For a short (64 page) book, this one packs in the information and photos. My wife and I were enchanted by the pictish stones we saw in Scotland, and spent a couple of days just trying to see how many we could find (and photograph). We probably saw about half of the stones pictured in this book. While this books is not just about the stones, but the history of the picts (at least as near as we can tell given they didn't leave much of a record behind), it has a lot of great photos and information on pictish settlements and how they fit in to present day Scotland. This book's a keeper and will probably accompany us on our next visit to Scotland. ( )