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The Finest Road in the World

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

The Finest Road in the World

By James Miller

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About the book

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called 'killer' highways - stories abound about the horrors of travel in the Highlands and Islands, and have done for as far as the records go back.James Miller tells the dramatic and sometimes surprisingly humorous story of travel and transport in the Highlands. Some of the figures in the story are familiar - General George Wade, Thomas Telford and Joseph Mitchell among them - but the...Show more

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ISBN

9781780275734

Publisher

Birlinn General

Published year

2019

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Edition

1

Original title

The Finest Road in the World

Format

Paperback

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