People of the Wild Cat Country: Tales from Badenoch and Strathspey

by Sandra Macpherson

Paperback, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

DA880.H6 G43

Publication

Birlinn Ltd (2006), Edition: Ill, Paperback, 224 pages

Description

In "A Strange and Wild Place", Sandra MacPherson recorded her extraordinary life as a Highland chieftain's wife on Glentruim estate, weaving her own story with tales of infamous Macphersons of old. In her latest book, she broadens her horizons to include the whole of Badenoch and Strathspey, introducing a multitude of old and new tales from the area, as well as providing more personal recollections of her experiences there. In addition to stories featuring members of her own MacPherson clan, she also includes tales of love, battle, adventure, intrigue, danger and dark secrets, as well as chilling accounts of witchcraft, the supernatural and the unexplained. Together, these stories paint a vivid picture of this very special corner of the Highlands - not only of its richly varied landscape made up of farmland, forest and stark, imposing mountains, but also of the people who have lived and loved there through the centuries, and of the changes over time that have inevitably affected and continue to mould their lives.… (more)

Language

ISBN

1841584487 / 9781841584485

User reviews

LibraryThing member emmakendon
Difficult to know what to make of it really - a bit like Relative Merits in my own family. Sandra Macpherson is the widow of a clan chieftain and she's collected stories and her own memories of being the lady of the estate at Glentruim. Her actual stories are fairly interesting and her love of the
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people around her touching, but she sounds as though she's feeling what she ought to feel and of course she's steeped in posh people shooting things as though it's necessary, so you have to grit your teeth while you read. Quite how she manages to believe the fella who told her that walking along with a live bullet in your gun chamber is 99.9% safe is a mystery. Has she been brainwashed by the silly armed men in her life?! As for ending passages with a smug sigh and an exclamation mark - that wears you down. But there are some good superstition stories in there - those are probably the best of the book. For me, an insight into how these folk think. Sadly, it's just as you'd expect they think!
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Physical description

224 p.; 8.35 inches

Pages

224
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