Undiscovered Scotland

The books listed below whose texts appear on Undiscovered Scotland are long out of copyright. What sets the Undiscovered Scotland version apart in each case is the cross linking between the text of each book and features elsewhere on the site, allowing the reader to explore beyond the text itself, finding out more about the places and people mentioned.

Some books listed here contain fascinating sections about Scotland within a wider work. Here only the Scottish section(s) are included. These books are *starred in the list below.

Books about Travel

• From John o' Groat's to Lands End by Robert Naylor and John Naylor* (1916)

• British Highways and Byways From a Motor Car, by Thomas D. Murphy* (1908)

• Guide to the East Neuk of Fife, by D Hay Fleming (1886)

• Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1879)

• A Summer in Skye, by Alexander Smith (1865)

• Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A.D.1803, by Dorothy Wordsworth (1874)

• The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by James Boswell (1786)

• A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, by Samuel Johnson (1775)

• A Tour Thro' the whole island of Great Britain, by Daniel Defoe* (1726)

• A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, by Martin Martin (1703)

• A Late Voyage to St Kilda, by Martin Martin (1698)

• A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland Called Hybrides, by Sir Donald Monro (1549)

History

• A Short History of Scotland, by Andrew Lang (1911)

• The Norwegian Account of Haco's Expedition Against Scotland, 1263, translated by the Rev James Johnstone (1782)

Novels

• Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

• Catriona, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)