Author: McConnochie, Alex & Wayte, Bryn.

Lochnagar.

By: McConnochie, Alex & Wayte, Bryn.

Price: £14.99

Publisher: Deeside Books 2014. 9781907813009 : 2014

Edition: 2nd Edition

Seller ID: 005921

ISBN-13: 9781907813009

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

New cloth-covered paperback book in mint condition. Pages v, 189, plus the advertisments. A replica of the 1891 first (and only) edition with all of the original illustrations and the map. There is a new introduction with a brief biography of McConnochie and also recommendations on which of the current Ordnance Survey maps are best suited to the area. McConnochie highlights the book with many tales and legends of both Lochnagar and the surrounding glens as well as describing the many ways of reaching the summit itself. Other anecdotes relate to illicit whisky distillation and smuggling as w...
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Ben Muich Dhui (Ben MacDhui, Mac Dhui) & His Neighbours: A Guide to the Cairngorm Mountains.

By: McConnochie, Alex Inkson & Wayte, Bryn.

Price: £12.99

Publisher: Deeside Books, 2013. 9781907813061 : 2013

Edition: New Edition

Seller ID: 1290

ISBN-13: 9781907813061

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

New cloth-covered paperback book in mint condition. New edition published by Deeside Books, pp 12, xii, 84, map to rear, index. Ben Muich Dhui and his Neighbours is one of the earliest and scarcest of Alex Inkson McConnochie's publications and its printing in 1885 makes it a forerunner of the guide books used by today's hillwalkers. This book outlines the different routes across the Cairngorms along with the best ways of obtaining access, as well as the author providing vivid descriptions of the local scenery. The sport of hillwalking was still in its infancy in the latter part of the 19th cen...
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Donside.

By: McConnochie, Alex Inkson & Wayte, Bryn.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Deeside Books, 2011. 9781907813023 : 2011

Edition: New Edition

Seller ID: 23

ISBN-13: 9781907813023

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

New cloth-covered paperback book in mint condition.Pages vi, 220, plus all of the original full page illustrations and the 3 maps. The version reproduced here is from the two shilling hardback first edition with its original pagination and advertisments, published in 1900 (the 1985 J.G. Bisset version adpoted the much smaller typeface used in the cheaper one shilling paper board covered edition published in 1901, with the consequent reduction in the number of pages to 134 and a different set of advertisments). McConnochie was an avid hillwalker and a competent local historian, and his guideb...
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Strathspey.

By: McConnochie, Alex. Inkson & Wayte, Bryn.

Price: £14.99

Publisher: Deeside Books, 2013. 9781907813054 : 2013

Edition: 2nd Edition

Seller ID: 831

ISBN-13: 9781907813054

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

New paperback with card covers that have a cloth veneer in order to retain the original character of the book as much as possible. In mint condition. Republished from the original edition of 1902, with a new introduction by Bryn Wayte of Deeside Books. Pp 181, with original full page illustrations and five maps, advertising and index. Number five in the North East Classics Series. Originally published in 1902, this scarce title by Alex Inkson McConnochie has been reproduced in its original form, including copies of all of the original illustrations and maps. It is the fifth volume in the Nor...
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Author: McConnochie, Alex & Wayte, Bryn.

Lochnagar.

Ben Muich Dhui (Ben MacDhui, Mac Dhui) & His Neighbours: A Guide to the Cairngorm Mountains.

Donside.

Strathspey.