Lochnavando No More is completely original. No work of this kind has hitherto been undertaken on the archives of the Gordon Cumming family, and little enough has been written authoritatively on the history of agriculture in that part of Scotland. Nor is the book a dry treatise. Characters emerge: lairds, factors, ministers and ordinary farm people, the criminal and the unfortunate, individual men, women and children appear briefly but clearly, in trouble and happiness, in events both ordinary and extraordinary, to remind us that history is really a pattern of biographies, and that feelings and emotions ran as strong in the past as they do today.
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