Consists of eight essays, which begin with a canoe trip down the River Dee in 2002 and the author's epic round of the Munros in the company of his friend Dave Hughes in 1986. Terra Ingognita deals with the Monadliath mountains. Crofting on the Edge deals with people the author has encountered who have chosen to live in the remote areas of Scotl
'Hell of a Journey' describes what is arguably the last great journey to be undertaken in Britain: the entire Scottish Highlands on foot in one winter. It is a vivid and evocative account of a remarkable trek and celebrates the uniqueness of the Highlands, the scenery and ecology of 'the last wilderness in Europe'.
The journeys in this book are tales of adventure on foot and by canoe through some of the last wild places in Scotland. Each journey is haunted by the ghost of another writer - Neil Gunn, Iain Thomson, Rowena Farre - who has left behind the trace of his or her own experience of these isolated hills, glens, streams or lochs.