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- catalog abstract ""One man's view of the land of plenty - its towns, its farms and crofts, its culture, its humour, its struggle to retain all that is unique in it." "Robert Smith has his roots in Buchan. His forbears worked the land from the Ythan Estuary to Bauff and the Deveron. Now, nearly a century and a half after the Rev. Dr John B. Pratt travelled round the area gathering material for his classic work on the North-east, this book takes a look at present-day Buchan." "We visit the 'new towns', following the Comyn tracks over the Muckle Causeway of Kininmonth, meeting the lairds in their great mansions, and taking Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'road to Meiklebogs'. We sniff the peat reek over Pitsligo, contemplating bothies and bothy lads, and going back to the farm where the author was made to h'yow neeps as a boy." "We hear about some wonderful Buchan characters, past and present - Patrick Ivanovitch, friend of the Tsar; Francie Marquis with his oxter pipes; the mason Laird of Delgatie; and Babbie Stewart and Peggy Clark, single-mindedly working their crofts on the Braes of Cloehforbie."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10250010.
- catalog coverage "Buchan (Scotland) Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Buchan (Scotland) History.".
- catalog coverage "Grampian (Scotland)".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""One man's view of the land of plenty - its towns, its farms and crofts, its culture, its humour, its struggle to retain all that is unique in it." "Robert Smith has his roots in Buchan. His forbears worked the land from the Ythan Estuary to Bauff and the Deveron. Now, nearly a century and a half after the Rev. Dr John B. Pratt travelled round the area gathering material for his classic work on the North-east, this book takes a look at present-day Buchan." "We visit the 'new towns', following the Comyn tracks over the Muckle Causeway of Kininmonth, meeting the lairds in their great mansions, and taking Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'road to Meiklebogs'. We sniff the peat reek over Pitsligo, contemplating bothies and bothy lads, and going back to the farm where the author was made to h'yow neeps as a boy." "We hear about some wonderful Buchan characters, past and present - Patrick Ivanovitch, friend of the Tsar; Francie Marquis with his oxter pipes; the mason Laird of Delgatie; and Babbie Stewart and Peggy Clark, single-mindedly working their crofts on the Braes of Cloehforbie."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 119) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 122 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0859764419 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Edinburgh : John Donald Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "Buchan (Scotland) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Buchan (Scotland) History.".
- catalog spatial "Grampian (Scotland)".
- catalog subject "941.2/35 21".
- catalog subject "DA880.B8 S65 1996".
- catalog subject "Smith, Robert, 1923- Journeys Scotland Buchan.".
- catalog subject "Smith, Robert, 1923- Travel Scotland Buchan.".
- catalog title "Buchan : land of plenty / Robert Smith.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".