Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers

by Ian R. Mitchell

Overview

This work tells the story of explorations and ascents in the Scottish Highlands in the days before mountaineering became a popular sport - when Jacobites, bandits, poachers and illicit distillers traditionally used the mountains as sanctuary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908373298
Publisher:	Luath Press Limited
Publication date:	11/25/2014
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Originally from Aberdeen, Ian Mitchell has lived in Glasgow for the past thirty years. Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for A View from the Ridge, historian Ian R. Mitchell gave up teaching to write full time. Ian's background in historical research, coupled with indepth personal experience of East Berlin in the 1980s, allows him to create an authentic historical novel. His previous exercise in historical fiction, Mountain Outlaw, was described by the renowned historian E J Hobsbawm as 'fascinating...a fine piece of work...more support for my ideas on social banditry.'