Biography & Travel Writing

This is not a guide to the islands of Scotland; it's not a tour to be followed, nor is...

The British Isles are an Archipelago made up of two large islands and some 6289 smaller...

'You will laugh, and you will cry.' The extraordinary, life-affirming autobiography of...

Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a...

This book tells the remarkable story of Edward Tull-Warnock. An orphan adopted by a...

In 2021, Ruby Free, 21, got her dream job working on an RSPB reserve. But this position...

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal...

Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the...

Mike Edwards journeys across America to each of the five settlements which bear the...

In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall....

At the start of 2020, Grant McIntyre was a fit and healthy 49-year-old consultant and...

The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular...