However, Scott has perhaps forgotten why the islands were put in a box in the first place, and this reason hasn’t changed in the hundreds of years that people have been making maps of Scotland.

Head to the country's storied west coast, the historic seat of the powerful Clan Campbell, for smoke-laced whiskies, shoreline adventures and towering Munros. With higher than UK average levels of ...

In the Highlands and Islands, trace the steps of historic funeral processions through epic landscapes on some of Scotland’s most intriguing hikes.