The Finest Road in the World: The Story of Travel and Transport in the Scottish Highlands

by James Miller

Book Overview

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called 'killer' highways - stories abound about the horrors of travel in the Highlands and Islands, and have done for as far as the records go back.

James Miller tells the dramatic and sometimes surprisingly humorous story of travel and transport in the Highlands. Some of the figures in the story are familiar - General George Wade,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780274300
• ISBN13: 9781780274300
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Length: 320 Pages