The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland. Down Roman roads tramped by armies warpaths and pilgrim routes drove roads and rail roads turnpikes and sea roads he traces the arteries through which our nations lifeblood has flowed in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. Moffats travels along the hidden ways reveal not only the searing beauty and magic of the Scottish landscape but open up a different sort of history a new way of understanding our past by walking in the footsteps of our ancestors. In retracing the forgotten paths he charts a powerful surprising and moving history of Scotland through the unremembered lives who have moved through it.