Pictorials

[hailiamdigby]

I've got the SMC books of "The Munros" and "The Corbetts" and - as well as being excellent guides - I more enjoy leafing through them, ogling the lines, curves and peaks of the mountains

The thing is, I must have seen these images a good many times now that I wouldn't mind another source, to get me to sleep

Does anyone know of any good pictorials? The less text, the better. Just a fat book of photos would do me fine. Hopefully some of you will know some

Thank you.

p.s It doesn't just have to be Scotland, either. Anywhere would probably be great but the UK would probably be of more interest to me.

[Caberfeidh]

Hamish MacInnes did one or two, I believe that bloke Colin Somebody who does the calenders also does pictorial books of photies of moodily-lit hills, glens, forests, etc. I myself could simply read maps all day. If they did O.S. map books, I'd buy them.

[hailiamdigby]

Thanks Caberfeidh.
I'll have a hunt just now

[mrssanta]

Hamish MacInnes did one or two, I believe that bloke Colin Somebody who does the calenders also does pictorial books of photies of moodily-lit hills, glens, forests, etc. I myself could simply read maps all day. If they did O.S. map books, I'd buy them.

they did used to, I have an OS atlas of britain, it's great, sadly only 1:250 000 scale but it's good to get a feel of where everything is

[hailiamdigby]

I've searched around Ebay, google and Amazon, by author but haven't realy found anything except calendars. If anyone has titles, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

The Hamish Macinnes one seemed to be called "Scottish Climbs: A Mountaineer's pictorial guide". I found 2 volumes of that but it didn't say anything about being a pictorial. They might have been books, with the same name.

[RicKamila]

There are 2 Colin's.

Colin Baxter and Colin Prior. I prefer Baxter's work.

[BlackPanther]

I got "The Call of the Corbetts" by Irvine Butterfield for Xmass. Lots and lots of beautiful photos, I keep going through it over and over

There's a similar album by the same author "The magic of the Munros", I haven't got it but it must be of a similar style.

[RicKamila]

Pop into Waterstones on Union Street, the one up Holburn way. Lots of good books in there with pictures of the UK.

[Sgurr]

If you're prepared to go old fashioned, Poucher's Scotland is good. He was one of the best mountain photographers of his day, but we used to prefer his guide books and got THIS thinking it was one, but it is just colour pics. Only 1p plus postage off Amazon.
He had a very colourful life too.

[foggieclimber]

The Cuillin by Gordon Stainforth is a good mostly pictorial book

[Paul Webster]

The Cuillin by Gordon Stainforth is a good mostly pictorial book

for that one. Worth getting his 'Eyes to the Hills' too - plenty of Scotland in it if you can get a 2nd hand copy on Amazon.

Joe Cornish's 'Scotland's Mountains' is another good one. He has a good Scottish coastal photo book as well.

[Alan S]

The Cuillin by Gordon Stainforth is a good mostly pictorial book

for that one

This one gets my vote, I got this recently, Loads of nice big pics without loads of writing , Just what I like

[Gavin99]

Scotland's Landscapes , The National Collection of Aerial Photography
James Crawford / RCAHMS

Photos , lots of them , from a plane . Excellent .

[Border Reiver]

Highland Wilderness - by Colin Prior and Magnus Linklater is a large book, - 190 pages, nearly all double-page panoramas.

[hailiamdigby]

Awesome recommendations.
Looks like I've got a lot of searching to do now
Thank you all.