Best Scottish non-fiction

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The Buttercup: The Remarkable Story of Andrew Ewing and the Buttercup Dairy Company
The Buttercup: The Remarkable Story of Andrew Ewing and the Buttercup Dairy Company 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived
Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived 4.75 avg rating — 80 ratings
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It 3.94 avg rating — 6,617 ratings
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The Shetland Bus
The Shetland Bus 4.11 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
by: John Guy
3.94 avg rating — 5,224 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots 3.99 avg rating — 17,291 ratings
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Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes 3.82 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads 4.67 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861
Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861 3.51 avg rating — 43 ratings
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 3.58 avg rating — 859 ratings
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Rebus's Scotland
Rebus's Scotland 3.96 avg rating — 471 ratings
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The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland 4.46 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen 3.74 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Robert the Bruce: King of Scots
Robert the Bruce: King of Scots 3.94 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre
Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre 3.93 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Calum's Road
Calum's Road 3.90 avg rating — 529 ratings
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes 3.66 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Burke and Hare
Burke and Hare 2.77 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Daunderlust: Dispatches from Unreported Scotland
Daunderlust: Dispatches from Unreported Scotland 4.09 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900 4.06 avg rating — 413 ratings
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101 Scottish Country Dances
101 Scottish Country Dances really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sea Room
Sea Room 3.87 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
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Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History
Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History 4.04 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Burke and Hare: The Year of the Ghouls
Burke and Hare: The Year of the Ghouls 3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Passion of Harry Bingo: Further Dispatches from Unreported Scotland
The Passion of Harry Bingo: Further Dispatches from Unreported Scotland 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 29,988 ratings
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The Darien Disaster: a Scots Colony in the New World, 1698 - 1700
The Darien Disaster: a Scots Colony in the New World, 1698 - 1700 3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities, c.1740-90
The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities, c.1740-90 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
by: Anne Ross
3.83 avg rating — 124 ratings
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The Sea Kingdoms: The History of Celtic Britain & Ireland
The Sea Kingdoms: The History of Celtic Britain & Ireland 3.95 avg rating — 257 ratings
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There's Always the Hills
There's Always the Hills 3.94 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Lion in the North: A Personal View of Scotland's History
The Lion in the North: A Personal View of Scotland's History 3.94 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Appin Murder: The Killing that Shook a Nation
The Appin Murder: The Killing that Shook a Nation 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia 4.28 avg rating — 201 ratings
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True North: Travels in Arctic Europe
True North: Travels in Arctic Europe 3.97 avg rating — 246 ratings
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The Prisoner of St. Kilda: The True Story of the Unfortunate Lady Grange
The Prisoner of St. Kilda: The True Story of the Unfortunate Lady Grange 3.86 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String: A History of Scottish Dance Music
Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String: A History of Scottish Dance Music liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Calanais: The Standing Stones
Calanais: The Standing Stones 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
39.
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination 4.09 avg rating — 5,249 ratings
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Donald McLeod's Gloomy Memories in the Highlands of Scotland versus Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Sunny Memories in (England), a Foreign Land, or a Faithful Picture of the Extirpation of the Celtic Race from the Highlands of Scotland
Donald McLeod's Gloomy Memories in the Highlands of Scotland versus Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Sunny Memories in (England), a Foreign Land, or a Faithful Picture of the Extirpation of the Celtic Race from the Highlands of Scotland really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland: A History
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland: A History liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Mary Queen Of Scots: The Fair Devil Of Scotland
Mary Queen Of Scots: The Fair Devil Of Scotland 3.92 avg rating — 240 ratings
43.
Burt's Letters from the North of Scotland
Burt's Letters from the North of Scotland 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Tales and Travels of a School Inspector
Tales and Travels of a School Inspector 3.37 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Scottish History: A Complete Introduction
Scottish History: A Complete Introduction 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings
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A Memoir of the 'Forty-Five
A Memoir of the 'Forty-Five 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Scotland: Archaeology and Early History: A General Introduction
Scotland: Archaeology and Early History: A General Introduction 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Celts: A History
The Celts: A History 3.83 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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A School in South Uist: Reminiscences of a Hebridean Schoolmaster, 1890 - 1913
A School in South Uist: Reminiscences of a Hebridean Schoolmaster, 1890 - 1913
by: F.G. Rea
4.02 avg rating — 82 ratings
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A Social History of Scottish Dance: Ane Celestial Recreatioun
A Social History of Scottish Dance: Ane Celestial Recreatioun liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Magic of the Scottish Islands
The Magic of the Scottish Islands 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Indian Peter: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Peter Williamson
Indian Peter: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Peter Williamson 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Portrait of Scotland
Portrait of Scotland 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Finlay J. Macdonald Omnibus
The Finlay J. Macdonald Omnibus 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire 3.28 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Images of Scotland
Images of Scotland really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers 4.01 avg rating — 764 ratings
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland 3.73 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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Whisky in Your Pocket
Whisky in Your Pocket really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Scotland and Its Whiskies: The Great Whiskies and Their Landscapes
Scotland and Its Whiskies: The Great Whiskies and Their Landscapes 4.11 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670 - 1740
Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670 - 1740 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England 3.63 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance
Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance 3.73 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland 4.02 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland 4.28 avg rating — 8,432 ratings
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William Wallace: Brave Heart
William Wallace: Brave Heart 3.80 avg rating — 654 ratings
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"Early Glasgow Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean", Scottish Archaeological Journal, Sep 2010, vo. 31, No. 1-2 : pp. 115-136
"Early Glasgow Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean", Scottish Archaeological Journal, Sep 2010, vo. 31, No. 1-2 : pp. 115-136 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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'Tis Sixty Years Since: The First People's Festival Ceilidh and the Scottish Folk Revival
'Tis Sixty Years Since: The First People's Festival Ceilidh and the Scottish Folk Revival 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots 4.08 avg rating — 2,446 ratings