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

Foreword by Tom Pow 1 A Nyatterin' o' Nyaffs 2 The Cruggleton Rocks 3 The Gentle Art of Crow Fishing 4 The Secret Life of Ditches 5 Salt Winds 6 Arcadian Fields 7 The Woodmen 8 Waifs in the Wilderness 9 Prisoners at Large 10 Commission Capers 11 The Milestone Inspectors 12 Gentlemen of the Shadows 13 The Midnight Grocer 14 The Worthies 15 The Sporting Life 16 Football Crazy 17 The Lum Cat 18 Bullets and the Paddy 19 Doing Porridge in Africa and Galloway 20 Spectral Woods