A Scotsman Returns: Travels with Thomas Telford in the Highlands and Islands

This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834), and a modern travelogue that revisits the places in the Highlands and Islands where he worked over a period of 20 years. Scotland was provided with desperately-needed civil infrastructure - nearly 1000 miles of roads, 1200 bridges, many harbours, and the monumental Caledonian Canal.

Telford's programme of work was one of the greatest sustained efforts by any individual in ...