Wild History: Journeys into Lost ScotlandJames Crawford2025

You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach; climb to the summit of a lonely hill; pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them - the traces of the past. There is nothing to explain their fading presence, or to account for what they once were - who made them, lived in them or abandoned them. Now they are merged with the landscape. They are wild history.

In this book, James Crawford takes you to many such places all over Scotland, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient burial sites to the derelict husks of faded industry. In leaving behind the well-worn paths to explore the lost shadows of our past, he uncovers a landscape full of stories. Wild histories that are all around us, just waiting to be noticed.