Scottish Bothy Bible: The complete guide to Scotland s bothies and how to reach them

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Geoff Allan navigates you across burns and bogs, taking you to Viking longhouses, island hideaways and highland homesteads. With captivating histories, detailed route descriptions and practical hillcraft knowledge, this is your essential guide to wild adventure living. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Detailed information on the locations, approach routes, including alternative routes – on foot, by bike and kayak – with nine supporting maps. Even for the armchair enthusiast, the book is so well organized and presented (with excellent maps and indexes, too) that just by reading it you feel you are learning more about the real Scotland.

This first ever complete guide to the Scottish bothies reveals the country s unique and often hidden network of bothy cabins and mountain huts. Engaging travel writing documents the captivating history of each bothy and the adventurers who use them. MOUNTAIN BOTHY ASSOCIATION 10% of the proceeds from this book go to the MBA for the upkeep of their bothies. His engaging travel writing documents the fascinating history of each bothy and the adventurers who use them.Trained as a surveyor, he is a professional photographer and maintenance officer for an MBA bothy on the Isle of Rum.

The Scottish bothy bible is the first ever complete guide book to Scotland’s bothies, featuring full details on over 100 MBA bothies and more. With full maps and detailed information on the locations and approach routes – by canoe, foot and bicycle – plus a forward by legendary quadruple amputee mountaineer Jamie Andrew.The best bothies for Munros, beaches, seclusion, families and beginners, wildlife, romantic hideaways, wild and remote and stunning scenery. Trained as a surveyor, he is a professional photographer and joint maintenance office for an MBA bothy on the Isle of Rum . Importantly, a section is dedicated to the rules and bothy code, great for those unfamiliar with how to behave towards the bothy and others using it. Know what to take, where to get water and fuel, how to cross a river when in spate and what to do in an emergency. Scattered across Scotland’s most beautiful landscapes, these evocative abandoned crofts and farmsteads are free to stay in and offer a chance to experience the ultimate in wild adventure living.