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Audio Guide to The Northern Highlands & Islands

Visitor Guide to The Northern Highlands & Islands

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Narrated by Ray Conn, a singer-songwriter who has been in the industry for over forty years and has worked with us on some of our earlier titles.

This area has magnificent sea and landscapes shaped over thousands of years by geological shifts, scouring glaciers and the relentless waves of the oceans. Rugged and weather-beaten and far removed from the rest of the country, located at the very north-west fringe of Europe.

It’s a region that is both wild yet romantic, with breathtaking sunsets, deserted golden beaches and dramatic mountain passes.

The salmon rivers, hill lochans and lochs amongst the wide open moor-land and forestry are managed as sporting estates. Whose centre- piece Victorian shooting lodges seem to punctuate the landscape and illustrate the division of such vast tracts of land, between the absentee aristocrats, industrialists and foreign landowners. Another indication are the painted doors and gables of the bothies, cottages and farms in uniform estate colours, including even the BT phone box on the Duke of Westminster’s estate.

However a couple of great landowning Scottish clan chiefs with ancient castles still hold sway in the likes of Dunrobbin and Dunvegan, as they have for several hundred years.

Whilst Assynt is one of the first and best examples of community land-ownership.

The towns and villages all serve the hinterland with the essentials of everyday life, however the ruined crofts in every glen tell the distressing tale of the highland clearances when half the population was forcibly displaced to make way for sheep.

The mainland is essentially encapsulated by a coast road, which at times, seems to reluctantly join the small communities together. However this is intersected by a few minor single-track roads that head out across the open heather, which provide a great way of sectioning the area into shorter day trips.

Skye has the same outstanding scenery, mountains and sea, albeit on a slightly more manageable scale than the mainland.

Whilst the Western Isles is one of the World’s oldest and most exposed land surfaces washed and worn by the mighty Atlantic from all sides and now offers the option of visiting the entire necklace of islands by ferry and causeway, from Barra to Lewis.

Highly acclaimed by all who listen to it, we receive numerous letters and Emails from all over the globe in praise of this production.