Much-loved Scottish journalist, translator and mountaineer Janet Adam Smith’s classic memoir of her pre-war climbs in the Highlands and the Alps. Already recognised as an authority on Robert Louis Stevenson, her editions of his poems and his correspondence with Henry James soon followed. Indeed, “[i]ntellectually Adam Smith was heir to the Scottish Enlightenment and Edinburgh reviewers” and did much to champion Scottish literature, with her 1965 biography of John Buchan deemed a “masterpiece” (ODNB). Adam Smith (1905-1999) held editorial positions at The Listener and The New Statesman, alongside being a prolific reviewer. Her papers are held at the National Library of Scotland.