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This eBook offering is an excerpt of Lonely Planet's latest Scotland's Highlands & Islands guide book and includes:

• Shetland Islands chapter

• Understand Scotland's Highlands & Islands and Survival Guide

• Shetland Islands maps

Adrift in the North Sea, the Shetland Islands are Britain's most northerly outpost. One of the great attractions of Shetland is the birdlife; it's worth packing binoculars even if you're not fanatical about it.

This guide is the result of research by dedicated authors and local experts who immersed themselves in the Shetland Islands, finding unique experiences, and sharing practical and honest advice, so you come away informed and amazed. This guide includes up-to-date reviews of the best places to stay, eat, sights, cultural information, maps, transport tips and a few best kept secrets – all the essentials to get to the heart of the Shetland Islands.

Coverage includes:

• Understand Scotland's Highlands & Islands: Scotland's Highlands & Islands Today, History, Highland Culture, Landscapes & Wildlife, the Scottish Larder, Survival Guide: Directory, Transport and Glossary

• Lerwick, Bressay & Noss, Central & West Mainland, Scalloway, Tingwall & around, Weisdale & around, West Side, Papa Stour, Foula, South Mainland, Sandwick & around, Bigton & around, Boddam & Scousburgh, Quendale, Sumburgh, North Mainland, Voe, Whalsay & Out Skerries, Brae & around, Muckle Roe Walk, Northmavine, the North Isles, Yell, Unst, Fetlar and Fair Isle.

Lonely Planet's Scotland's Highlands & Islands guide is researched and written by Neil Wilson.