Sandstone Press Ltd: 78 books

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Higher Ground

A Mountain Guide's Life

by Martin Moran
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014

Martin Moran has been a man of the mountains since youth. Famously, he made the first solo ascent of the Scottish Munros in the winter months, as described in his great book, The Munros in Winter (published by Sandstone Press). For decades now he has made his living as a mountain guide based in Strathcarron,...
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Hamish's Mountain Walk

The first non-stop round of all the 3000ft Scottish Munros

by Hamish Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

Hamish Brown's account of his epic walk has been the inspiration for generations of hillwalkers. Sandstone Press is proud to present, not a mere reprint, but a complete reimagining of the book in a modern font, with a new introduction and appendix, and a new, extended colour plate section all provided...
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by Alison Lang
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

San Dùthaich Ùir is a story of second generation exile. Anna looks up to both her mother and her Aunt Marguerite although they live very different lives. Her mother's is one of work and duty but Marguerite's ways are quite different and Anna's father does not approve. Anna eventually enters university...
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by Daniel Shand
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016

Fallow is a tense, thrilling literary novel combining elements of dark comedy and surrealism. At its heart is the relationship between two brothers bound by a terrible crime. Paul and Mikey are on the run, apparently from the press surrounding their house after Mikey’s release from prison. His crime,...
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Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

by Chris Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

As probably the world's most experienced long distance walker who also writes, Chris Townsend has many stories to tell and many photographs to illustrate them with. Of all his adventures, those he enjoyed on America's Pacific Crest Trail in the Eighties are among his favourites. The PCT runs 2,600...
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The Passion of Harry Bingo

Further Dispatches from Unreported Scotland

by Peter Ross
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017

The Passion of Harry Bingo: Further Dispatches From Unreported Scotland is the second volume of selected journalism from one of Scotland’s most popular writers. It follows the highly successful publication in 2014 of Daunderlust and looks at Scotland in its post-Referendum years, the interests, activities and passions of its people and places.
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China in Drag

Travels with a Cross-dresser

by Michael Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017

Approaching the end of his five year stint as a BBC journalist in Beijing, Michael Bristow decided he wanted to write about the country's modern history. To assist him he asked for the help of his language teacher. It came as a surprise though, to learn that the teacher was also a cross-dresser.
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Cairngorm John

A Life in Mountain Rescue

by John Allen
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012

For over thirty years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and for most of them acted as Team Leader. In 'Cairngorm John' (his call sign when in contact with search and rescue helicopters) he recalls the challenges of mountain rescue and the many changes he has both...
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by Cameron McNeish
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018

From his home in the Cairngorms of Scotland, Cameron McNeish reflects on a life dedicated to the outdoors. Following his career as an international long jump athlete, he has for almost forty years written and talked about walking and climbing in Scotland, meeting some of the sport’s great characters...
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Tom Weir

an anthology

by Tom Weir
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013

From his early years Tom Weir MBE was set on making his way as an explorer, writer and photographer, a progress interrupted by World War Two but then leading to expeditions ranging from the Himalayas to Greenland. For over forty years his feature 'My Month' appeared in the Scots Magazine, reflecting...
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by Ron MacMillan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008

The Shetland Islands sit where the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea meet, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Over the centuries they have been a vital staging post for Vikings, Hanseatic traders and merchant sailors from faraway lands. Yet somehow, the same islands remain 'off the map'...
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by Hamish Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017

Hamish Brown has been an outdoorsman for more than sixty years. The first person to complete an uninterrupted round of Scotland’s Munros, his account of the feat in Hamish’s Mountain Walk is a classic of Scottish mountain literature. Throughout those years he has contributed articles and essays...
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by Steve Chilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013

This book offers a detailed history of the sport of fell running. It also tells the stories of some of the great exponents of the sport through the ages. Many of them achieved greatness whilst still working full time in traditional jobs, a million miles away from the professionalism of other branches...
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by James Edgecombe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014

The Takayanagi family of art dealers have long been associated with the artist ichiro Kozu (1878-1953). In Paris, the founder of the Midori Gallery knew him when he painted his tragic, married lover, miko. Even more controversially, Kozu's painting in Indochina during the Japanese occupation 'looks...
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