IMMEASURABLE WILDS

An illuminating and entertaining account of how the Far North of Scotland was revealed through early travellers in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It recounts the bolder few who made it to the far north-west and delights in choice anecdotes from their accounts, touching on a number of disciplines: cartography, early geology and botany. But above all, it gives a picture of this unknown region, as it seemed to those exploring it, an area of astonishing beauty, with inhabitants that showed notable warmth and generosity in spite of their poverty.