Biography & Travel Writing

The Shipping Forecast has been described as the UK's national lullaby: a source of...

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...

In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with...

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy...

The Outer Hebrides is an island archipelago on the remotest north-western periphery of...

Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis,...

The Gaelic pharmacy was rich, the sources of which lay almost entirely in nature and...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands?...

To know Sir Walter Scott as a man is as delightful and fruitful an experience as to...

As a barefoot lad in the Outer Hebrides, Bill Innes dreamed the impossible dream of...

This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish...