The Hidden Ways : Scotland's Forgotten Roads.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moffat, Alistair.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moffat, Alistair, 1950---Travel--Scotland.

Moffat, Alistair.

Scotland--History.

Scotland--Description and travel.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Hidden Ways

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2017.

Summary:

"In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes, flyways and sea-roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. Alistair's travels along the hidden ways reveal not only the searing beauty and magic of the Scottish landscape, but open up a new means of understanding our past: in retracing the forgotten paths, he charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland through the unremembered lives who have moved through it."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Bio

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

The First Steps

Faltering Steps: The Wet Road

Step No Further: The Lost Road

1. The River Road: Loch Tay to the Firth of Tay

2. The Invasion Road: The Cheviot Hills to the Lammermuirs

3. The Road to Heaven: Earlsferry to St Andrews

4. The Great North Road: Berwick upon Tweed to Cockburnspath

5. The Road to Ruin: The Old Town, Edinburgh

6. The Green Roads: Glenelg into the Mountains

7. The Herring Road: Dunbar to Lauder

8. The Rail Road: Ballachulish to Connel

9. The Summer Roads

10. The Road Block: Stonehaven to the Edge of the Grampians

Envoi: The Snow Road

Further Steps

Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78689-102-6

OCLC:

1002848196