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| | | 5Golfers' Guide to Scotland
A substantial new publication, this full colour glossy guide is absolutely packed full of up-tio-date information on where to play, where to spectate, where to stay, and the best places to eat & drink. Also includes authoritative editorial from golf writers, profiles on Scotland's top players and comments from some of the world's top professionals.
Price: £9.95 | | |
| | | Malt Whisky
This study of the popular Scottish spirit is aimed at those who already enjoy malt but would like to know more. It combines practical information with history and debate. Today's production process is explored, along with what makes each whisky taste so different.
Price: £25.00 | |
| Clans and Tartans of Scotland
Scotland's clans number nearly 200, each with its own set of tartans. This splendid guide illustrates the various tartans as it retells many of the histories of the clans and families. It begins with a brief overview of the clan system and the tradition of wearing tartan; the clans are then organized alphabetically, with special features on the major clans, such as the Stuarts, Camerons, Campbells, and Gordons. In addition, there are dramatic colour photos throughout of the Scottish landscape as well as its castles and landmarks. Clans and Tartans of Scotland is complete with maps of clan origins and a listing of clan associations around the world.
Price: £9.99 |  | |
| | | Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopaedia
This new book covers the active and dormant clans and families of Scotland and explains Scottish Heraldry, the Clan System, Tartans and Highland Dress. A must read for anyone interested in the history and traditions of Scotland
Price: £30.00 | |
| Glencoe and The Indians
Glencoe and The Indians (no picture) Another hugely popular book by Best-selling author James Hunter The follow-up to "A Dance called America", this real-life family saga spans two continents, several centuries, and more than 30 generations to link Scotland's clans with the native peoples of the American West.
Price: £9.99 | | |
| | | A Dance Called America
A Dance Called America (no picture) Best-selling historian James Hunter's book on the Scottish influence and historic links with America & Canada. This book is hugely popular with American & Canadian readers. An account of what happened to the thousands of people who left the Scottish Highlands to make a new life in the United States and Canada. The book evaluates the impact of people from the Highlands on the "New World". (see also follow up book Glencoe and The Indians)
Price: £9.99 | |
| Carolina Scots
CAROLINA SCOTS provides an opportunity to research and better understand one's Scottish heritage. The authors examine the social, political and religious aspects that form a rich culture, making a direct link from the Scottish Highlands to eastern North Carolina. They also provide a meticulous genealogy of three to five generations of 64 families who emigrated from Scotland to the Cape Fear Valley of North Carolina and the Pee Dee Valley of South Carolina from 1739 to the 1840s, blending straight genealogy with cultural life and economic history, including more than 100 photographs, maps and art. It's easy to see how our Scottish heritage has affected Southern life, from music to speech patterns to customs. CAROLINA SCOTS provides the threads that weave through Southern traditions.
Price: £19.95 | | |
| | | Flora MacDonald - The Most Loyal Rebel
A meticulously researched and well-rounded biography of the woman who has gone down in history for helping Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) escape "Over the sea to Skye".
Price: £9.99 | |
| Dynasty: The Stuarts 1560-1807
An in depth look at the "complex, calamitous and entertaining history of a royal family
who were so awful the Scots let England share them too!".
Price: £20.00 | | |
| | | Last of The Free (A Millennial History of The Highlands and Islands of Scotland)
Best-selling historian James Hunter provides a groundbreaking, definitive history of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. He shows how they evolved and makes a passionate call for more autonomy in the new Millennium.
Price: £18.00 | |
| William Wallace - Braveheart
The hugely successful, factual biography of William Wallace by written by leading Scottish author and historian, Dr. James A Mackay. You've seen the film
.now read the fascinating truth! Highly recommended ! Sir William Wallace is one of history's greatest heroes. James Mackay uses all his skills as a historical detective to produce this definitive biography, telling the incredible story of a man who, without wealth or noble birth, rose to become Guardian of Scotland. William Wallace, led a small country with no previous warlike traditions to triumph famously over the English.
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| | | Scotland's First War of Independence
With a foreword by Nigel Tranter, this is a highly visual, accessible account of Scotland's long hard struggle to assert it's nationhood, led by William Wallace and Robert The Bruce. Lavishly illustrated throughout, it leads the reader through the events, people and places that changed the nation's destiny.
Price: £17.99 | |
| In the Footsteps of Robert The Bruce
- £25.00 (picture available to scan) Follow the life of Scotland's Hero King from his birth in 1204 to his death in 1329 in this magnificently illustrated collaboration between historian Alan Young and photographer Michael Stead.
Price: £25.00 | | |
| | | The Scottish Nation 1700 - 2000
The renowned historian Professor T.M. Devine provides a truly momentous work. The most ambitious and wide-ranging history of Scotland to be written in a generation. Highly accessible, it is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how the past 300 years has shaped the nation, its culture and its people.
Price: £25.00 | |
| Illustrated History of Scotland
From the Romans to The Twentieth century, this illustrated history takes you on a journey including The Jacobite Rebellions, The Highlanders, The Restoration and the reformation of the Scottish nation.
Price: £12.99 | | |
| | | Encyclopedia of Scotland
This comprehensive, detailed, alphabetical reference book contains some 4,000 entries (and 500 illustrations) on Scotland's history, people, arts, industries, environments, and enduring traditions. People, their institutions, and their activities were selected on the basis of Scottish provenance or association, and there are entries on individual architects, artists, botanists, Covenanters, educationalists, engineers, explorers, inventors, Jacobites, Kings and Queens, missionaries, poets, scientists, soldiers, sportsmen, and surgeons, among others.
Price: £44.99 | |
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