At the age of twenty-one, John Prebble set out to "discover" Scotland, and just as Sir Walter Scott had been enthralled by this "fiercely distinctive land", so Prebble's imagination was similarly enchanted and challenged.
'The Lion In The North' and 'Culloden', amongst others, are part of that lifelong fascination, but John Prebble's 'Scotland' is the direct result of the retracing of earlier steps, drawing upon a rich store of social history, anecdote, folklore and literature, to conduct you through the Highlands, Isles and Borders.
