Fewer places on this planet have been as blessed by natural beauty as Scotland has been. The gentle slopes and rivers of the southern reaches have inspired poetry and paintings for centuries. Head north into the Highlands and you’ll find a kind of beauty that doesn’t exist anywhere else. From the glens to the mountains, from Loch Ness to Loch Lomond, writers who traffic in the natural world have had fewer greater places of inspiration than Scotland.
The same goes for travel writers. While ostensibly less populated than other parts of Britain, the freedom one feels while traveling through Scotland makes for incredible prose work. Walking in the footsteps of the clans, moving through the Highlands is like moving through time itself. With the best books and writers as a guide, readers will be able to find the very best spots and hidden gems in the country. Even for those with less time for traveling, picking up a great travel book allows you to embrace your inner adventurer without ever having to leave your living room!
East Neuk Books takes pride in our fantastic collection of Scottish nature and travel books. From classic tomes on travel in the times of olde to autobiographies of modern day travellers and guides, we have it all. Not only that, but our region-specific volumes will be of great interests not only to students of the natural world, but to those of history as well. And thankfully for the rest of us, the well-written prose allows for an easy read through territory that most of us have found only in the most academic of contexts.
So if you’re looking to buy nature and travel books online, take a gander at the great titles and authors below. From Gavin Maxwell to Jim Crumley to Mike Tomkies, you’ll be in the best of hands as you take a journey through the north of Britain and deep into the heart of Scotland.
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"That good old farming saying 'make hay while the sun shines' is true in so many ways ... " Life on a family farm is always full of its ups and dow...
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Discover over 500 species of sea shell from around the world with this pocket visual guide! This comprehensive handbook combines authoritative text...
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Shetland : Cooking on the Edge of the World by James Morton, Tom Morton "A wonderful slice of home, food and family from one of the most beautiful ...
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The Neolithic village known as Skara Brae was continuously occupied for about 300 to 400 years, before being abandoned around 2500 BC. Despite seve...
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In the 1950s - as tractors displaced the use of Highland ponies on our farms - the breed found a new purpose in pony trekking. In this book Heidi S...
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This is the first bird book (1986) to cover Fife in detail and also the first avifauna of any Scottish Lowland region. It contains a systematic lis...
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This brand new anthology is comprised of creative prose, non-fiction and poetry that ranges from St. Columba to the present day, all linked by the ...
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“We have been”, is the proud motto of the Bruces, whose most famous son was the great warrior king Robert the Bruce, who achieved a glorious and de...
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Although not the largest of the border counties, Berwickshire contained some of the largest landed estates and was home to some of the most famous ...
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Sometimes referred to as “Scotland’s Gatekeeper”, lying as it does just east of the capital along the Firth of Forth, East Lothian has had an often...
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Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds h...
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The Debatable Land : The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist...
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Helen Peters' sequel to The Secret Hen House Theatre has all the same hallmarks: great writing and an emotionally engaging, entertaining story. It'...
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The Fife Coast has long been a popular area for walkers. Hamish Brown, writer, traveller and climber, has compiled a fascinating book of walks whic...
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36 photographs and 9 sketch maps of the costal path along fife.
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High quality, specially created strip map of this unique 117 mile coastal path from the Kincardine Bridge to Newburgh on the Firth of Tay. This new...
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Packed with over almost 100 images and countless stories, it brings to life the fascinating communities and the characters along the route in whose...
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A handy, waterproof map breaking down the Fife Pilgrim Way into seven sections. The Fife Pilgrim Way runs between North Queensferry or Culross and ...
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Eric Richards author of several well-known books on the Highland Clearances re-examines many examples of factorial behaviour from different parts o...
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Create your own farm in your garden with tips on growing, harvesting and eating your own produce
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All civilisations have faced the challenges of trading by sea: storms, bad weather, and the hazards of cliffs and other natural landmarks that thre...
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This is the story of the Clan MacGregor, the "Children of the Mist", the lawless brigands of the Highlands. Read of how they were persecuted and ha...
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Here is recounted the stirring history of the Clan MacPherson from its beginning in the mists of medieval Caledonian history down to the present ti...
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Canal expert Guthrie Hutton has produced a new and compact illustrated history of this canal that goes from Grangemouth to Bowling via Glasgow's Ma...
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