Part of a series of guides looking at key figures and themes, this work follows the trail of Queen Victoria on her numerous visits to the Highlands, and contains photographs from the Washington Wilson collection. It provides a historical biography as well as a contemporary travel guide book.
Ian R Mitchell is the author of several Luath Press titles in which his love and knowledge of the hills and mountains of Scotland are clearly evident. His books include Scotlands Mountains Before the Mountaineers, and, with Dave Brown, the oft-reprinted classic of mountain writing, Mountain Days and Bothy Nights.