The Book of the Bothy
English
By (author): Phoebe Smith
A guidebook celebrating the bothies of England, Scotland and Wales: a network of huts, cottages and shelters often in remote mountainous locations that are completely free to use. The author presents a selection of 26 of her favourite bothies, with notes on access, water, facilities, history and wildlife-spotting opportunities.
- Includes advice on how to use bothies and bothy etiquette
- Routes (with mapping) to all of the 26 bothies featured, plus suggestions for what to do when you get there (including nearby hills you might climb)
- A history of bothies
- Personal recollections of visits to the 26 bothies
- Taigh Seumas a' Ghlinne (Glen Coe), Ben Alder Cottage, Ruigh Aiteachain, Ryvoan, Shenavall, Warnscale Head, Greg's Hut and Nant Syddion
- The majority of bothies are in the Scottish Highlands, but the guide also includes bothies in Dumfries and Galloway, Northumberland, the Pennines, the Lake District, Snowdonia, Mid-Wales and the Brecon Beacons