Walking With Cattle

Walking With Cattle

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Williams, Terry J.
Birlinn Limited
EAN: 9780857909800
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“In careful prose, and with black and white photographs, [Williams] makes a fascinating way of life both grounded and heroic.” —TheScotsman Droving was once the lifeblood of Scotland’s rural economy, and for centuries Scotland’s glens and mountain passes were alive with thousands of cattle making their way to the market trysts of Crieff and Falkirk. With the Industrial Revolution, ships, railways, and eventually lorries took over the drovers’ trade, and by the early twentieth century, the age-old droving tradition was all but dead. Except, however, in the Western Isles, where droving on foot continued until the mid-1960s, when MacBrayne’s introduced a new generation of ferries capable of bringing livestock lorries to the islands. In this book, Terry J. Williams follows the route of the drovers and their cattle from the remote Atlantic coast of Uist to the Highland marts. Travelling by campervan and armed with a voice recorder, a collection of archive photographs, and a set of maps marked with the old market stances, she seeks out the last surviving drovers. The resulting narrative is an extraordinary insight into a lost world, told through the voices of the few remaining individuals who remember the days of walking with cattle.
EAN 9780857909800
ISBN 0857909800
Binding Ebook
Publisher Birlinn Limited
Publication date September 7, 2017
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Williams, Terry J.
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