The books listed below whose texts appear on Undiscovered Scotland are long out of copyright. What sets the Undiscovered Scotland version apart in each case is the cross linking between the text of each book and features elsewhere on the site, allowing the reader to explore beyond the text itself, finding out more about the places and people mentioned.

Some books listed here contain fascinating sections about Scotland within a wider work. Here only the Scottish section(s) are included. These books are *starred in the list below.

Books about Travel

• From John o' Groat's to Lands End byRobert Naylor and John Naylor* (1916)

• British Highways and Byways From a MotorCar, by Thomas D. Murphy* (1908)

• Guide to the East Neuk of Fife, by D HayFleming (1886)

• Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, by RobertLouis Stevenson (1879)

• A Summer in Skye, by Alexander Smith(1865)

• Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland,A.D.1803, by Dorothy Wordsworth (1874)

• The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides withSamuel Johnson, LL.D., by James Boswell (1786)

• A Journey to the Western Isles ofScotland, by Samuel Johnson (1775)

• ATour Thro' the whole island of Great Britain, by Daniel Defoe* (1726)

• A Description of the Western Islands ofScotland, by Martin Martin (1703)

• ALate Voyage to St Kilda, by Martin Martin (1698)

• A Description of the Western Isles ofScotland Called Hybrides, by Sir Donald Monro (1549)

History

• A Short History of Scotland, by AndrewLang (1911)

• The Norwegian Account of Haco's ExpeditionAgainst Scotland, 1263, translated by the Rev James Johnstone (1782)

Novels

• Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson(1886)

• Catriona, by Robert Louis Stevenson(1893)