Scotland's Heritage – a photographic celebration is a new picture history of Scotland's people, buildings, and landscape.

Richly illustrated with almost 300 of John Hannavy's stunning colour photographs, this book looks at Scotland through a number of themed texts and accompanying photo-essays, covering the country from north to south, and from the Western Isles to the great ports and cities of the east coast.

The travelogue of Scotland is almost as old as the printed book. The subject has been tackled by many of the most important and innovative travel writers of the last four hundred years and more – William Camden was the first to attempt the challenge with his Britannia in the  late 16th century, Boswell & Johnson and Pennant toured the Scottish mainland and the Western isles in the 18th century, and others right up to H.V. Morton in the 20th century have offered us their view of what Sir Walter Scott called 'the land of the mountain and the flood'. The land they journeyed through, and the experience of travel, was very different to what we know today, and quotations from their erudite, informative and often amusing observations are used in Scotland's Heritage to contrast their Scotland with ours.

Through an engaging text, the book seeks to convey something of the experience of exploring Scotland's past, of being in the Scottish landscape, the often-dramatic contrasts in its weather, and the spectacular colour changes which take place throughout the seasons.