A guide for the discerning tourist and island devotee, it describes the islands' heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna. It contains information about the key places of interest, from the rugged beaches, to the ancient buildings and ruins steeped in history. It is illustrated with over 100 colour photographs.

This inspirational guide offers 50 varied hiking and backpacking routes on the Scottish Hebrides islands, set out in a large guidebook to be savoured. The hikes highlight all the very best landscapes and scenery to be found on the spectacular islands of the Hebrides, a wonderland for adventurous walkers to return to time and time again. The hikes are suitable for experienced hikers with good fitness levels and navigational competence. Many of the routes have no waymarkers or signposts, and the terrain is often rough, rugged and pathless. The introduction to each walk clearly sets out the scope and strenuousness of any difficulties involved.

Rose Leonard, on the run from her life, has taken refuge in a remote island community, cocooned in her work and solitude in a house by the sea. However, still haunted by her past, Rose must decide whether she has chosen a new life - or just a different kind of death? Life and love are offered by new friends, her daughter, and Calum, a younger man who has his own demons to exorcise. But does Rose, with her tenuous hold on life and sanity, have the courage to say yes to life and put her past behind her?

From the abandoned crofts of Mingulay to the standing stones of Orkney, from the white beaches of Colonsay to the spectacular Cuillins of Skye, this is the first complete gazetteer to cover all of Scotland's many hundreds of islands, including both those which are uninhabited and those which are notoriously difficult to reach. Packed with information on access, anchorages, points of historical or natural interest, and things to see and do, this fascinating compendium provides indispensable information for touring, for browsing, for reference, and for all those travellers who wish to sail to some of the most beautiful and remote places in the world. No other book can begin to emulate the range and depth of the information contained in The Scottish Islands. This is an impressive work of reference, providing a fascinating personal view of Scotland's distant outposts. Guide, history, travelogue - it is essential reading for all who love Scotland.