Kayak to Cape Wrath
By: John Lewis Henderson.
Publisher: W. Maclellan
Published: 1951
Place of publication: Glasgow, Scotland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Canoes and canoeing -- Scotland.; Scotland -- Description and travel.
First sentence: The starlit sky and sough of wind-troubled trees, the scent of night pine and woodsmoke, the balm of sun and scourge of rain, the laughter and friendship of tried companions; these simple, but incomparable things, are the stimulus to my writing.
Description: Kayak to Cape Wrath is the remarkable story of canoe voyaging through Hebridean seas to the most Northerly point of the British West coast. Scenes of quiet camps and lonely strands are varied with the sunny driftings and quick storms, which face the party on the journey North. As astonishing as the sea trip itself, is their final overland crossing of North Scotland, by river and loch, to the East Coast railway.

Descriptive mastery is the keynote of writing which captures the elusive nostalgia of the Western Isles and blazes a new trail through the romantic backlands of the Scottish Highlands.
Notes: There are very few known copies of this book, 3 are held by the son of the late Eric Simpson to whom this book is dedicated.
Table of contents: label: Illustrations
pagenum: 1
title: Map of Scottish West Coast; label: 4
pagenum: 161
title: Ullapool to cape Wrath and Lairg