Collection: Local Collection Non Fiction

Join Jack as he ranges across the Highlands and Islands, exploring the lonely moors and rugged peaks of Sutherland, the Rough Bounds, the Great Wilderness, Mull and Harris; remote places that would challenge the resolve and stamina of any hillwalker.

Lighthouses punctuate Scotland's coastline - a stoic presence on the edge of the landscape. In 'For the Safety of All', Donald S. Murray explores these lighthouses through history, storytelling, and the voices of the lightkeepers.

Field excursion guide detailing visits to: Crarae Gardens - chambered cairn; Arichonan - township; Kilmory Orb - township; Kilmichael Glassery; Ballymeanoch - henge and stone settings; Dunchraigaig cairn; Carnassarie - cairn and standing stone; Kilmartin - churchyard, crosses; Nether Largie South...

Brings together the 244 surviving documents issued by, or in the name of, all the Scottish bishops of the early thirteenth century, building on the previously-published twelfth-century Acta. Every Latin text is printed in full, preceded by an English summary and followed by an explanation of the ...

This multi-period site in Ardnadam Glen had been occupied by man intermittently through five millennia. It is not possible to estimate the length of each of the eight periods described owing to the scarcity of datable finds although the Early Neolithic and the Iron Age occupations are fixed appro...

In this unique publication, Anne Bronte's life and work are honoured through the eyes of two hundred artists, as part of the Anne Bronte 200 celebrations, in tandem with an art exhibition of the original works being held in Scarborough where she died and is buried. 200 artists, 200 pages, 200 yea...