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50 BEST ROUTES ON SKYE AND RAASAY BY RALPH
STORER,BIRLINN, PAPERBACK £7.99
A new edition of this classic
guide to the most beautiful walking terrain in the country. Whether you are a coast walker, hillwalker or enjoy shorter walks, this is a guide that will allow you to explore both the popular routes and the paths less travelled. Storer’s love for Skye and Raasay shines through and makes this an enjoyable as well as functional book.
BAGPIPES
BEASTIES AND BOGLES BY TIM
ARCHBOLD, FLORIS BOOKS, PAPERBACK £5.99
Told with few words and colourful pictures this is a funny and charming read, teaching our wee ones the story of the bagpipe. Although cleverly written with ‘Quentin Blake style’ pictures, this childrens’ book for three to six-year-olds, may be a bit too scary for the youngest.
VOICING SCOTLAND BY GARY WEST, LUATH PRESS, PAPERBACK £12.99
This evocative book is
about song and music as well as storytelling. From
Robert Burns to Dick Gaughan, Grassic Gibbon to Davy Steele, West takes the reader on a musical journey explaining how tradition is a story which is learned from the past and told in the present. West highlights the importance of tradition in the modern world.
ARTHUR’S SEAT, JOURNEYS AND EVOCATIONS BY STUART MCHARDY AND DONALD SMITH, LUATH PRESS, PAPERBACK
£7.99 To most familiar with Arthur’s Seat, the extinct volcano is about climbing up to get a great view of the city of Edinburgh. What many don’t know is the history of this defi ning Edinburgh landmark. This book is a peek back in time to fi nd out more of its history and folklore.
DA VINCI’S LAST COMMISSION
BY FIONA MCLAREN, MAINSTREAM, PAPERBACK £12.99
This is the tale of a
woman’s quest to uncover the mystery surrounding a painting that has been in her family for years. Could the Madonna and Child be the work of Da Vinci himself and can this art history detective story uncover the truth? This book is a must for fans of Dan Brown’s, The Da Vinci Code.
BELL’S COMET: HOW A PADDLE STEAMER
CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY BY P.J.G RANSOM, AMBERLEY,
PAPERBACK £16.99 Take a trip back in time and fi nd out how forward-thinking entrepreneur Henry Bell of Helensburgh started to carry passengers down the Clyde in his little steamer. Discover the man, the history and his stories in this fact fi lled book about the steam boat and where it took him.
We have teamed up with the Watermill Book Shop in Aberfeldy to launch the Scottish Field Book Club. By simply logging on to www. scottishfi
eld.co.uk/books or ringing 01887 822896 readers can now order any of the books that appear this month in Cover-to-Cover, plus many of the most popular books that have been reviewed here over the years.
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
BY ROBERT MACFARLANE PENGUIN, HARDBACK,
£20 In this new offering, the hugely cerebral author of Mountains of The Mind, sets out to paint a picture of people and cultures by walking the old paths that they have once walked. From the northern parts of Scotland, to the mountains and deserts of Palestine, Tibet and Spain, he captures the differences in continents and their paths, deciphering the clues to their preoccupations and culture through thei way they moved around the planet. Macfarlane paints vivid pictures by explaining the tiniest details of the places he visits, an approach which teases out aspects of cultures which would otherwise have remained hidden. For instance, he explains how Palestinians have been constrained by landmines.
If there is one criticism of this engaging and intelligent mix of geology, natural history, literature and archaeology, it’s the absence of suffi cient maps explaining exactly where the paths took him. It is, though, a small quibble for this is an excellent book.
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