Raised on movies such as Brigadoon, they hope to see traditional blackhouses and thatched cottages. What they find is a landscape punctuated by what Maudlin describes as regular boxes, covered in harling and painted an aseptic white.
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The Highland House Transformed, by Daniel Maudlin (Dundee UP, £16.99)
In this slim but substantial volume, Daniel Maudlin sets out to answer a question that he says vexes US tourists, who are thrilled by the grandeur of the Highland scenery but disappointed by the absence of the kind of folksy historic buildings they expect to find.
