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The publication of these books reflected the growing interest in walking and the countryside among ordinary people during the 20th century, as more leisure time became available and travelling became easier.

The early 1990s saw a further two Pentlands books published: The Pentlands’ Pocket Book by Albert Morris and James Bowman in 1990, and Jim Crumley’s Discovering the Pentland Hills a year later. Ian Munro’s The Birds of the Pentland Hills also makes fascinating reading, reflecting the changing weather, the character of the people, and Ian Munro’s own love of the area.

In 2014 the Friends of the Pentlands waymarked a route from Dunsyre to Swanston, called The Pentland Way. A comprehensive guide to the route, written by Bob Paterson, was published in 2015.

Literary Connections with the Pentland Hills

The Pentlands have provided inspiration for many writers, and Cochrane’s Pentland Walks with Their Literary and Historical Associations and Moir’s Pentland Walks, Their Literary and Historical Associations both describe these connections. Allan Ramsay based his pastoral comedy The Gentle Shepherd in the area around Carlops (Walks 16 and 17). Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson walked the northern Pentlands extensively, and Walk 2 covers much of the area explored by Stevenson. (The poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, both evacuated to Craiglockhart Hospital in 1917, also walked in these hills.) (See bibliography,Appendix B, for details of the above titles.)