A01=Alastair Scott
Author_Alastair Scott
Brown Book Group
Category1=Non-Fiction
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COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
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Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=195
IMPN=Sphere
ISBN13=9780751553185
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20130822
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Little
Scotland
SMM=33
Subject=Travel & Holiday
Travel
WG=328
WMM=129
Product details
- ISBN 9780751553185
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 328g
- Dimensions: 129 x 195 x 33mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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After ten years of wanderlust which took him to nearly seventy countries around the world, Alastair Scott decided it was time to make 'home' his destination. Resolving to explore Scotland and the Scottish people in as much depth and breadth as possible, the author drew up an itinerary which would take him from the outermost isle to the innermost city, sampling the experiences of modern Scotland in all their diversity. Encompassing issues of the land, eccentrics in castles, the state of the Gaidheal, homelessness in Edinburgh, and all the idiosyncrasies of history, development and decline in between, Scott's journey covered four thousand miles of island, mountain and lowland. The variety of place and circumstance was exceeded only by that of the characters encountered en route. The result is a detailed and engrossing portrait of contemporary Scotland, and of one man's rediscovery of his native land.
Alastair Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1954. He now lives with his wife, Sheena, in Edinburgh (with occasional bouts of vagrancy), working as a photographer, writer and broadcaster.
