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This is the first history of the musical culture of the worldwide piping community.

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In 18th-century Scotland both folk and classical music flourished in a unique blend. A hundred-year burst of creative activity is described in this ground-breaking study, now with a new introduction.

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The only comprehensive book of piping in print, Roderick Cannon provides a great wealth of information for those lovers of the pipes.

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A rich and captivating insight into life in a Scottish farm town in the mid nineteenth century. Together with Willie Gavin, Crofter Man and The Cornkister Days, this volume forms a remarkable trilogy on life in rural Scotland.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.

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A description of the multiple strange, fascinating, and fun festivals celebrated across Scotland. It charts a year of madness which leads the author on a hilarious and insightful journey around Scotland's most bizarre and fantastic festivals that no one - whether visitor or native - should miss.
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Alexander Fenton is acknowledged as Scotland’s leading expert on rural life and offers his readers an improved version of the classic Scottish Country Life.

        

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Celebrating one of mankind's oldest pleasures, we are taken through a year in the life of Katherine Stewart's garden. The joy of nature has never sounded so rewarding.
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A portrait of crofting life in the bare and sometimes bitter landscape of Scotland’s North-east lowlands. The second part of Cameron’s trilogy of rural life.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.

    
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Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors’ lives - the clothes, cooking utensils, weapons, food and the implements for fishing, farming and building are all meticulously depicted and placed in historical context.

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Scottish Customs is a highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, drawn from a broad range of literary sources dating back to the 16th century.

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The Summer Walkers documents an archetypal and vanishing way of life.

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This wide-ranging volume considers Scotland’s domestic life by examining that variety and considering changes in the structures in which Scots have lived and the ways in which they have lived in those homes.

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