Highland Journey: A Sketching Tour of Scotland Retracing the Steps of Victorian Artist J. T. Reid

About this book

Following the success of an "Eye on the Hebrides" Mairi Hedderwick was urged to embark on further travels. It was no easy task. A new journey with its inherent deprivations and discomforts could not be done to order. It had to be a compulsion - an inspiration. In the spirit of emulating her model Mairi travelled as the Victorian artist J.T. Reid did mostly on foot and even sold her house in Inverness and lodged in Edinburgh Reids starting place following his sketching tour of Scotland.