walks treks climbs - Southern Uplands Cairngorms Skye - Scotland

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• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Updates
• Reviews
• Further Reading

History and Culture

A Cairngorm Chronicle by A.F. Whyte (Millrace, 2007)

A High and Lonely Place: The Sanctuary and Plight of the Cairngorms by Jim Crumley (Whittles, 2001)

Always A Little Further by Alastair Borthwick (Diadem, 1983)

Autumnal Rambles among the Scottish Mountains by Thomas Grierson (James Hogg, 1851)

Bell’s Scottish Climbs by J.H.B. Bell (Gollancz, 1988)

Ben Nevis: Britain’s Highest Mountain by Ken Crocket and Simon Richardson (SMC, 2007)

Ben Nevis: The Story of Mountain and Glen by Rennie McOwan (Lang Syne, 1990)

The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui by Affleck Gray (Birlinn, 2000)

Burn on the Hill: The story of the first ‘Compleat Munroist’ by Elizabeth Allan (Bidean Books, 1995)

The Cairngorm Gateway by Ann Glen (Scottish Cultural Press, 2008)

A Century of Scottish Mountaineering: an Anthology from the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal edited by W.D. Brooker (SMC, 1988)

The Cuillin: Great Mountain Ridge of Skye by Gordon Stainforth (Constable, 1994)

The First Munroist: The Reverend A. E. Robertson: His Life, Munros and Photographs by Peter Drummond and Ian Mitchell (The Ernest Press, 1993)

Glen Feshie: The History and Archaeology of a Highland Glen by Meryl M. Marshall (North of Scotland Archaeological Society, 2006)

Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland by John MacCulloch (Longman, 1984)

Highways and Byways in the Central Highlands by Seton Gordon (Birlinn, 1995, first published 1935)

Highways and Byways in the West Highlands by Seton Gordon (Birlinn, 1995, first published 1935)

The Life and Times of the Black Pig: A Biography of Ben Macdui by Ronald Turnbull (Millrace, 2007)

Legends of the Cairngorms by Affleck Gray (Mainstream, 1887)

Magic Mountains by Rennie McOwan (Mainstream, 1994)

The Man Who Bought Mountains by Rennie McOwan (National Trust for Scotland, 1978)

Mountaineering in Scotland and Undiscovered Scotland by W. H. Murray (1947 and 1951, republished in one volume by Baton Wicks, 1997)

The Munro Phenomenon by Andrew Dempster (Mainstream, 1995)

The Munroist’s Companion: An Anthology compiled and edited by Robin N.Campbell (SMT, 1999)

On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands by Ian R. Mitchell (Luath, 2000)

On the Trail of Scotland’s Myths and Legends by Stuart McHardy (Luath, 2005)

Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland by Dorothy Wordsworth (Yale University Press, 1997, written 1803–1805, first published 1874)

Scotland’s Mountains Before the Mountaineers by Ian R. Mitchell (Luath, 1999)

Scottish Hill Names: Their Origin and Meaning by Peter Drummond (Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 2nd revised edition, 2007)

The Scottish Tourist edited by W.Rhind and published in 1825

Seton Gordon’s Scotland by Seton Gordon (an anthology edited by Hamish Brown, Whittles, 2005)

Skisters: The Story of Scottish Skiing by Myrtle Simpson (Landmark Press, 1982)

The Weathermen of Ben Nevis 1883–1904 by Marjory Roy (The Royal Meteorological Society, 2004)

Recent Walking Accounts

A View From The Ridge by Dave Brown and Ian Mitchell (The Ernest Press, 1991)

Hamish’s Mountain Walk: the First Traverse of all the Scottish Munros in One Journey by Hamish Brown (first published 1978, new edition Sandstone Press, 2010)

Hell of a Journey: On Foot Through The Scottish Highlands In Winter by Mike Cawthorne (Mercat Press, 2000)

Mountain Days and Bothy Nights by Dave Brown and Ian Mitchell (Luath Press, 1987)

The First Fifty: Munro-Bagging Without A Beard by Muriel Gray (Corgi, 1993)

The Last Hundred: Munros, Beards and a Dog by Hamish Brown (Mainstream, 1994)

The Munros and Tops: A Record-Setting Walk in the Scottish Highlands by Chris Townsend (Mainstream, 2nd edition 2003)

The Munros In Winter: 277 Summits in 83 Days by Martin Moran (David & Charles, 1986)

Walking the Watershed: The Border to Cape Wrath along Scotland’s Great Divide by Dave Hewitt (TACit Press, 1994)

The Weekend Fix by Craig Weldon (Sandstone Press, 2009)

Wilderness Dreams: the Call of Scotland’s Last Wild Places by Mike Cawthorne (The In Pinn, 2007)

Skills

A Chance in a Million? – Scottish Avalanches by Bob Barton and Blyth Wright (SMT, 2nd edition 2000)

Hillwalking by Steve Long (Mountain Leader Training UK, 2003)

Mountaincraft and Leadership edited by Eric Langmuir (Sport Scotland, 1995)

The Backpacker’s Handbook by Chris Townsend (Ragged Mountain Press, Third Edition 2005)

The Hillwalker’s Guide to Mountaineering by Terry Adby and Stuart Johnston (Cicerone Press, 2003)

The Mountain Skills Training Handbook by Pete Hill and Stuart Johnston (David & Charles, 2000)

Geology, Landscape, Conservation and Natural History Books

Among Mountains by Jim Crumley (Mainstream, 1993)

Beinn Eighe: The Mountain Above The Wood by J. Laughton Johnston and Dick Balharry (Birlinn, 2001)

The Cairngorms: Their Natural History and Scenery by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson and Adam Watson (Collins, 1974)

The Carrifran Wildwood Story by Myrtle and Philip Ashmole (Borders Forest Trust, 2009)

Days with the Golden Eagle by Seton Gordon (Whittles, 2002)

The Heart of the Cairngorms by Jim Crumley (Colin Baxter, 1997)

The Heart of Skye by Jim Crumley (Colin Baxter, 1994)

The Highlands and Islands by F. Fraser Darling and Morton Boyd (Collins, 1969)

Flora Celtica: Plants and People in Scotland by William Milliken and Sam Bridgewater (Birlinn, 2004)

Granite and Grit: A Walker’s Guide to the Geology of the British Mountains by Ronald Turnbull (Frances Lincoln, 2009)

Hostile Habitats: Scotland’s Mountain Environment: a Hillwalkers' Guide to Wildlife and Landscape edited by Nick Kempe and Mark Wrightman (SMT, 2006)

Landscapes and Lives: The Scottish Forest through the Ages by John Fowler (Canongate, 2003)

Land of Mountain and Flood: the Geology and Landforms of Scotland by Alan McKirdy, John Gordon and Roger Crofts (Birlinn, 2007)

The Nature of the Cairngorms: Diversity in a Changing Environment by Philip Shaw and Des Thompson (The Stationery Office, 2006)

Nevis – the Hill, the Glen, the River by Alex Gillespie (Alex Gillespie Photography, 2007)

Revival of the Land: Creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve by Paul Ramsey (SNH, 1996)

People and Woods in Scotland: A History edited by T.C. Smout (Edinburgh University Press, 2002)

Scotland’s Beginnings: Scotland Through Time by Michael A. Taylor and Andrew C. Kitchener (NMSE, 2007)

Scotland’s Mountains by W.H. Murray (SMT, 1987)

Scottish Birds by Valerie Thom and Norman Arlott (Collins, 2005)

Scottish Wild Flowers by Michael Scott (Collins, 2008)

So Foul and Fair a Day: A History of Scotland’s Weather and Climate by Alastair Dawson (Birlinn, 2009)

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth’s Antiquity by Jack Repcheck (Pocket Books, 2004)

Torridon, the Nature of the Place by Chris Lowe (Wester Ross Net, 2000)

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