Travel / Essays & Travelogues

The Bone Cave is a vivid account of a month-long journey in the Scottish Highlands. Walking and occasionally hitching, Dougie Strang follows a series of folktales to the locations in which they’re set, encountering along the way a depth of meaning to them that allows him to engage with the landscape from a different perspective.

This unique and engrossing travelogue which paints a vivid picture of the journey along the ‘Camino’ trail and is also a very personal account of the way in which pilgrim journeys can be a source of emotional transformation, enable the rediscovery of our oneness with the natural, and be a source of spiritual healing.

"The condition of being human is universal I discovered and the underlying impulse to reach out and connect transcends the barriers of race, language and geographical location."

Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched by her spell-binding illustrations, in this book Mairi Hedderwick portrays the Western Isles in all their diversity, with swift and perceptive cameos of everyday life drawn with humour and affection alongside gorgeous landscapes which capture the truly magical beauty of the Hebrides.

From Tip to Top is a story of optimism and hope, an adventure of a lifetime and a ground-level portrait of the Americas as we rarely see them.Aged 69, Peter Murtagh decided it was time to embark on...

A second-generation London Irishwoman walks the Wild Atlantic Way in the footsteps of eleven pioneering women, beginning with her great-grandmother, a lacemaker on Cape Clear Island, and including Ellen Hutchins, Edna O'Brien, Granuaile, Queen Meabh and Easkey Britton.

What is it that makes this exquisite part of Italy so seductive? Historian Alistair Moffat embarks on a journey into Tuscany’s past, underlining both the area’s regional uniqueness as well as the vital role it has played in the history of the whole of Italy.

Cameron McNeish reflects on the many issues and arguments that have taken place around the Scottish and British environment over the last thirty years, but always with an appreciative eye.

This book invites you to come a step closer to the seemingly forbidding beauty of wild Ireland.

The Silver Invicta is a stream of impressions from a fishing life, in its varying moods, coloured with plenty of whisky and eccentric company. Join Tom Harland on his light-hearted journeys with his fly rod; take part in his triumphs and disasters on wild camping trips and share his encounters with the wildlife of Scotland’s rivers and lochs.