The Hebrides
The Hebrides -- "the Isles on the Edge of the Sea" are comprised of an archipelago of more than 500 islands curving for nearly 240 miles along the Atlantic coast of Scotland. W. H. Murray has written what is probably the most comprehensive book about the Hebrides. He is a Scot who has not only a passionate love for his native land and an extraordinary knowledge and understanding of it but is a mountaineer, a sailor, an ornithologist, a keen botanist and geologist and a novelist as well. It is his skill as a writer which enables him to give such graphic descriptions of the Islands, whose beauty and grandeur has so often baffled descriptions by those without the power of words. The author gives a wealth of practical information as to which season one should visit which islands, the state and frequency of ferries, the shifts of population and changes in occupation. The appendices give valuable notes on history and pronunciation and there a valuable bibliography. There are fourteen maps and sixteen pages of photographs of the islands
Print Book, English, 1966
Heinemann, London, 1966