Biography & Travel Writing

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...

The classic story of Robert Blair Mayne, late commanding officer of the first Special...

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

Catherine Munro transforms her life when she moves to Shetland to study the hardy...

They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know...

This is the first biography of Jean Gordon, who is best known as the first wife of the...

Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single...

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...