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by W.H. Murray (Author)
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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Baton Wicks Publications; New edition edition (10 Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1898573239
  • ISBN-13: 978-1898573234
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.8 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Mountaineering in Scotland and Undiscovered Scotland are two of the most popular British climbing books. This is an omnibus edition of the two books, published a ye ar after Murray''s death. '

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE best book about Scottish climbing, 2 Feb 2002
Bill Murray's 'Mountaineering in Scotland' has a well-known mythology of its own, having been written on toilet paper in a PoW camp. Now 55 years old, this book stands in the same relationship to Scottish climbing and to Scottish climbing literature as Leslie Stephen's 'Playground of Europe' does to alpine climbing and literature: it provides both the style and tone for the activity, and the yardstick for all subsequent books about it. The climbs Murray describes, even his fierce pioneering winter climbs of the 1930s, may now simply be test pieces for climbers at an early stage of their apprenticeship, while the expression may seem formal and a bit dated. Life moves on.

But the quality of the writing, both in describing climbing action and in evoking landscape across the diversity of Scotland's mountains - on rock or ice, by day and by moonlight, in spring sunshine or in winter blizzard - carry the reader off into a uniquely exalted world of intense mountain experience. All Scottish climbers should own this book, even if it is the only book they own; so should anyone with an interest in the highest quality writing about mountains and mountain landscape.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration and Influence, 25 Mar 2009
By D. Elliott (Ulverston, Cumbria) - See all my reviews
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His exploits in the 1930s confirm author W H Murray as a daring and innovative climber who regained the momentum of early Scottish mountaineering activity lost in the upheaval of the First World War. He has become known as Bill Murray, yet to my generation starting climbing in the 1950s he will always be W. H. Murray. This omnibus edition contains two classics from amongst the huge volume of mountaineering literature - `Mountaineering in Scotland', published in 1947 after Murray's return from the war, and `Undiscovered Scotland' published in 1951. W H Murray surpasses his contemporaries as a writer with a tremendous talent for thrilling his readers with action tales and delighting them with descriptions of mountain beauty and grandeur. His skill in capturing exactly and unerringly the full flavour of Scottish mountaineering, particularly in winter, sets these books apart in terms of impact - both are inspirational, and both influenced post-Second World War climbers.

All readers should revel in W H Murray's authoritative accounts as he relives experiences and reveals them as intensely alive, but when it comes to passionate prose and philosophizing they tend to be divided. He has been accused of romanticism and religious zeal by some critics, but to me as an aficionado he writes with sincerity and feeling. I applaud and respect W H Murray for his attempts to move on from captivating views of mountain landscapes or gripping accounts of climbing, to lead into compelling views or mesmerizing exposition on the meaning of life. In `Mountaineering in Scotland' he confirms his belief that "our understanding of mountains is broadened and deepened toward the understanding of all things created". Readers wishing to pursue this aspect further are directed to W H Murray's autobiography - `The Evidence of Things Not Seen', but for those satisfied with worldly matters there are 23 chapters in `Mountaineering in Scotland' and 22 chapters in `Undiscovered Scotland' - each a magnificent mountain commentary in its own right - this superb-value omnibus edition should continue to inspire and influence generations to come.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourite climbing books, 5 Mar 2008
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One of the best books about the Scottish mountains by an early pioneer. Written in a wonderfully understated stiff upper lip style, supposedly on toilet paper in a POW camp from memory.
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