Best-Kept Secrets of Scotland

North, South, East and West, Scotland is a land of contrasts, with towering mountain ranges, rolling hills, sandy white beaches, rushing rivers, wild moorland and glassy lochs. From its islands and highlands to its lowlands and coastline, the country contains some of Europe's most breathtaking scenery.

About the author

Michael Kerrigan (author) has written on the history, mythology, arts and culture of many different countries, from India to Ireland and from Mongolia to Peru. His abridgements of The Journals of Lewis and Clark (2004) and Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle: The Journals that Revealed Nature’s Grand Plan (2005) presented the explorers’ own journals, in their own words, for modern readers. More recently he has been author of Best-kept Secrets of Paris (2012), Undiscovered Wales (2015) and A Dark History of China (2019). A longstanding contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, he lives with his family in Edinburgh.

Summary

North, South, East and West, Scotland is a land of contrasts, with towering mountain ranges, rolling hills, sandy white beaches, rushing rivers, wild moorland and glassy lochs. From its islands and highlands to its lowlands and coastline, the country contains some of Europe's most breathtaking scenery.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Keerigan, Michael Kerrigan
• Assisted by: Dennis Hardley (Photographer), Dennis Hardley (Photographs)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2014
• EAN: 9781783613052
• ISBN: 978-1-78361-305-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 245 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Best Kept Secrets; Best Kept Secrets
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Pictorials, Scotland, Flame Tree Illustrated