A passionate evocation of a vanishing way of life in the Scottish Highlands, "Strathalder", when first published in hardcover, achieved critical acclaim both in Britain and the USA. Based on hundreds of interviews with gardeners, gamekeepers, maids, governesses, lairds, chauffeurs, cooks, and housekeepers, it is a portrait of the Scottish country estate in its heyday in the 1920s and as it is today.
Autorentext
Roderick Grant was born in Forres, Morayshire, in 1941, where he attended the local academy. He has worked as a forestry worker, a journalist, a newspaper editor, a television presenter, a radio broadcaster, a bookshop manager and a postman. He has been published in both Britain and the USA.
Zusammenfassung
A passionate evocation of a vanishing way of life in the Scottish Highlands, Strathalder, when first published in hardcover, achieved critical acclaim both in Britain and the USA. Based on hundreds of interviews with gardeners, gamekeepers, maids, governesses, lairds, chauffeurs, cooks, and housekeepers, it is a portrait of the Scottish country estate in its heyday in the 1920s and as it is today.
Titel
Strathalder
Untertitel
A Highland Estate
Autor
EAN
9780857906854
ISBN
978-0-85790-685-4
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
15.06.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
3.22 MB
Anzahl Seiten
208
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch
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