This guide is designed to help visitors to the Orkney islands, as well as residents, find their way around and enjoy the many sites and places of interest which can be visited. As well as the main sites, many of the less frequented places and islands are described. It is hoped that folk will find this book helpful in discovering Orkney -- some of the best archaeological sites and bird-watching opportunities in Europe and so much else to see and do that you will certainly want to visit after reading this book. As Ewin Muir said in his Scottish Journey (1935), "Orkney ....has managed, as far as that is humanly possible, to have its cake and eat it. It has been saved by being just outside the circumference of the industrial world, near enough to know about it, but too far off to be drawn into it. Now it seems to me it the only way in which any community can achieve a partial salvation today and live a desirable life, surrounded by an industrial world.

This book is a must for anyone traveling to Scotland or dreaming of doing so. There are many beautiful photographs by Charles Tait whom we have featured on many Scottish Radiance pages.