Michael Kerrigan (author) lives in Edinburgh, where he writes regularly for the Scotsman newspaper. He is a book reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian, London. As author, he has published extensively on both British and world history and prehistory. He has been a contributor to Flame Tree’s reference companions World History and Irish History as well as to the Times Encyclopaedia of World Religion (2002). Important works on travel include, as editor, the Phaidon Cultural Guides series; he is also author of Who Lies Where: A Guide to Famous Graves (1995), and Lewis and Clark: Blazing a Trail Across the American West (2004).
Dennis Hardley (photographer) was born in Blitzsieged Liverpool in 1940, where he spent his teenage years doing odd jobs for the Beatles before becoming a Concorde engineer. Dennis first became a photographer as an RAF civilian in 1972, supplying pictures to The Scots Magazine. In 1973, he moved to Scotland with his family and established himself as a professional photographer. He has since driven over a million miles in his pursuit of photographing the Scottish landscape.
