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Edited and introductions by Roderick Watson
John Muir lived, as he put it, 'in an infinite storm of beauty.' 'No other writer is so ceaselessly astonished by the natural world, or communicates that astonishment more urgently., (Robert Macfarlane)
Set against the religious struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland, with Montrose for the king against a convenanted kirk, John Buchan's Witch Wood is a gripping atmospheric tale in the spirit of Stevenson and Neil Munro. As a moderate Presbyterian minister, young David Sempill disputes with the extremists of his faith.
Edward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to theauthor's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer andMP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium ofrespectability. In The Power House he is forced by event and accident to see civilisation as a thin veneer over the human jungle;
Three novels by George Friel
Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures.
The complete works of Robert Burns
Presents four different accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s. This title tells a story of how its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl.
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