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Recommended reading. --Dumfries & Galloway Standard
Ronald Turnbull captures the highs and lows of the journey with beautiful photographs and a fascinating text that will delight those who have completed the walk and inspire those who want to. --Scotland on Sunday
Ronald Turnbull captures the highs and lows of the journey with beautiful photographs and a fascinating text that will delight those who have completed the walk and inspire those who want to. --Scotland on Sunday
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The 95-mile West Highland Way was thought out in the 1960s and opened in 1980. But in a sense it has always been here. Clansmen and cattle thieves, redcoats and Sir Walter Scott in quest of a fictional character he called Rob Roy - as well as Rob Roy himself, an honourable cattle thief - have travelled this route between the Lowlands and Lochaber. This book traces the journey of glens and low passes, under the crags and high grassy sides of seven of Scotland's hill ranges: from the Arrochar Alps of Loch Lomond to the Black Mount of Argyll, the Mamores and Ben Nevis. Along the way we see wild goats, the red deer of Rannoch, the golden eagle, and the meadow pipit. We enjoy purple orchids, wild heather and golden birches and walk through fields of yellow asphodel. Geologically, the West Highland Way is an outing from the Old Red Sandstone of the so-called Lowland Valley, through the grey schists of the Southern Highlands, to the great volcanic cauldron of Glen Coe. As it unfolds underfoot, it's an ever-changing vista of heather and oakwood, of lochside and riverside - but also a journey through the whole life and history of Celtic Scotland.
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fabulous book. really shows how it feels to walk the way. a marvellous book to look at in preparation and a great souvenir for afterwards!
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Outstanding photos,
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Whether you are deciding whether to walk the west highland way or need a bound set of memories after you have walked it, this book has outstanding photographs and plenty of them.
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