Researched and edited by Dr. John R. Lewis of Cults. Folding map showing all of the beats and their individual pools from the North Sea to Candacraig. S3. View More...
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... View More...
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... View More...
Stapled pamphlet, in Very Good condition, with slight rusty staple mark. Scarce Copy, pp12, with index. A collection of poems by Mrs B. E. Silcock, including Khaki, Air Force and Navy Blue; The Weighing of a 'Rural' Committee; Lumphanan WRI; Dee and Donside, Hess, Donald Gordon and more. Shelf 10. View More...
