The Road to the Isles a daring Commando attack during Operation Roast in the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, and also at the start of construction on Toronto's first subway line, under Yonge Street, in 1949. The lyrics mention first the hills of the Isle of Skye (whose memory is calling the traveller west); then the successive locations he will pass on the way across the Western Highlands and Inner and Outer Hebrides. The locations mentioned are (in this order): the Cuillin Hills (on the Isle of Skye), Tummel and Loch Rannoch(both in Perthshire), Lochaber (a district in the western Scottish Highlands), Shiel (east of
Association for Scottish Literary Studies Research Book of the Year awards: "The Poems of William Dunbar", edited by Priscilla Bawcutt (1998); and Sorley MacLean's "Dàin do Eimhir", edited by Christopher Whyte (2002). In 2011, the ASLS's edition of Sorley MacLean's "An Cuilithionn/The Cuillin" was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year award. Also in 2011, along with VisitScotland and the University of Glasgow, the ASLS co-produced "Literary Scotland: A Traveller's Guide". In October 2011, this publication won the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Scotland Gold Award for Best Publication. Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) is