"The Hidden Ways" by Alistair Moffat.
This is an account of Scotland's Forgotten Roads, and I think it was someone on here who recommended it.
It describes historic roads now lost, from pre-Roman times to more recent.
For me, it's a bit heavier on history than I'd prefer, but that's probably my problem not the book's.
I was expecting more of a descriptive narrative of the here and now, with some historical perspective to give it context.
But I found myself skim-reading walls of dense text with dates and historical facts.
As I say, that's probably down to my poor background in history.
An artefact of the options available at school, possibly.
But it's left me with the need to know only the most basic history to put the landscape around me in some context; I really have never gained interest in the battles and dates, the succession of power that was in place at the time.
Call me shallow.
That said, the book is otherwise excellent, and there are several places I now wish to visit by bike!
