledonian Canal | Western Highlands
Making a connection | 206
Camusdarach Beach | Western Highlands
Texan takeover? | 208
Castle Stalker | Western Highlands
Your mother was a hamster | 210
Clachaig Gully | Western Highlands
Because its there | 212
Commando Memorial | Western Highlands
Special forces | 214
Glen Nevis | Western Highlands
Thats Mamores | 216
Glenfinnan Monument | Western Highlands
Clansman | 218
Glenfinnan Viaduct | Western Highlands
Full steam ahead | 220
The Great Glen | Western Highlands
A true north / south divide | 222
Kinlochleven | Western Highlands
Water features | 224
Monster Midge | Western Highlands
Testy tetse | 226
Rannoch Moor | Western Highlands
A place to get away from things | 228
The Well of the Seven Heads | Western Highlands
Look around you | 230
Newcastle-born David Taylor is a professional freelance landscape photographer and writer who now lives in Northumberland. His first camera was a Kodak Instamatic. Since then hes used every type of camera imaginable: from bulky 4x5 film cameras to pocket-sized digital compacts. David has written nearly 40 books about photography, as well as supplying images and articles to both regional and national magazines. When David is not outdoors he can be found at home with his wife, a cat, and a worryingly large number of tripods.
