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In
Search of Burningbush
A deeply moving true-life tale of courage, wisdom, and friendship
between two men united by their love of golf. Critically
acclaimed In Search of Burningbush is a beautifully written
true-life story of an unlikely friendship between two men
with nothing in common except a consuming and abiding passion
for the links. Michael, a successful young journalist, and
Don, a middle-aged card dealer with brittle-bone disease,
go to Scotland in search of the mystical course “Burningbush.”
As Don struggles with his physical challenges, Michael struggles
to keep the game, and life, in perspective.
On
the Crofter's Trail: In Search of the Clearance Highlanders
In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts, once the mainstay
of Highland life in Scotland, were swept away as the land
was put over to sheep grazing. The agony of the Clearances
and the crofters' epic migration to Canada is the subject
of this book. For several generations the people of the Highlands
and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by landowners
in the Clearances. Many fled to Nova Scotia and beyond. The
book's author set out to discover how many of their stories
survive in the memories of their descendants. He travelled
through 21 islands in Scotland and Canada, many thousands
of miles of moor and glen, and the book presents the words
of men and women of both countries as they recount the suffering
of their forbears. Search Scotland.
In
Search of Scotland
Looking to close a travel writing gap of over a hundred years,
H. V. Morton goes In Search Of Sscotland, a land to which
he is a complete stranger. A characteristically engaging adventure
in a landscape at turns enchanted and without mercy. Amongst
many entertaining encounters, he describes a sincere Scottish
breakfast served beneath a portrait of Queen Victoria, sings
Jacobite rebel songs late into the night at a hotel in Fort
Augustus and comes across the most grotesque signpost in the
British Isles: The Village of Glencoe Scene of The Famous
Massacre Teas and Refreshments, Tobacco and Cigarettes, Anecdotal,
leisurely, full of character and event, insight and information,
this is travel writing of the very highest order. Search Scotland.
