Filled with dramatic photographs of castles and countryside, this celebration of the Scottish highlands mixes tradition, history, and lore to introduce readers to this unique region.

Living in the Highlands

Arts & Photography

Martine, Roddy

Astaire, Lesley

Photography & Video

Thames&Hudson

This luminously photographed book will dispel forever the notion that the typical Scots home is cheerless, dark, and forbidding. To the contrary, Living in Scotland bears witness to the Scots genius for timeless architecture and a vivid palette of rich colors and fabrics. For while the landscape is sometimes harsh, the interiors and gardens presented in this handsome volume offer an inviting tapestry of infinite variety, unexpected and constantly dazzling. Over the centuries the Scots have been great travelers and, consequently, great collectors. Their homes reflect an innate ability to blend the old with the new, the curious with the conventional. This splendid book transports the reader behind the facades of stately homes, small castles, fishing lodges, and inner-city apartments. With the exception of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterful Hill House, all the properties are private residences. Some, such as the Queen Mother's Glamis Castle, are well known; others, such as an astonishing Art Deco flat in Glasgow and Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden in Lanarkshire, are unexpected treats. The result is an absorbing view of the customs of Scotland and the Scots way of life.

Living in Scotland

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Von Der Schulenburg, Fritz

Crafts & Hobbies

This officially sponsored guide fact packed and illustrated throughout in glorious colour, is the indispensable souvenir to this historic pageant. For over fifty years the Edinburgh Military Tattoo has thrilled and dazzled visitors to Scotland's Capital, not to mention the Scots who loyally turn out annually with their families. Roddy Martine tells the story of the Tattoo from the first displays at the Castle and in Princes Street Gardens to the present day. The theme of those first displays was 'There's something special about a soldier'. In words and pictures Roddy Martine captures the atmosphere which gives the Tattoo its special appeal. The enormous following enjoyed by Edinburgh's Tattoo goes to prove that for a large number of people all over the world there is still 'something about a soldier'.

Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Humor & Entertainment

Robert Hale, Ltd.

A journey through Scotland's history and landscape. With colour photographs and text, this book describes Scotland in all its moods, and how whisky has emerged from this environment over the last 500 years. From Speyside and the Highlands, to Islay and the Western Isles, there are stories to tell.

Scotland: The Land and the Whiskey

Travel

Europe

John Murray Pubs Ltd

Illustrates the many varieties and styles of decoration that can be found in Scottish homes today

At Home in Scotland

Abbeville Pr

Scotch whiskey has been celebrated and maligned, promoted and proscribed, taxed and smuggled. Single Malt Scotch is a glorious celebration of Scotch whiskey's history and of its place in Scottish culture and society, certain to delight and inform anyone with a taste for the delicious amber "water of life." 160+ full-color photos.

Single Malt Scotch

Milne, Bill

Gardening & Landscape Design

Metro_Books

Song and dance are at the very centre of any nation's culture and are said to represent the innermost character of a people. The whirling, dashing and spinning of the classic Scottish reels are no exception. Here, Roddy Martine and Andrew Campbell provide a lighthearted guide to the basic steps of Scottish reels and country dances, all broken down into bullet points and illustrated with easy-to-follow diagrams. With further, indisposable hints on the social niceties of reeling, the conventions of the dance and the timetable of the Scottish social season, The Swinging Sporran is a hilarious companion to anyone who ventures into the social world north of the border.

The Swinging Sporran

Campbell, Andrew

Humor

Birlinn Ltd.

Nestling in an exquisite glen just seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel is one of the world's most extraordinary places. Ever since it was built in the mid fifteenth century it has cast a mesmerising spell over all who have visited it, exuding an aura of profound mystery, as if it holds the key to some vast, unearthly secret.Six hundred years later it continues to confound and intrigue, inspiring stories of The Knights Templar, the Holy Grail and a myriad of esoteric beliefs, most notably in the 1980s bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which made the chapel known to millions throughout the word. In this book Roddy Martine sifts through mounds of unfounded conjecture and fantasy to make sense of it all. The Secrets of Rosslyn is the only book that lets the facts speak for themselves, showing ultimately that the truth is no less amazing than fiction.

The Secrets of Rosslyn

History

Birlinn

Throughout the world there exists an enduring fascination with our ancestry – who we are and where we come from. Nowhere is this more evident than with the generations of Scots who over the centuries have left their native Scotland to create a new life in the New World – North America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.\nThe Scots are a remarkable race with a justifiably proud history and culture which they have successfully passed on through generations. This compact book sets out to identify the larger Scottish clan and family names, their tartans, septs (dependent family names), heraldic crests, mottos, ancestral lands and allegiances.\nThis book features full colour photographs of each tartan as opposed to digital reproductions, allowing readers to see both the textures and patterns.

Clans and Tartans of Scotland

Nestling in an exquisite glen just seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel is one of the world's most extraordinary places. Ever since it was built in the mid fifteenth century it has cast a mesmerising spell over all who have visited it, exuding an aura of profound mystery, as if it holds the key to some vast, unearthly secret. Six hundred years later it continues to confound and intrigue, inspiring stories of The Knights Templar, the Holy Grail and a myriad of esoteric beliefs, most notably in the 1980s bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which made the chapel known to millions throughout the word.In this book Roddy Martine sifts through mounds of unfounded conjecture and fantasy to make sense of it all. The Secrets of Rosslyn is the only book that lets the facts speak for themselves, showing ultimately that the truth is no less amazing than fiction.

Origin

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Living in the Highlands

Living in Scotland

Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Scotland: The Land and the Whiskey

At Home in Scotland

Single Malt Scotch

The Swinging Sporran

The Secrets of Rosslyn

Clans and Tartans of Scotland

The Secrets of Rosslyn