Book description
These travel memoirs from Galloway span from between the war years
until current times and cover a wide spectrum of people and places in
this fascinating corner of Scotland. The subject matter spans
Galloway-Irish dialect, rock fishing, potato famine, harvesting,
Italian PoW's, woodcutting, poaching, the daily trains, summer fitba',
the village sports, the tinkers and inshore fishermen. MacIntosh uses
his great skill as a writer to bring to life aspects of rural life
which have gone and some which may yet disappear. The characters are
all unique and inhabit a marvellous patchwork of places and situations
which Macintosh is able to convey in a humorous yet never sentimental way.
Donald MacIntosh was born in 1927 and is the eldest son of a
Perthshire woodcutter and a mother from the Isle of Mull. He was brought
up near Garlieston in Wigtonshire and for 30 years worked in the
rainforests of West Africa. He contributes widely to national magazines
such as The Oldie.
