| Description |
328 pages ; 24cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes, flyways and sea-roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. Alistair's travels along the hidden ways reveal not only the searing beauty and magic of the Scottish landscape, but open up a new means of understanding our past: in retracing the forgotten paths, he charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland through the unremembered lives who have moved through it."--Publisher's description. |
| Contents |
The first steps -- Faltering steps : the wet road -- Step no further : the lost road -- 1. The river road : Loch Tay to the Firth of Tay -- 2. The invasion road : the Cheviot hills to the Lammermuirs -- 3. The road to heaven : Earlsferry to St Andrews -- 4. The great north road : Berwick upon Tweed to Cockburnspath -- 5. The road to ruin : the Old Town, Edinburgh -- 6. The green roads : Glenelg into the mountains -- 7. The herring road : Dunbar to Lauder -- 8. The rail road : Ballachulish to Connel -- 9. The summer roads -- 10. The road block : Stonehaven to the edge of the Grampains -- Envoi : the snow road -- Further steps. |
| Subject |
Roads -- Scotland.
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Scotland -- History.
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Scotland -- Description and travel.
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Scotland. (OCoLC)fst01206715
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| Genre/Form |
Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01919983
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Travel writing.
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| ISBN |
9781786891013 |
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1786891018 |
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