This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the lives of the Lochside men who crewed the yachts of the rich and famous in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

BASED ON THE LANDMARK BBC SERIES ‘SCOTLAND FROM THE SKY’ ‘In this book, you will travel in both space and time, starting in the years around the First World War and moving all the way up to the present day. As you go, you will see just what our pioneering aviators saw as they stared out from their cockpits. And, more than that, you will explore what they were trying to find. Because, from above, Scotland can be many different things, depending on what you choose to look at – and who is doing the looking.’

It is easy to overlook how much of our history is preserved all around us – the way the narrative of bygone days has been inscribed in fields, forests, hills and mountains, roads, railways, canals, lochs, buildings and settlements. Indeed, footprints of the past are to be found almost everywhere.