Canoeing in Scotland Books

This guide is aimed at those looking for calmer waters ... rivers, canals, inland lochs and sheltered sea lochs. Routes described cater for all tastes, from those seeking an idyllic afternoon's paddle to those looking for a multi-day canoe-camping expedition. The guide follows a similar format to the acclaimed Scottish White Water guide. It uses thumb guides and simple maps to provide instant information and backs it up with detailed text. It is easy to navigate, and colour photos provide a flavour of the experiences to be had.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of Scottish white water, and the 2nd edition of the white water guide. One of the most notable achievements of the first edition is that it inspired many people to get out there, get off the beaten track and paddle something new. In an age where park and play is becoming ever more popular, it's been great to see paddlers once again seeking out the wilderness experience that for me is such an important part of what makes paddling special. Published in 2001, we had no idea that the 1st edition would sell out so quickly. So many thanks to everyone who bought a copy and helped raise money for the access fund, and also to everyone who wrote in with corrections, comments, suggestions and new descriptions for the 2nd edition. Once again, all proceeds from this guide will go towards the SCA access fund, and if you bought direct from the SCA, even more of your money will go towards promoting and improving access in Scotland. In this edition, we have tried to give more information on all those tantalising runs just mentioned last time round. We have also included 2 completely new sections and a total of 42 new rivers. So why not push the boundaries, go somewhere new and discover what those less well-known runs have to offer. For those who like the unknown, there's still more out there waiting to be explored, so it's not too late to make your mark and see your name in print next time around! The 2nd edition has also given us a chance to update paddlers on the access legislation that came into force in Scotland in the autumn of 2004, to tell you more about the threat that our wonderful rivers face from new hydro-electric developments and to let you know about the Water Levels Website developed by the SCA to help paddlers find out which rivers are at a good level. I hope you enjoy this guidebook and that, like its predecessor, it will inspire you to try new things, go new places and come back full of the wonder of Scottish white water.

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So here it is at last, the long awaited guide to Scottish white water, written by paddlers for paddlers. Scottish Whitewater opens the door to a host of adventures, epics and fun days on the river. Here you will find descriptions to both well-known classics and little known gems. Covering the length and breadth of Scotland and providing something for everyone, whatever the conditions. Whether you are a white water novice or an out and out hair boater, you need this book. With maps, pictures and first hand accounts, here is a guide that captures something of the spirit of Scottish white water. The proceeds of the sale of this book will go towards protecting and enhancing access to the rivers that we all enjoy.

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This is an account of a canoe journey from Bowling to Kyle of Lochalsh with numerous stops along the way, made by Alastair Dunnett and Seumas Adam. The book recounts how they spent a heady late autumn in the early 1930s meandering up the West Coast of Scotland.

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Eddy has chosen his favourite twenty-five inland touring routes and described them in loving detail. The routes are beautifully illustrated with numerous colour photos and specially commissioned maps. The selected routes are suitable for open canoes, sit-on-tops and touring kayaks. Many of them are multi-day trips that can be tackled as a single voyage or a series of day trips. Great variety is provided, the journeys taking place on inland lochs, sheltered sea lochs and rivers of up to Grade 2. This is a wonderful book for planning, dreaming of future voyages, or sharing your experiences with non-paddling friends.

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At last, here it is ... Scotland's first guidebook for sea kayakers wishing to explore its amazing coastline and magical islands. It brings together a selection of fifty great sea voyages around the mainland of Scotland, from the Mull of Galloway in the SW to St Abb's Head on the east coast, as well as voyages in the Western Isles, ranging from day trips to three day journeys. Illustrated with superb colour photographs and useful maps throughout, it is a practical guide to help you select and plan trips. It will provide inspiration for future voyages and a souvenir of journeys undertaken. As well as providing essential information on where to start and finish, distances, times and tidal information, the book does much to stimulate and inform our interest in the environment we are passing through. It is full of facts and anecdotes about local history, geology, scenery, seabirds and sea mammals. A fascinating read and an inspirational book.

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This is a fantastic book for anyone, whether you're a kayaker or not.

Brian Wilson appears to be a natural author - it was his first book. It reads fluidly and quite poeticly. It's a real page-turner.

He writes from the heart and very honestly. The book covers an amazing adventure, from the initial idea right through to the end. During his journey around the coast of Scotland he experiences intense highs and lows in the course of his adventure. Blissful moments through to depression and near-death!

The book also gives you interesting snap-shots of local folklore and history which is hard to find elsewhere. He gives his own thoughts on the environment and our treatment of it.

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There is a tremendous range of canoeing sites throughout Scotland ranging from calm inland lochs to rough sea lochs and smooth flowing rivers to raging torents and rapids. Wherever you do you your canoeing in Scotland you can be certain you will be surrounded by beautiful scenery and clear, clean water.

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Cycling in Perthshire

Highland Perthshire is a fantastic area to cycle in with such a variance of scenery and multiple cycle tracks, forest tracks and quiet roads. Cycle as a family, a group on your own or with just a few friends. There is a wide range of accommodation available for tourists that participate in the "Cyclists Welcome" scheme. They provide additional services to assist the cyclist and their specific needs.

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Cycling in Scotland Books - By Bicycle in Scotland (Travellers' Tales S.)

By Bicycle in Scotland captures the timeless feel of leisurely cycle touring on some of Scotland's half forgotten roads and upland tracks. This thoroughly well researched and written book has been reissued due to popular demand.

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Cycling in Scotland Books - 101 Mountain Bike Routes in Scotland

Features detailed descriptions of mountain-bike routes from all over Scotland, chosen for variety, interest for all abilities and for scenery. Maps and photographs are accompanied by advice on the terrain and any special equipment required.

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Cycling in Scotland Books - 101 Bike Routes in Scotland

This cycling guide covers the whole of Scotland, from the Orkney Islands to Dumfries and Galloway. It contains a variety of routes including mountain bike courses, quiet road routes and rides for children. It explores both popular and less well-known areas and includes many mountain bike routes previously unpublished in book form. It also provides instructions for the new bike paths in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

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Cycling in Scotland Books - The Ultimate Scottish Cycling Book

This volume deals with cycle-touring in Scotland. Much more than just a set of directions, the author's own experience on each route is described in an entertaining narrative, and detailed route information is featured to allow readers to follow the routes for themselves. The commentary accompanying every route in this book should inspire readers to set off and get to know Scotland both on and off the beaten track. Through following any of these routes, cyclists will encounter events and places that have played an important but lesser-known role in the bigger Scottish picture. The routes take in everything one would expect from a holiday in Scotland but reveal unexpected little-known gems in addition. SUSTRANS have filled in crucial gaps in the quiet roads with dedicated cycle paths and the awareness amongst the tourist industry of the needs of cyclists has never been higher. Every aspect of travelling with a bike is covered and each route is carefully constructed to make the cyclist feel safe and remove the need for expensive and inconvenient car hire. It features nine of the best routes that cyclists of any level will find possible and enjoyable.

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Cycling in Scotland Books - Flying Scotsman: Cycling to Triumph Through My Darkest Hours

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Cycling in Scotland Books - Scotland: The National Cycle Network (National Cycle Network Route)

Unveiled in the year 2000, the National Cycle Network currently provides more than 7000 miles of cycling routes throughout Britain, with the figure expected to rise to 10,000 miles by 2005. Harry Henniker's book, covering the Scottish part of the National Cycle Network, is a comprehensive guide to the many routes to be explored. Integrated in colour throughout with clear, user-friendly maps and route trajectories, it provides cyclists with advice on what to take on particular rides, the best places to stay and the sights that must be seen. Whether using the Network for a cycling holiday, a day trip, or as an alternative route to work, all the information cyclists will ever need is contained within these pages. "Scotland: the National Cycle Network" has guides to over 50 routes across mainland Scotland, with each chapter covering a different region. The areas covered include Edinburgh-Carlisle, Glasgow-Inverness, Aberdeen-Edinburgh, Inverness-John O'Groats and Glasgow-Carlisle.

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Cycling in Scotland Books - The Isles and Highlands of Western Scotland: Island Hopping Bike Adventures

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Cycling in Scotland Books - Mountainbike Scotland: The Highlands v. 1

This is a mountain biking guidebook to Scotland. It includes 50 selected routes, single and multi-day routes, spread over the whole of the Highland region, i.e. Argyll, the Southern, Central and Northern Highlands and the Cairngorms. The fifty routes in this guide represent some of the best riding to be enjoyed anywhere. They range from short, easy jaunts to full-on epics penetrating deep into the heart of the hills and glens. Bad weather alternatives are listed. The book offers advice on access, nearest bike shops to the routes, and how to get there. It is the first guide to cover the whole of Scotland north of the Highland Fault Line. It is fulsomely illustrated with maps and inspirational photographs, and compiled by a highly respected Scottish biker.

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Cycling in Scotland Books - Bike Scotland Book One: 40 great routes from Central Scotland

From Pocket Mountains, the publisher of Scotland's best-selling mountain walking guides, comes Bike Scotland: Book One by Fergal MacErlean. This beautifully designed little guide contains 40 bike routes, all starting and finishing at train stations in Central Scotland. Areas covered include Fife, Perthshire, Glasgow, Loch Lomond and the Clyde Islands, Edinburgh and the Lothians, and Falkirk and Stirling. Each route is accompanied by stunning photography, full-colour sketch maps and additional facts about the history, geology and wildlife of the area.

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Children's Activities in Perthshire

On holiday or going on holiday in Perthshire and not sure what to do with the kids. Click link below for some ideas.

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Scottish Whisky Trail - Perthshire

Fancy seeing how Scotland's national drink is produced and maybe sampling a few (for quality control obviously). In Perthshire you will find the smallest and oldest distilleries in Scotland.

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Highland Perthshire - Working Watermill

A working watermill in Perthshire that actually produces it's own flour to sell and to make their own bread, just as our ancestors did.

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Scottish Golfing Books - Scotland's Golf Courses: The Complete Guide

Scotland is the home of golf. Thousands visit the country every year to experience and explore the difficulties and delights of the greatest courses in the world, and most make the pilgrimage to St Andrews, where the game was first played in the fifteenth century. No matter how good, golfers never believe they have really played the game until they have attempted to master the subtle intricacies of at least one of Scotland's rich variety of courses, be it St Andrews or the other Open Championship venues of Carnoustie, Muirfield, Turnberry or Royal Troon. Or the beautiful Royal Dornoch, Gleneagles or Loch Lomond. Or any other of Scotland's golfing gems. Since Scotland's Golf Courses: The Complete Guide was first published in 1997, many new courses have been built in keeping with the finest Scottish traditions. Now this new updated edition, dedicated to the excellence of Scottish golf, provides all the essential information on more than 500 courses. It includes a directory of clubs, with a description of each course, how to get there, facilities, catering, green fees and hotel accommodation, plus photographs as well as diagrams of Scotland's most interesting and challenging holes. Scotland's Golf Courses: The Complete Guide is essential if you are golfing in Scotland.

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Scottish Golfing Books - St. Andrews and Golf

Offers an artist's perspective of historic St Andrews -- known throughout the golfing world as the 'birthplace of golf' and home of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. Arthur Weaver, a premier golf artist for three decades, depicts many of the events and personalities which have influenced golf in St Andrews for more than 500 years. Also featured are the interesting sights and traditions of the town, which dates back to the Roman Empire. Interspersed among the hundreds of illustrations are exclusive essays by noted golf personalities. Discover the appeal of the 'auld grey toun' and why more famous golfers have set foot on the Old Course than on any other golf course in the world.

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Scottish Golfing Books - Scotland's Golf Courses: History and Landscape

This golf book takes a different approach to the usual coffee-table mix of scenic views and purple prose. Written by a geologist and geographer, it is a detailed survey of Scotland's golfing environment, exploring the unique features and terrain which make Scottish courses the most varied and challenging in the world. The acclaimed first edition of Scotland's Golf Courses described and assessed 425 courses, and became an essential handbook for the discerning golfer.

There are now over 500 golf courses in Scotland. The underlying structures of all of these are analysed in this new edition, and the invaluable region-by-region guide lists location, address, length, standard scratch score, restrictions on access, cost of a weekday round, date founded and course type. Scotland is the home of golf, and its courses are part of golfing history. The book includes an account of the history of the game in Scotland, and explains how the phenomenal growth of interest in golf has been driven by tourism, increased leisure time and media coverage.

There are many distinct types of golf courses: inland courses built over rocky outcrops, parklands and heather moorlands, and seaside courses, including the classic links which attract golfers from all over the world. The descriptions of the most important courses of each type are accompanied by course diagrams in colour, and many colour photographs illustrate key features described in the text. This is a book for the serious golfing enthusiast; it will enable him or her to get the most out of Scotland's rich golfing environment and heritage.

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Perthshire Golf Clubs - Kenmore - Taymouth Castle

Golf originated in Scotland and Taymouth Castle (Kenmore-Perthshire) was not only built by one of the most famous designers, but today the golf course is one of the very best examples in the country. It is also one of the best kept secrets in Perthshire!

The course is set in a stunning parkland setting and is surrounded by hills mountains, rivers and streams. It really is an experience to be remembered.

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Perthshire Golf Clubs - Gleneagles

For those who are addicted to the game of golf, the Gleneagles® Hotel golf resort offers the chance to play on the world's finest golf courses with its' three championship golf courses in Scotland.

As well as the challenge of the Kings, the secluded charms of the Queens, or the nine hole Wee Course, there is the exceptional PGA Centenary Course created by Jack Nicklaus, venue for the 40th Ryder Cup matches in 2014. This is golf in Scotland at its best.

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Perthshire Golf Clubs - Comrie

Comrie Golf Club was founded in 1891 and is notably one of the finest and picturesque nine hole golf courses in Perthshire. Situated on the outskirts of the village of Comrie, seven miles from Crieff on the A85 is just under a half an hours drive from Gleneagles, venue for the 2014 Ryder Cup and one and a half hours drive from Edinburgh and Glasgow airports.

The greens are always in excellent condition, and the club is proud of the quality of the course. Golfers of all abilities will find it a challenging experience to play. The new Clubhouse has been designed to provide modern facilities while retaining the intimate atmosphere of a small country golf club. Meals and snacks are served from April until October.

Comrie Golf Club welcomes visitors and parties. Families are catered for in a number of ways. Children can play golf at most times, and dogs can be taken on the course with a lead. There are interesting woodland walks around the course for the non-playing visitor to enjoy. Shopping can be done in the village or in Crieff. Comrie Golf Club presents a leisurely way to play your golf, as well as a challenge to the serious golfer.

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Perthshire Golf Courses - Blairgowrie

The Blairgowrie Golf Club was founded as a private members club in 1889 and is situated in the heart of the magnificent Perthshire countryside. The Club features the renowned Rosemount and Lansdowne championship courses plus a very attractive 9-hole course which are set in heather lined avenues of pine and silver birch.

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Perthshire Golf Clubs - Aberfeldy

Aberfeldy Golf Club was founded in 1895 and, until 1995, was a nine hole course which ran along the south bank of the River Tay. In 1993 the Club decided to extend the course to eighteen holes. In order to do this a bridge had to be built across the river and, almost a century to the day that the course originally opened, the new course was opened to members and the public. The new course runs on either side of the River Tay and has the unique attraction of allowing players to cross the historic river via its own private bridge, which is listed in the Guiness Book of Records.

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Perthshire Golf Clubs - Dunkeld and Birnam

The course is one of the most picturesque in Perthshire with each hole affording not only a new and interesting challenge for the golfer, but also ever changing views of the glorious surrounding countryside.

You are guaranteed a friendly welcome, warm hospitality and an enjoyable round of golf at Dunkeld and Birnam. Catering, bar facilities, buggies, trolley and club hire available.

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Scottish Outdoor Access Code

Everyone has the right to be on most land and inland water providing they act responsibly. Your access rights and responsibilities are explained fully in the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.

Whether you're in the outdoors or managing the outdoors, the key things are to:

1) Take responsibility for your own actions.

2) Respect the interests of other people.

3) Care for the environment.

Find out more by visiting www.outdooraccess-scotland.com or if you would like to have a copy of the full code please phone Scottish Natural Heritage on telephone number 01738-444177.

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