Combining the writing of Michael Jackson with images by landscape photographer Harry Cory Wright, this volume evokes the magic and diversity of Scotland's terrain, its distilleries, its whisky lore, and its most famous export - the great malts. Whether they are studying ancient forms of barley in the Orkneys, drinking tea with peat-cutters while a storm brews over Islay, or favouring the finished product by the shore at sundown, they bring a personal understanding to the magic of malt. Anyone with even the slightest fancy for Scotland or its water of life will gain much from joining their explorations.