Biography & Travel Writing

When environmental journalist Marianne Brown arrived in Voe, Shetland, to attend the...

Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month...

Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel...

John Gregorson Campbell (1834-91) was one of the most outstanding folklorists working...

As stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham eat, sleep and breathe the Highlands on this epic...

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

The year is 1746. The Jacobite rebellion has failed catastrophically and Scotland is...

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

One of very few books available on Moidart in the north-west of Scotland, it evokes the...

The fascinating lives of those forgotten are brought back for a new audience through...

Part travelogue, part memoir this book is a unique and affectionate portrait of a...

In 1969, John McPhee moved his family from New Jersey across the Atlantic to live in...