Biography & Travel Writing

Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the...

This is the story of Duncan Napier who founded Edinburgh's herbalist shop in 1860....

Margaret Fay Shaw’s life spans a century of change. Orphaned at 11 she left home and...

Angus MacLellan was regarded throughout his own lifetime as one of Scotland's finest...

John Gregorson Campbell (1834-91) was one of the most outstanding folklorists working...

This is the first biography of linen manufacturer William Sandeman (1722-1790), a...

The Gaelic pharmacy was rich, the sources of which lay almost entirely in nature and...

The discovery of a long-forgotten physic garden and the restoration of an old weathered...

In 'Hebridean Sharker' Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter...

In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner...

From conducting farm animal caesarean sections in the early hours to missing family...

Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a...