Shetland: Your Essential Travel Guide
Shetland: Your Essential Travel Guide
Shetland: Your Essential Travel Guide
Shetland: Your Essential Travel Guide

Shetland: Your Essential Travel Guide

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Shetland: Your Essential Travel Guide is a book that is sure to become a favorite whether you are planning a trip to Shetland or if you just enjoy the daydreaming! This comprehensive guide to the Shetland Islands is the product of years of meticulous planning, research, and exploration. It is the perfect compendium for all of us with that woolly wanderlust!

Created by the travel writer and Shetlander Laurie Goodlad and the Shetland publisher Misa Hay, two passionate advocates for the islands’ unique charm, this guidebook is an invitation to experience the soul of Shetland, the most northerly islands in the UK. With stunning color photographs and more than 250 pages, this book showcases the islands' natural beauty, intriguing history, and vibrant community life. It offers readers a unique perspective on exploring Shetland.

Shetland: Your Essential Travel Guide Includes:

The Basics:

  • Getting Here and Around
  • Brief History
  • Culture
  • Shetland Today
  • Food & Drink
  • Events Calendar
  • What to Buy
  • Where to Stay
  • Accessible Shetland

Areas:

  • Lerwick & Central Mainland
  • South Mainland
  • Fair Isle & Foula
  • West Mainland
  • Papa Stour
  • Whalsay & Out Skerries
  • Nesting, Lunnasting & Delting
  • North Mainland
  • The North Isles: Yell, Unst & Fetlar

Activities:

  • Natural Wonders
  • Wildlife
  • Beaches
  • Photography
  • Museums & Heritage
  • Archaeology
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Knitting
  • Trips & Tours

Essays:

  • Weather
  • Geology
  • Scandinavian Influence
  • Language & Folklore
  • Clearances
  • Island at War
  • Knitting Heritage
  • Oil Boom
  • Up Helly Aa
  • Shetland, by Ann Cleeves

Itineraries:

  • 3 Days in Shetland
  • 7 Days in Shetland
  • Shetland with Kids: Family Adventures

From the Author: 

“This guidebook is a love letter to our islands, a thank-you of sorts. A thank-you for the summer nights, the winter storms, the calm and the chaos; they are a thank-you for the sting of salt on the cheeks and the first warmth from the May sun, and an acknowledgement of the extreme privilege I have to be able to call Shetland my home.”  ~Laurie Goodlad

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Sally B.
In Love with All Things Shetland!

Laurie Goodlad, author, and Misa Hay at 60 North Publishing have created a love letter of a travel guide to Shetland and their passion shows. A handy sized paperback. the right size for your backpack, carry-on bag or your bedside table, Shetland Your Essential Travel Guide is filled with useful suggestions on how to get there, seasonal travel facts like what to pack (NEVER the umbrella), where to hike and what to see whether you are traveling solo or with friends or family. There are separate travel guides for each of the four sections of the mainland as well as each of the outlying inhabited islands to include maps, local history, hiking routes, and local businesses such as crafts (knitting!), crofters (wool!) and even golf courses. The history of Shetland is reviewed as well as its unique geography, and bird and animal life in a concise and entertaining way. The excellent color photographs illustrate Shetland's dramatic landscape and the surrounding waters. What I really love about this book is how the author weaves all of this information together to demonstrate the enduring enchantment of this northern, windy and rainy archipelago. I can hardly wait to visit Shetland!