The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. As he retraces the forgotten paths that shaped and were shaped by the lives of the now forgotten people who trod them, Moffat charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland.

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The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. As he retraces the forgotten paths that shaped and were shaped by the lives of the now forgotten people who trod them, Moffat charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland.

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The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads

The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads

by Alistair Moffat
The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads

The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads

by Alistair Moffat

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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. As he retraces the forgotten paths that shaped and were shaped by the lives of the now forgotten people who trod them, Moffat charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786891037
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication date: 07/06/2021
Edition description: Main
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Alistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He is an award-winning writer, historian and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television, former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and former Rector of the University of St Andrews. He is the founder of Borders Book Festival and Co-Chairman of The Great Tapestry of Scotland.

Table of Contents

The First Steps 1

Faltering Steps: The Wet Road 5

Step No Further: The Lost Road 9

1 The River Road: Loch Tay to the Firth of Tay 19

2 The Invasion Road: The Cheviot Hills to the Lammermuirs 57

3 The Road to Heaven: Earlsferry to St Andrews 109

4 The Great North Road: Berwick upon Tweed to Cockburnspath 147

5 The Road to Ruin: The Old Town, Edinburgh 173

6 The Green Roads: Glenelg into the Mountains 191

7 The Herring Road: Dunbar to Lauder 207

8 The Rail Road: Ballachulish to Connel 227

9 The Summer Roads 259

10 The Road Block: Stonehaven to the Edge of the Grampians 285

Envoi: The Snow Road 314

Further Steps 317

Acknowledgements 319

Index 321

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