This book tells stories of the North West Highlands of Scotland, from its easiest beginnings of shifting rock and land-scouring ice to present times.

Meet the last reindeer who came here before ice sheets buried the land, a Mesolithic boy on his first hunt, Neolithic shamans, a skilled builder of Iron Age tower and a Viking Woman who came to settle by the loch. Read of warring clans and troubled times for the crofters in the 19th century.

The landscape shows evidence of their presence while local legends and place names provide intriguing glimpses of their lives. You can visit the places mentioned in the stories and imagine the people who lived here.