BTW, looking for Scottish Authors?

http://www.slainte.org.uk/scotauth/scauhome.htm

Note that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is there (Sherlock Holmes) As well as Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island) and Alistair MacClean (The Guns of Navarone).

Personally, I'd read a bit of John Muir, probably from "My First Summer in the Sierra".