Seton Gordon was only a boy when he began exploring the Cairngorms, fascinated by its wildlife and seeking to photograph all he saw - he later became a pioneer naturalist, photographer and folklorist. He wrote about the land that is ScotLAND, her flora and fauna, her people, her spirits, her often violent past. He took the earliest pictures of golden eagles at their eyries and throughout the first half of the 20th century came to know Scotland's remotest corners, amassing a unique photographic record, recording the changing social life of the islands, collecting a mass of folklore and historical stories, lecturing and writing both for regular publications and in 27 books. pinewoods, to eyries, to the corries of the Cairngorms, we follow him trying to recreate the greenshank's song on his bagpipe chanter; and see him holding a snowball windward of a nesting dotterel to cool its panting. Welcomed in croft or palace, a keen piper, inevitably dressed in kilt and bunnet, Seton Gordon was one of the age's great characters. his great versatility. The author, himself a Scottish outdoors enthusiast and well-known author, has been a lifelong admirer of Seton Gordon and his books and has created a book to treasure.
Seton Gordon was a pioneering naturalist, photographer and writer - an ecologist before the word was coined. He was a prolific author with 27 books to his name, the first appearing when he was just eighteen. He wrote with a revelational wonder and freshness, crafting descriptions that could only be written by someone intimately at home in the hills with their fauna and flora, geology and landscape, Gaelic culture, history and folklore. Seton Gordon lived to a great age but the Cairngorms were his first love, the place he returned to many times throughout his life and his writing. In this companion volume to Seton Gordon's Scotland Hamish Brown has gathered an engaging selection from Seton Gordon's extensive writings about these hills, much of which comes from books other than the well-known The Cairngorms Hills of Scotland (1925). Seton Gordon's Cairngorms encapsulates the beauty and majesty of these hills - with descriptions of hill days throughout the seasons - now much changed - and intimate descriptions of wildlife. Hamish Brown has garnered a collection of gems enhanced by archive photographs to create the essential distillation of Seton Gordon's Cairngorms.
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