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  • Second Man on the Rope

    Mountain Days with Davie

    by Ian R. Mitchell ...
    What are the rules of etiquette in a bothy full of strangers?How cold, exactly, can a Scottish summer get?And how many cans of beer can a man carry whilst fording a swollen river? Second Man on the Rope tackles all these questions and more, a celebrating Scotland's mountains come sun, sleet or snow, through the stories of a great climbing partnership. Ranging from the Cairngorms to Glencoe, from ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mountain Days and Bothy Nights

    by Dave Brown, Ian R. Mitchell ...
    Acknowledged as a classic of mountain writing, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills as Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan and Stumpy the Big Yin stalk hill and public house, evading gamekeepers and Royalty. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clydeside

    Red, Orange and Green

    by Ian R Mitchell ...
    Ian R. Mitchell takes the reader on an urban promenade along the Clyde and finds its character is created from far more than the remnants of shipbuilding. "Clydeside" relates stories of conflicts, people and communities, while incorporating present-day walks in these oft-forgotten areas, to allow the reader to fully appreciate the culture and history. Exploring more than just Glasgow itself, the ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aberdeen

    Beyond the Granite

    by Ian R Mitchell ...
    Ian R Mitchell recognises his hometown is an often underloved place, but in Aberdeen: Beyond the Granite he sets out an overwhelming case as to why this sentiment is thoroughly undeserved. An Aberdonian born and bred, Mitchell has lived in Glasgow for almost four decades. Returning to his roots, he delves into Aberdeen's rich and often unseen history and culture from an exile's perspective, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers

    by Ian R Mitchell ...
    Winner of the Outdoor Writers Guild Award for Excellence In this new book on pre-mountaineering ascents and near ascents in the Highlands, we have at last a work which does justice to those who lived and worked, travelled and fought in the Highlands before Walter Scott. PROF. BRUCE LENMAN Marvelous account of mountaineering's prehistory... as colourful as it is thought provoking - THE SCOTSMAN ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prelude to Everest

    Alexander Kellas, Himalayan Mountaineer

    by Ian R Mitchell, George Rodway ...
    Acclaimed hillwalking writers Ian R Mitchell and George Rodway tell the fascinating story of Aberdeen-born Alexander Kellas, and his contribution to mountaineering from the 20th century to the present day. Now a largely neglected figure, Kellas is the pioneer of high altitude physiology, his climbing routes still in evidence today. Follow Kellas' journey, which takes him from the Scottish ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Glasgow Mosaic

    by Ian R Mitchell ...
    With this book is completed a trilogy of works begun in 2005 with This City Now: Glasgow and its Working Class Past, and continuing with Clydeside; Red Orange and Green in 2009. The three books have all had similar aims in trying to raise the profile of forgotten or neglected areas and aspects of Glasgow and its history, in a small way trying to boost the esteem in which such places are held by ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past

    by Ian R Mitchell ...
    Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past sets out to retrieve the hidden architectural, cultural and historical riches of some of Glasgow's industrial and working-class districts. Many who enjoy the fruits of Glasgow's recent gentrification may be surprised and delighted by the gems which Ian Mitchell has uncovered beyond the usual haunts. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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    by Robert Crawford ...
    Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world, from Madrid and Barcelona, to Moscow and St. Petersburg, to Beijing and Shanghai, Scotland’s sparring metropolises just happen to be much smaller and closer together—like twin stars orbiting a common axis. Yet their size belies their world-historical importance as cultural and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Edinburgh Through Time

    by Liz Hanson ...
    Series series Through Time
    The unique profile of Edinburgh was born of a marriage between nature's sculpture and man's architecture. The epicentre is Castle Rock - a volcanic plug - which constantly draws the eye from all parts of the city. Sloping down from it is a jagged outline of impossibly high medieval tenements lining the Royal Mile which is punctuated at the foot of the tail of glacial debris by Holyrood Palace. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Little Book of Edinburgh

    by Geoff Holder ...
    The Little Book of Edinburgh is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts. Geoff Holder's new book contains historic and contemporary trivia on ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dundee: A Short History

    by Norman Watson ...
    The story of Dundee is both fascinating and dramatic. Now, in Dundee – A Short History, Norman Watson brings to life the people and events that shaped this great city from its origins and early development, through centuries of poverty and prosperity to the golden years of jute, jam and journalism and beyond.In this absorbing and comprehensive history, meet the women who hijacked the Reformation, ... Read more

    $7.19 USD