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On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands (On the Trail of) (Paperback)

by Ian Mitchell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Luath Press Ltd (1 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0946487790
  • ISBN-13: 978-0946487790
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.4 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 390,459 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Part of a series of guides looking at key figures and themes, this work follows the trail of Queen Victoria on her numerous visits to the Highlands, and contains photographs from the Washington Wilson collection. It provides a historical biography as well as a contemporary travel guide book.


About the Author

Ian R Mitchell is the author of several Luath Press titles in which his love and knowledge of the hills and mountains of Scotland are clearly evident. His books include Scotlands Mountains Before the Mountaineers, and, with Dave Brown, the oft-reprinted classic of mountain writing, Mountain Days and Bothy Nights.

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2.0 out of 5 stars an irritating volume, 8 Jan 2001
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I got this for Christmas as I am an admirer of both Queen Victoria and Scotland. I abandoned the book after page 53 and skimmed the rest. As a travel guide the book works reasonably well - the author provides good walks with OS map references and what to look out for, what to see, handy tips to get the most of the area etc. It's a pity about the second aspect of the work- I wonder why Ian Mitchell chose to write the book when he has so little regard for its subject and her life and times. In the introduction Mitchell readily admits he is a Marxist, and his politics come through right from the start. Not only does he prove to be anti- Victoria, he is also anti- establishment, anti-English, in fact, one feels he is anti -everything but himself. He commits the age old mistake of comparing modern day mores with the way of life of the age of Victoria and it becomes very tedious. He calls Victoria "Vikki" - mildly amusing at first but then it just becomes irritating and silly. A more objective viewpoint would have been preferred. Mitchell laments the 'damage' Balmorality has had on Scotland, and Deeside in particular. I can't help thinking that Scotland would have been in more of a pickle had Victoria and her upper class contemporaries NOT poured money into the area. Instead of harping on about the amount of horses needed for one of Victoria's little expeditions, Mitchell might like to calculate how much employment, resources and prosperity Victoria and the gentry actually provided in the second half of the 19th century.
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