Scotland's legends, landscape, and history are captured in striking color photos and informative text. Each chapter is devoted to an area within the country, including a separate road map and information on key tourist locations. Lists places and sites suitable for children and the disabled. 10 full-color maps. Over 170 photos.

Scotland

Travel

Ramsay, Alex

Europe

Collins Celtic

Tartans are synonymous with Scotland and for many Scots, both at home and abroad, they are recognized and acknowledged as symbols of clan kinship. This book is abridged from Robert Bain's "The Clans and Tartans of Scotland" and contains over 100 of Scotland's most famous clans providing details of their crests, mottoes and often turbulent history. Also included are the correct tartans worn by the holder of a particular clan of a family name, a clan map of Scotland, and a helpful list of sources for those wishing to pursue their clan or family history further.

Clans and Tartans (Collins Gems)

History

Robert Bain

This pocket dictionary gives the derivations of over Scottish 1000 surnames plus their variants. The alphabetical entries give not only the meaning of each name, but also its history, showing how its form may have changed in the course of time and produced variants over the years and in different localities. The areas of Scotland where the name is chiefly to be found nowadays are listed, and the early bearers of many of the names are mentioned.

Scottish Surnames (Collins Pocket Reference)

david-dorward

Reference

The third edition incorporates texts which were previously available only in difficult-to-obtain form as well as corrections and emendations to the text by the critic and columnist Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson. It also includes newly-commissioned introductions to the poems, plays, stories and selected letters and journalism from such contributors as the biographer and critic Owen Dudley Edwards, and the Irish poet and scholar Declan Kiberd. The book retains the 1966 introduction by Oscar Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland, and now also has a new introduction by Merlin Holland, explaining the significance of the text, with his observations on the public interest of the biography of Wilde by Richard Ellman.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Biographies & Memoirs

Wilde, Óscar

Leaders & Notable People

This dictionary concentrates on modern everyday Scots. It contains English definitions for Scots vocabulary.

Scots Dictionary (Collins Gems)

HarperCollins

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Features the poetry of the national poet of Scotland, including "Tom O'Shanter", "To a Mouse", and "Auld Lang Syne". The anthology also includes an introduction to and brief chronology of Burns's life and text notes explaining his dialect.

Burns Anthology (Collins Gems)

Literature & Fiction

Burns, Robert

Poetry

This guide to Scottish country dancing is suitable for the novice as well as the more experienced dancer. It gives instructions to over 100 of the most common ceilidh dances, and provides explanations of the classic steps, techniques and dress.

Scottish Country Dancing (Collins Pocket Reference)

Politics & Social Sciences

James Carney

Social Sciences

This regiment-by-regiment survey traces the origins and history of Scotland's fighting men, from their organization in the 17th and 18th centuries through to their participation in the campaigns in the Falklands and the Gulf. This book looks beyond uniforms and military hardware to reveal the traditions, character and individuality of the regiments of the Scottish Division, past and present. For each regiment, the topics covered include badges and mottoes, tartans and clan affiliations, battle honours, Victoria Cross winners, music, toasts and allied and affiliated regiments.

The Scottish Regiments

Henderson, Diana M.

Scotland the Best!: The One True Guide

Irvine, Peter

The best hotels, restaurants and pubs--from the traditional Scottish to the most contemporary; where to shop and stop; the best places to go and what to see; from kids' places to nightclubs--this is the inside track.

Edinburgh the Best!: The One True Guide

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