Picturesque Scotland
Its romantic scenes and historical associations in lay and legend, song and story
by Francis Watt M.A. and the Rev. Andrew Carter M.A.
Note: This book has generated more emails than any other book on the site. All were most positive about it and I think we all enjoyed it as each of the 114 chapters were posted up on the site.

Should you enjoy this book we'd also recommend the Scottish Chiefs which is an historical novel mainly about William Wallace but also of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.

Another book that got an excellent response from our visitors is A Doctor of the Old School which is an account of a Doctor in Scotland.

And finally we'd also recommend just one more book A Summer in Skye around the 1800's in which you'll read about the place and the people and much else besides.

You can read lots of other books on our page at Scottish Books Online.

Scottish History

Scotland - A Concise History
Our thanks to the author, James Halliday, for letting us publish his excellent concise history of Scotland.

The History of Scotland
In 9 volumes by Patrick Fraser Tytler. Published in 1828 and recognised as one of the very best historical accounts of Scotland.
 

• Title Page
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Colour Plates and Wood Engravings
• Scotland
• "Edina, Scotia's Darling Seat"
• Edinburgh - A Walk Along Princess Street
• The Castle of Edinburgh
• From Castle to Palace
• Holyrood
• The Men of Edinburgh
• Heights Around Edinburgh
• Around and About Edinburgh
• Roslin and Hawthornden
• The Scene and Story of the Gentle Shepherd
• A Typical Scotch Town
• Round and Over Traprain Law
• The River Tyne
• Tantallon
• Dunbar and its Battle
• Lammermoors
• A Tale of the Lammermoors
• The Merse
• By the Tweed - Berwick
• The Story of Red Hall
• By the Tweed to Kelso
• Jedburgh and its Legend
• By the Tweed once more - Dryburgh and Meltose
• Abbotsford and Sir Walter
• Yarrow
• A Legend of Elibank
• Peedbles and its Neighbourhood
• Linlithgow and its Associations
• The Battlefields of Stirlingshire
• Charles Edward Stewart and His Race
• Stirling and its Castle
• Dunfermline Toun
• St. Andrew's and the Legend of its Origin
• Some Places and Traditions of Fifeshire
• A Trip along the shores of Fife
• Loch Leven and its Islands
• The Vale of Ettrick
• The Land of Burns - Nature of his Poems
• The Land of Burns - Scenes of his early life in Ayr
• The Land of Burns - Scenes of some of His Great Poems
• The Land of Burns - Coilsfield and Ballochmyle
• The Land of Burns - Ellisland
• The Land of Burns - The Last Years in Dumfries
• Two Stories of Ayrshire Castles
• The Covenanters - Their Character
• The Covenanters - Their History
• Drumclog
• The Martyrs of the Covenant
• The Fair City of the Highlands
• Scone, and the Stone of Destiny
• The Trosachs
• Rob Roy and the Clan MacGregor
• Loch Lomond
• The Castle Rock of Dumbarton
• Killin, Loch Tay and Kenmore
• Dunkeld
• The Field of Killiecrankie
• Athole and Bruar Water
• The Isle of Rest
• Fair Inverness
• Culloden Moor and its Famous Battle
• The Wanderings of Prince Charles
• The Caledonian Canal
• Ben Nevis
• Stand Fast, Craig Elachie!
• Northern Traditions and Superstitions
• Fairy Tales
• The Wilds of Sutherland
• A "Land of Brown Heath"
• Some Randon Notes on the Orkney Islands
• Ultima Thule (Shetland)
• Bonnie Dundee
• The Tay Bridge
• Broughty Ferry and Broughty Castle
• Arbroath and its Abbey
• The "Bonnie House O' Airley"
• The Bell Rock
• Brechin
• Finhaven and its Tradition
• Forfar
• Glamis Castle and King Malcolm
• The Proud House of Edzell
• The Forts of Caterthun
• Gloomy Glenesk
• On to Ballater
• In the Braemar Highlands
• Dark Loch na-Gar
• Ballater to Braemar
• On the way by Aboyne to Aberdeen
• Aberdeen
• A Swake within the Sea
• The Bullers of Buchan
• To the Garioch and the "Sair Field of Harlaw"
• A Northern Cathedral City
• The Worthies of Banff
• Glasgow
• Glasgow College
• The Clyde
• The Home of Livingston
• Iona
• The Island of Staffa
• Two Days in Arran
• Ailsa Craig and the Bass
• In the Land of Lorne
• Loch Etive
• Glencoe and its Memories
• Some things worth a Word in Argyle
• The Great Argyle
• In the Island of Skye
• The Quiraing on Skye
• Loch Coruisk "That Dread Lake"
• St. Kilda - "That Far Island of the West"

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