Book review: The Finest Road in the World: The Story of Travel and Transport in the Scottish Highlands, by James Miller

The success of the North Coast 500 in rebranding a circuit of the Highlands owes much to parts of it being regarded as among the “finest road in the world”. Indeed, James Miller refers to several such claims in the title of his book, including the tongue-in-check observation of an 18th century clergyman negotiating the perilous Ord of Caithness. Two centuries later, the same accolade was bestowed by an MP on “the new Glasgow-Inverness highway”, aka the A82, whose opening did wonders for tourism, coinciding with sightings of Nessie.