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  • hedderwick-hebridean-notebook

    Hedderwick Hebridean Notebook

    £6.99

    Following the immense success of the Hebridean diaries, birthday books, and address books, Birlinn have added a notebook to it’s attractive range of Hebridean stationery.

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    Hebridean Birthday Book

    £7.99

    Following the immense success of the 'Hebridean' diaries and address books in 2005, Birlinn has decided to add a birthday book to this attractive range of stationery.

  • hedderwick-hebridean-calendar-2013

    Hedderwick Hebridean Calendar 2013

    £9.99

    This beautiful Hebridean calendar features distinctive full-colour paintings by one of Scotland's best-loved authors and artists, it is a wonderful celebration of the extraordinary natural beauty of the Hebrides throughout the seasons.

  • golf-on-the-rocks-a-journey-round-scotlands-island-courses

    Golf on the Rocks – A Journey Round Scotland’s Island Courses

    £8.99

    Gary Sutherland was a lapsed golfer, until he acquired his late dad's putter. After studying a crumpled golf map of Scotland, Gary decided to embark on a voyage. His target was to play 18 rounds of golf on 18 Scottish islands in honour of his dad, a ship's captain who, when he wasn't at sea, was never off the golf course.

  • hedderwick-hebridean-pocket-diary-2013

    Hedderwick Hebridean Pocket Diary 2013

    £7.99

    This hardback pocket diary is illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick's beautiful sketches of the Hebrides through the seasons.

  • hedderwick-hebridean-desk-diary-2013

    Hedderwick Hebridean Desk Diary 2013

    £12.99

    This hardback desk diary is illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick's beautiful sketches of the Hebrides through the seasons.

  • flora-celtica-plants-and-people-in-scotland

    Flora Celtica – Plants and People in Scotland

    £30

    Flora Celtica – Plants and People in Scotland documents the continuously evolving relationship between the Scots and their environment.

  • the-fantastical-feats-of-finn-maccoul

    The Fantastical Feats of Finn MacCoul

    £12.99

    This collection of mystical folk tales about the Celtic hero Finn MacCoul is magical and bloodthirsty compendium full of humour, love and heroism.

  • ferry-tales-of-argyll-and-the-isles

    Ferry Tales of Argyll and the Isles

    £9.99

    Ferry Tales of Argyll and the Isles is about the ferries that ply the waters off the coast and along the lochs have been part of the fabric of life in Argyll and the Isles.

  • fungi-of-the-hebrides

    Fungi of the Hebrides

    £30

    Fungi of the Hebrides is a substantial catalogue of the collections of fungi made in the Hebrides over more than 30 years, the total number of species recorded being 2,905, of which 507 are Imperfecti.

  • hedderwick-shetland-rambles

    Hedderwick Shetland Rambles

    £14.99

    Shetland Rambles is a beautiful, poignant and entertaining journey through the islands by one of Scotland's best loved authors and illustrators and packed with incidental detail and charm.

  • hedderwick-sea-change

    Hedderwick Sea Change

    £14.99

    In Sea Change, writer and illustrator Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-week summer voyage from the east to the west of Scotland in the antique teak, 26-foot long cruising yacht The Anassa, sailing through the Caledonian Canal and visiting, among others, Loch Linnhe, Loch Etive, Lochs Ailort, Moidart, Nevis and Leven.

  • fire-in-the-head

    Fire in the Head

    £11

    Fire in the Head - Campbell Aaronson, one of the scientist who worked on the American bomb at Los Alamos, is now a pacifist composer living in a remote community on the west coast of Scotland.

  • exploring-the-isles-of-the-west-journeys-to-the-western-islands-of-scotland-firth-of-clyde-to-the-small-isles

    Exploring the Isles of the West

    £9.99

    Marc Calhoun lives in Seattle in the Western United States, fully 5000 miles away from the Hebrides, but he has been fascinated by their landscape and history ever since seriously beginning to explore the western islands of Scotland over twenty years ago.

  • hedderwick-highland-journey

    Hedderwick Highland Journey – Sketching Tour of Scotland

    £14.99

    Hedderwick Highland Journey is a sketching tour of Scotland retracing the footsteps of Victorian Artist John T. Reid.

  • Exploring-the-Inner-Hebrides

    Exploring the Inner Hebrides

    £12.99

    Exploring the Inner Hebrides records the impressions of a southern-based naturalist exploring northwards along the island-dotted Minch.

  • history-of-skye

    History Of Skye

    £25

    Third edition of Alexander Nicolson's popular history of the Isle of Skye

  • highland-homespun

    Highland Homespun

    £8.99

    In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, Highland Homespun recounts a year of farming life in the West Highlands, from the burning of the land and ploughing in March, through planting and sowing in April to haymaking and harvesting in September.

  • exploring-the-islands-of-scotland

    Exploring the Islands of Scotland

    £17.99

    Exploring the Islands of Scotland is both beautiful and practical and not only provides the intrepid traveller with a fascinating insight into each island's history and flora and fauna, but also contains valuable information on how to get there, tourist information, what to see, where to stay and island walks.

  • dualchas-araid-agus-priseil-a-unique-and-precious-culture-the-changing-face-of-south-uist-and-eriskay

    A Unique and Precious Culture – The Changing Face of South Uist and Eriskay

    £20

    A Unique and Precious Culture – The Changing Face of South Uist and Eriskay is a selection of 100 magnificent Black and White photographs, taken by the late Dr Kenneth Robertson in the 1950s and 60s, bring vividly to live what is now a bygone age in South Uist and Eriskay.

  • the-decline-and-fall-of-st-kilda-the-proceedings-of-an-international-conference-organised-by-the-islands-book-trust-in-august-2005-to-mark-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-evacuation-of-st-kilda

    The Decline and Fall of St Kilda

    £12

    This thought-prooking volume is based on the very successful conference held in Great Bernera, Lewis in August 2005 to mark the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of St Kilda.

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    Destination St Kilda

    £19.99

    In 1885 Aberdeen photographers George Washington Wilson and Norman MacLeod travelled through the Western Isles of Scotland to St Kilda. They took many photographs along the way and their collection of pictures, `From Oban to Skye' and `The Outer Hebrides' were seen as lantern slides throughout the UK and around the world.

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    A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695 – A Voyage to St Kilda

    £9.99

    A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695 : A Voyage to St Kilda. It is three hundred years since Martin Martin's great journey around the Western Isles, Orkneys and Shetlands. The first and one of the greatest of all travellers in Scotland.

  • daring-to-fly

    Daring to Fly

    £45

    Daring to Fly is a collection of the wildlife paintings of Colin Wooolf.