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A Scot Goes South - A Journey from Mexico to Ayers Rock    by Alastair Scott
Price: $1.99 USD. 136680 words. Language: English. Published on April 21, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

Here is the sequel to Alastair Scott's highly acclaimed Scot Free, describing the next two years of his five-year odyssey, this time in Central and South America, Australia and New Zealand. He writes with the same infectious brio as in his first book, a photographer's eye enriching the writer's, seizing with delight upon the egregious and eccentric, the larger-than-life that turns out to be life.
A Scot Returns - A Journey from Bali to Skye    by Alastair Scott
Price: $1.99 USD. 144720 words. Language: English. Published on April 22, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

The last of a trilogy, by turns comic and astonishing, of a remarkable five-year pilgrimage around the world. Travelling on foot, camel, elephant and public transport Scott slips, trots and lumbers through the cultures of the Far and Near East. He carries a notebook, a will to understand, a bent towards absurdities and…(ever the optimist)…a universal bath plug where there are no universal drains.
Scot Free - A Journey from the Arctic to New Mexico    by Alastair Scott
Price: $0.99 USD. 129170 words. Language: English. Published on April 20, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

The first in the trilogy describing Alastair Scott's epic five-year journey around the world, much of it wearing a kilt. On and (sometimes very far) off the beaten track, he brings the unusual and the eccentric vividly before our eyes, giving many an unforgettable portrait of people with whom he shared, for brief moments or extended periods, his own delight in humanity in all its forms.