Product Description

This is the essential guide book that contains everything the visitor needs to know about the island's heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna. As well as helping visitors to explore and understand the landscape, it gives an array of useful information on services, facilities and places to visit. As beautiful as it is informative, this book features a wealth of stunning photography, supplied by Derek Croucher.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #122937 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-24
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
Norman Newton was born in Glasgow in 1944, spent his teenage years in Nelson, New Zealand, and attended college and university in the USA. In 1971 he returned to Scotland to work in university and public libraries, in Glasgow, Campbeltown and Inverness. He has written extensively on Scottish islands, Highland history and archaeology, and is now the reference librarian at Inverness public library.

Customer Reviews

beautiful book
A small book, but loaded with gorgeous colour pictures of this beautiful Island in the Hebrides. Has a Useful Information and Places to visit Guide. Gives you a crash course of Place-Names and their pronunciation, so you won't be murdering the Gaelic. Includes of map, gives information of Medieval ruins, the Islay distilleries - which produces fine Single Malt Whisky. Gives you a real flavour of this delightful Island. The book is soft sided and lightweight so if you plan to visit, the book is easy to take along.

An attractive and informative guide
Looking at the superb photographs in this book you would think that the weather on this Scottish island is always glorious! Famous places such as the famous "Round Church" at Bowmore (Kilarrow Parish) are included. The Isle of Islay is not without problems - such as precarious employment prospects (due to vagaries in the whisky industry, tourism, etc), but then this book is not seeking to be an in-depth report into social conditions. This book gives a very good overview of the history, flora, fauna and geography of this west of Scotland island. It contains useful information (particularly for walkers) and would also make an attractive souvenir of a visit. This book should inspire the reader to make a visit to this attractive, uncrowded island. Incidentally, the island is pronounced Eye-la - not Eye-lay!

Worst printed boook I have ever seen
This would have to be the worst printed book I have ever seen. Pages 97 to 112 were printed twice, and pages 80 to 96 were missing completely. There is no excuse for that sort of sloppy production in the 21st century.