READING GUIDE HIKING SCOTLAND's ORKNEY & SHETLAND ISLANDS Here Is a Selection of Recommended Books Prepared for Your Tour

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SUGGESTED READING GUIDE HIKING SCOTLAND'S ORKNEY & SHETLAND ISLANDS Here is a selection of recommended books prepared for your tour. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164 to order these books from Longitude, a specialty mail-order book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive selection of books for your trip, go directly to reading.longitudebooks.com/N924298.

RECOMMENDED PACKAGE These four items are available as a set for $64 including shipping, 15% off the retail price (Item EXSCT106). Any additional books ordered will be shipped free of charge.

MacLean, Fitzroy, and Magnus Linklater (Contributor). Scotland, A Concise History. Thames & Hudson, 2012. This richly illustrated survey brings Scottish history up to the present through its romantic figures and bloody battles. With 250 well-integrated illustrations, this revised 4th edition includes a newly added chapter on Scotland’s place in the 21st century. (PAPER, 248 Pp., $19.95, Item SCT15)

Edwards, Paul, and Hermann Palssom. Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney. Penguin, 1981. A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the 9th century. (PAPER, 253 Pp., $16, Item VIK07)

Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet Scotland's Highlands & Islands. Footprint Handbooks, 2012. This handy guide in the popular series covers the Hebrides, Shetland, Orkney and other islands, celebrated and remote, throughout Scotland. With 53 maps and terrific background information. (PAPER, 383 Pp., $20.99, Item SCT62)

HEMA Maps. Great Britain and Ireland Map. Hema, 2005. A nicely detailed map at a scale of 1:750,000. (MAP, $10.95, Item GBR31)

MAPS & GUIDEBOOKS

Eyewitness Guides. Eyewitness Guide Scotland. DK Publishing, 2012. This compact, illustrated travel guide features color photography, excellent maps and a region-by-region synopsis of Scotland's attractions. (PAPER, 240 Pp., $25, Item SCT40)

Humphreys, Rob. Rough Guide Scottish Highlands and Islands. Rough Guides, 2011. A comprehensive guide in the hip, literate and very informative Rough Guide style. It's divided cleanly between practical information and illuminating background on culture and history. (PAPER, 616 Pp., $19.99, Item SCT132)

Michelin Travel Publications. Scotland Map M 501. Michelin Travel Publications, 2012. A clear, colorful road map at a scale of 1:400,000. (MAP, $11.95, Item SCT12) Summers, Gilbert. Fodor's Exploring Scotland. Fodor’s, 2007. With its many photographs, detailed descriptions and practical information, this compact guide covers Scotland in style. (PAPER, 288 Pp.) Out of print, but worth looking for. ISBN-13: 978-1400017720.

HISTORY & CULTURE

Ascherson, Neal. Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004. Ascherson writes with verve and insight on the centuries-old impulse toward nationhood in Scotland in this absorbing portrait, interweaving history with archaeology, myth and his own interviews and travels. (PAPER, 240 Pp., $27, Item SCT66)

Ferguson, Robert. The Vikings, A History. Viking, 2010. A substantial history of Nordic plunder and trade. (PAPER, 464 Pp., $18, Item VIK32)

Fisher, Andrew. A Traveller's History of Scotland. Interlink Publishing Group, 2009. This brief history of Scotland through the 1990s is wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology, a list of monarchs and a historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries. (PAPER, 256 Pp., $14.95, Item GBR40)

Fitzhugh, William (Editor), and Elisabeth Ward (Editor). Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. An extensively illustrated volume of Viking culture, history and exploration that focuses especially on voyages to North America. Published in conjunction with a Smithsonian exhibit, it features essays and 400 color photographs. (PAPER, 432 Pp., $34.95, Item VIK11)

Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World. Crown, 2002. Herman argues convincingly in this bestseller that many of the greatest political, intellectual and technological innovations of the 18th and 19th centuries came from the Scots. (PAPER, 472 Pp., $16, Item SCT65)

Wickham-Jones, Caroline. Orkney, A Historical Guide. Birlinn Ltd., 2011. A revised edition of this classic guide to the well-preserved archaeology of the island. (PAPER, 234 Pp.) Not available through Longitude Books, but worth looking for elsewhere. ISBN-13: 978-1780270012.

LITERATURE

Brown, George MacKay. Winter Tales. Birlinn Ltd., 2006. These 12 short stories capture the characters and atmosphere of Brown's native Orkney. (PAPER, 214 Pp.) Not available through Longitude Books, but worth looking for elsewhere. ISBN-13: 978-1904598879.

Cleeves, Ann. Blue Lightning. St. Martins, 2011. In the fourth book of Cleeves' critically acclaimed series set in the Shetland Islands, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez must solve the mystery of a dead woman whose body is found near a bird observatory. (PAPER, 356 Pp., $14.99, Item SCT187)

Cleeves, Ann. Red Bones. St. Martins, 2010. The third book in the Shetland Island quartet of murder mysteries. With a claustrophobia-inducing mist appearing over the islands and human remains found by a local archaeologist, Detective Inspector Perez knows the truth: the killer is one of the townspeople. (PAPER, 391 Pp., $15.99, Item SCT157)

Cleeves, Ann. White Nights. St. Martins, 2009. Inspector Perez finds a murdered man, last seen causing an amnesia-induced ruckus at an art gallery, in this second novel in the Shetland Island Quartet. (PAPER, 400 Pp., $15.99, Item SCT137) Cleeves, Ann. Raven Black. St. Martin's Press, 2008. In this award-winning debut, Inspector Perez investigates multiple murders in the remote Shetland Islands. Winner of Britain's coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. (PAPER, 384 Pp., $14.99, Item GBR700)

Livesey, Margot. The Flight of Gemma Hardy. HarperCollins, 2012. Inspired by Jane Eyre, Livesey's 6th novel traces the hardships and fate of a feisty young women who travels to the remote Orkney to become an au pair at Blackbird Hall. The brilliant evocation of 1960s Scotland draws on Livesey's childhood in the Highlands. (PAPER, 447 Pp., $15.99, Item SCT181)

Scott, Walter, Sir. The Pirate. Aa Balkema, 2001. Set on the southern tip of the main island of the Shetland Islands, this swashbuckling romance is based loosely on the adventures of infamous pirate John Gow. Originally published in 1822. (PAPER, 600 Pp., $19.99, Item GRB149)

NATURAL HISTORY & FIELD GUIDES

Soper, Tony, and Dan Powell (Illustrator). Wildlife of the North Atlantic, A Cruising Guide. Bradt Publications, 2008. This compact, illustrated guide covers the many petrels, ducks, gulls, terns and other seabirds, as well as the rich abundance of life existing under the waves, that populate the vast Atlantic region from the British Isles to Newfoundland. (PAPER, 176 Pp., $25.99, Item ATL26)

Svensson, Lars. Birds of Europe. Princeton University Press, 2010. Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second edition of this exquisite guide has been updated with revised text and maps. (PAPER, 416 Pp., $29.95, Item FG47)

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BIOGRAPHY:

Repcheck, Jack. The Man Who Found Time. Perseus, 2009. Repcheck brings Scottish geologist James Hutton (1726-97) to the fore in this tale of the man and of Scottish Enlightenment. Hutton's ideas about the age of the Earth and embrace of gradualism was taken up by Charles Lyle in his ground-breaking Principles of Geology. (PAPER, 17 Pp., $16.95, Item SCT190)

WEBSITES:

• Shetland Amenity Trust: o Geopark Shetland: http://www.shetlandamenity.org/geopark-shetland o Read more about Shetland's geology on the Shetland Landscapes website o Download Shetland Amenity Trust’s interpretive leaflets on the islands’ geography and cultural/natural heritage: http://www.shetland- heritage.co.uk/download-leaflets • Orkney Islands’ Information & Travel Guide: http://view.vcab.com/?vcabid=geaSeanrpSchjecla • Heritage of the Orkney Islands: http://www.orkneyjar.com/ • Visit Scotland’s Orkney Page: http://www.visitorkney.com/ • Orkney.com: http://www.orkney.com/culture • Scottish Geology: http://www.scottishgeology.com/ • The Iapetus Ocean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Ocean

MAP:

Ordnance Survey. Northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland (OS Travel Map - Road Map). Ordnance Survey, D edition, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0319230879. From Amazon.com: “This route planning map...[at] 1:250,000 scale (1 inch to 4 miles)…show[s] elevation with contour lines and relief shading. Includes roads, railways, natural features, elevation points, campsites, parks, historic sights, and recreation areas.” Not available through Longitude Books, but worth looking for online.