Book description
The true Scot's insider's guide to the very best Scotland has to offer.
Whether you live in Scotland or are visiting, why settle for anything
second-rate when you can be guided to so much that is superb? Peter
Irvine's personal guide points you towards the best places to stay
(whatever your budget), the best beaches, the best ice-cream, the best
hill walks, the best bakers, the best spooky places, the best seafood,
the best places for kids, the best ceildhs, and so the list goes on.
However well you know Scotland, Peter Irvine will guide you to something
excitingly new. That's why it remains the only guide to Scotland that
the Scots themselves buy. Scotland the Best was first published in 1993.
Since then its reputation has grown and it has been widely praised in
reviews, won awards from the Tourist industry and, above all, delighted
readers from all over the world. And it's also sold close to 250,000 copies!
In this new edition, every recommendation has been reassessed to see
whether it is still worthy of inclusion, and the selection criteria has
become even more stringent. Clear colour mapping from Collins and
website links for all entries, a new look to the cover, plus an exciting
new picture section and new chapter intros make this a more vibrant book
to have as your companion.
Quirky, personalized and informed, Peter Irvine's guide gives you what
other travel guides only claim to - a true Scot's insider's guide.
'the book is also a gospel, a love poem to Scotland and a patriotic tract'
The Observer
'Nobody tells it better…All that's wonderful about Scotland is in the
book' Daily Express
'Infallible and quite brilliant'
Daily Telegraph
'Makes all other guides to Scotland redundant'
The Sunday Times
'The only guide worth a damn'
The Scotsman
'he has been a driving force in Scottish tourism' Ecosse (Supp. To the
Sunday Times - Scottish Edition)
'Irvine has also become quite the figurehead for Scottish tourism'
Aberdeen Press & Journal
'Apart from a clever structure and the highest journalistic standards,
this book is a joy. The clever thing about such opinionated copy is that
pretty soon one picks up the character of the writer, and thus can get a
much more accurate and tactile impression of a place than from so-called
even handed reports. This book can only enhance the pleasure of visiting
or living in Scotland'
Amazon Peter Irvine is a director of two of the leading edge events
companies in Scotland who produce most of the major public events in
Glasgow and Edinburgh, including the annual Glasgow Art Fair and
Edinburgh's Hogmanay, which is now the biggest New Year festival in the world.
In 2000 Peter Irvine was given the Thistle award for his personal
contribution to tourism in Scotland and in 2002 gained another Thistle
award for the Glasgow Art Fair.
