A classic of mountain writing, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills as Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan and Stumpy the Big Yin stalk hill and public house, evading gamekeepers and Royalty.

'One thing we'll pit intae it is that there's mair tae it than trudging up and doon daft wet hills.' This classic 'bothy book' celebrates everything there is to hillwalking; the people who do it, the stories they tell and the places they sleep. Where bothies came from, the legendary walkers, the mountain craftsmen and the Goretex and gaiters brigade - and the best and worst of the dosses, howffs and bothies of the Scottish hills. On its 21st anniversary, the book that tried to show the camaraderie and buccaneering spirit of Scottish hillwalking in the early days has now become a part of the legends of the hills. Still likely to inspire you to get out there with a sleeping bag and a hipflask, this new edition brings a bit of mountaineering history to the modern Munro bagger. The climbers dossing down under the corries of Lochnagar may have changed the dress, politics and equipment, but the mountains and the stories are timeless. Dave Brown and Ian R. Mitchell won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature in 1991 for A View from the Ridge, the sequel to Mountain Days & Bothy Nights.

The ideal book for nostalgic hillwalkers and climbers of the '60s, even just the armchair and public house variety... humorous, entertaining, informative, written by two men with obvious expertise, knowledge and love of their subject. - SCOTS INDEPENDENT The doings, sayings, incongruities and idiosyncracies of the denizens of the bothy underworld... An authentic picture of this part of the climbing scene in latter-day Scotland, which like any good picture, will increase in charm over the years. - IAIN SMART, SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEERING CLUB JOURNAL [This] must be the only complete dosser's guide ever put together. - ALISTAIR BORTHWICK, author of the immortal 1930s classic, Always a Little Further