Scotland Highlands & Islands Footprint Handbook by Alan Murphy

Scotland Highlands & Islands Footprint Handbook by Alan Murphy

When the rain stops falling and the mist clears there is no more beautiful place on earth than Scotland’s Highlands and Islands, Europe’s last great wilderness. Hailed as the best guidebook to the region, Footprint’s `Scotland Highlands and Islands’ gives you everything you need to get the most out of your trip; the loveliest glens and lochs, the spookiest places, the most evocative castles and most glorious beaches are all here along with the best places to stay and eat and where to enjoy a wee dram of your favourite malt whiskey. You can get off the beaten track and discover the jaw-dropping scenery including national parks, mountains, castles, glens and lochs. There are accommodation listings aplenty, B&Bs, bothies and baronial castles. It includes fantastic mapping to help you navigate your way around the vibrant cities, stunning highlands and literally hundreds of islands this beautiful country has to offer.

This is a book whose author obviously has a deep love for Scotland and equally obviously knows it intimately...the book is certainly comprehensive, but the overall physical size has been kept to a minimum, with added durability coming from the hard covers. As a result you have a comprehensive guide to the Highlands and islands which is almost pocket sized, and certainly rucksack pocket sized. In terms of contents, everything you might expect, want or need is here, from travel to food and drink, and from wild camping to Internet access. Most of the book is given over to sections about geographical regions, in which information is keyed into adequate maps of areas, islands and some towns, supplemented by a full colour mini atlas of the whole country. The approach adopted in the body of the book carries over from the introduction quoted above. Alan Murphy has a style that reads well, and while the fairly condensed conveyance of facts is inevitably a constraint, the author's approach adds much to the experience of finding out what you need to know: or browsing through the book while simply looking for ideas. www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk

When Alan Murphy upped sticks and left the fleshpots of Dundee to start his own seaweed-collecting business on a remote island croft, many saw it as a cry for kelp. But Alan not only survived several bleak Hebridean winters, he went on to found a sanctuary for wayward seal pups and devoted the next 10 years of his life to working with young stray marine mammals. Later, following a chance encounter with the editor of Footprint’s South American Handbook in a sleazy salsa bar in Soho, London, Alan turned his hand to travel writing, trading the rain swept peat moors of northern Scotland for the steamy jungles of South America to research and write Footprint guides to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela. But the pull of his homeland was too strong and Alan eventually returned to Scotland to write new Footprint guides to Scotland, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Scotland Highlands & Islands. Alan now resides in the bohemian Somerset market town of Frome with his wife and three children.

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ISBN 13	9781907263323
ISBN 10	1907263322
Title	Scotland Highlands & Islands Footprint Handbook
Author	Alan Murphy
Series	Footprint Handbook
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Footprint Travel Guides
Year published	2011-04-04
Number of pages	496
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.