View from the Ridge

Ian R Mitchell is a historian who gave up teaching to write full time. He is the author of several prize-winning books on mountains and the great outdoors. A lifelong hill-walker, he has had 40 years of experience of mountains throughout the world.

• Foreword to the new edition 9Preface Out of Eden 11chapter 1 Introduction: Mair o’ the same? chapter 2 Freewheelin’ chapter 3 Sex and the Single Bothier chapter 4 Iron Way: Ticket to Ride chapter 5 The Sound of Knuckles on Flesh chapter 6 Long Island Journey chapter 7 The Log from the Sea of the Hebrides chapter 8 Outward Bound chapter 9 A Short Drive in America 1chapter 10 Big, Black-hairtet River chapter 11 The Auld Crowd chapter 12 Second Ascent, Variation chapter 13 Requiem for Willie chapter 14 Married Man’s Bothy Weekend chapter 15 A View From the Ridge

If you buy any one mountain book this year, make sure it is this one. KEVIN BORMAN, High Mountain magazineOne of Scotland's most distinguished mountain writers. THE GREAT OUTDOORS MAGAZINEWritten... with obvious expertise, knowledge and love of [the] subject. SCOTS INDEPENDENTHe knows his mountains and his history and that awareness informs almost every page. SCOTS MAGAZINE