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73329 WILLIE GAVIN, CROFTER MAN


by David Kerr Cameron Sub-titled ‘A Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle’, here is the second part of a classic trilogy of rural life in Scotland’s North-east Lowlands. Through the eyes of Willie Gavin we experience the hardships of those who struggled to work a barren and inhospitable landscape, as well as the joys brought by events such as


weddings and festivals. It is a portrait of crofting life in the bitter landscapes of these Lowlands and the life of one crofter man in particular. Kerr Cameron paints a beautiful lyrical picture of how the crofter took on his thankless task of ‘stitching the quilt of the landscape’ with his beautiful and sensitive observation of the crofter’s work. 250pp in paperback, glossary and photos.


£8.99 NOW £4 73316 REEK ROON A CAMP


FIRE by Stanley Robertson Although many books have been written on the life of Gypsies and the Roma culture, very few have been written on Traveller culture. Despised by outsiders and mistrusted because of their private way of living and strange


languages, during the 1400s the King of Scotland put out a decree that all Gypsies should leave his kingdom or


face death. In ballads like ‘Macpherson’s Rant’ the poor unfortunate man was hanged because he was a Traveller. Men like Hamish Henderson came in amongst the Travelling people and became one of their champions and the author’s aunt was a wonderful ancient-ballad singer. This book is a journey of exploration to introduce the storytelling frequently performed by Travellers around the fire. 195pp, paperback, glossary. £9.99 NOW £4.50


71487 HIGHLANDERS: A History of the


Highland Clans by Fitzroy Maclean


In this extraordinary and romantic account of the Highlanders, from their earliest Celtic origins to the modern day, Sir Fitzroy MacLean - himself a Knight of the Thistle, Scotland’s highest chivalric order - sheds light on the character and motivation of the clans and brings vividly to life their highly dramatic stories. The reproduction of early Scottish artefacts is exquisite. The volume omits nothing, from Robert the Bruce and Bannockburn, through the Lords of the Isles and the Clan Wars, on to the early Stuarts, the doomed Mary Queen of Scots, the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century, the tragic 19th century Clearances which so nearly meant the end of Scotland, and so to the present day. 276 softback pages, 23cm x 29cm. Colour illus, Clan Glossary and Examples of Tartans. $35 NOW £12


73321 BACK O’ THE HILL:


Highland Yesterdays by John G. Gibson After years of living in Gaelic- speaking places in Cape Breton and north-eastern Nova Scotia in Canada, when he revisits the Craigag of his childhood, the author notices that language and consciousness are linked and that, even though he writes in English, thoughts and knowledge of the


Gaelic world are an important platform for considering the world. There are not many historical records to refer to but what the author has to offer is ‘an outsider’s imagining of an older consciousness, clad in knowledge gained mostly in and from Scotland and the Maritimes of Canada’. He examines the persistence of Gaelic thought and life. 271 nostalgic paperback pages, photos. £14.99 NOW £5


72619 LOCHS: Exploring Scotland’s


Freshwater Lochs by Julian Holland


The many freshwater lochs of Scotland are amongst the most beautiful destinations to be found anywhere in Britain. Each of these 30 lochs has its own unique personality: some are famed for their fish, others are rich in flora and fauna. This book gives readers an insight into their geology, historical background, myths, legends and natural history. Supported by location maps, the text includes details on walks, cycle rides, boat trips, angling, water sports, tourist info and accommodation. From remote Loch Coruisk, set in the Black Cuillins of Skye, via the prison of Mary Queen of Scots in the middle of Loch Leven, to the sinister depths of Loch Morar and the famous monster of Loch Ness, here is a loch to suit every taste. 160 pages 22cm by 30cm, beautiful photos and maps. £19.99 NOW £8


73298 25 WALKS IN AND AROUND GLASGOW by Alan Forbes


This new edition introduces 13 entirely new walks including the Greenock Cut, a wonderful mix of industrial history and rural scenery, the Corrie of Balglass, a dramatic and secluded corner of the Campsies, the Fourth and Clyde Canal, Doughnot Hill and Land Craigs and many others. Giving distance in miles (circular), start to finish with car parks and landmarks to spot, terrain be it boggy, forested and whether boots or waterproofs are needed, OS Explorer map reference, public transport, refreshments and toilets if any. Paperback, colour photos, 114pp. £9.99 NOW £3.50


73300 AGE OF THE CLANS: The Highlands


from Somerled to the Clearances by Robert Dodgshon


The period has been chosen as one of considerable continuity and deals with four main themes: the changing political relationships and tensions within the


There are six million shots in the game of pool.


- Albert Einstein


73914 C.L.R. JAMES: Cricket’s Philosopher King by Dave Benton


One of the most paradoxical characters of the 20th century, Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) was a leading black intellectual, a Marxist theorist of the first rank and one of the finest ever cricket writers, the author of 1963’s seminal “Beyond a Boundary”. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, home to the ground that features on every West


Indies Test Series, his was a very British-style education and he never forgot the importance of cricket and the set of values the game inculcated in him, even when being expelled from the USA during the McCarthy era for his Trotskyite views (indeed, James spent a week with Trotsky in 1939), or providing help and inspiration to the newly independent nations of Ghana and Tanzania in the 1960s. During his lifetime he was described as the “black Plato” and the “black Hegel” and his 1938 book about the 18th century slave revolt on Haiti, “The Black Jacobins” is regarded as one of the great historical works of the last century, but he was never comfortable with the concept of “Black Studies”. In this hugely enjoyable new biography Dave Benton shows how James, unlikely as it may seem, lived his life by the ethos of fair play and honour enshrined in the playing of cricket, hoping to “persuade Marxists of the joys of cricket, and followers of cricket the calibre of James and of James’ Marxism.” 202pp with excellent b/w photos, ranging from W.G. Grace, Garfield Sobers and Harold Larwood to Leon Trotsky and the Brixton Riots, the 1963 West Indies cricket team to President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. £16.99 NOW £6.50


73936 BYRNE’S TREASURY OF TRICK SHOTS IN POOL


AND BILLIARDS by Robert Byrne


Robert Byrne illustrates 350 shots with diagrams which will be new to all but the best-informed professionals and 100 have never been published anywhere before. With classic shots and their variations by such names as Jump-


Out-Of-The-Rack shot, the Scenic Railroad, the Machine Gun, Shoot-Off-Your-Mouth, the Turn-Left Foot Ball, the Central Cluster Railroad, Escape Over The Wall, the Relocation Kiss-Forward and The Triangular Draw, Michael Phelan’s Challenge, Professor McCleery’s Creep, Fred Herrmann’s Slow Collapse, the Paralysed


region, the clans - their composition, alliances, strongholds and patterns of display - the changes in settlement over time, and the economy of the Highlands and Islands and the Clearances. It is a story of feasting in great halls such as Dunvegan, of the galley fleets of the great lords. 64 paperback pages illus in colour and b/ w.


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73322 BOOK OF ST. ANDREWS: An Anthology edited by Robert Crawford


Arranged kaleidoscopically, here is Liz Lochhead on croquet, John Knox on military bombardment, Andrew Lang on Homer, Les Murray on Robert Fergusson, and contributors like J. M. Barrie, Benjamin Franklin, Seamus Heaney, A. L. Kennedy, R. L. Stevenson, and Susan Fellows on such topics as horizontal snow, caravans, martyrdom, seabirds, red gowns, love, professors and madness. Languages range from Greek to Gaelic and translations are provided in this writing from four millennia focussing on one of the world’s most famous small towns. 228pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


73395 VICTORIAN SCOTLAND


by James Crawford, Lesley


Ferguson and Kristina Watson For the very first time, RCAHMS - the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - is showcasing images from its National Collection to illustrate the landmark era of the


Victorian age, and this truly evocative book is the breath-taking result. From the pioneering work of photographers including John Forbes White, William Donaldson Clark, Thomas Annan and Harry Bedford Lemere, to never-before-seen excerpts from private family albums, this volume is a window on the lives of the generation who literally changed the world. There were huge advances in every field, from science and philosophy to industry, agriculture and architecture. By the end of the 19th century, Scotland in particular was a nation transformed. Glasgow had exploded into the second city of the Empire, the majestic Forth Bridge was celebrated as a wonder of the world, and railways had opened the remote Highlands to the new industries of leisure and tourism. But, for every grand museum or gothic-revival country house, tenements and slums rose in their thousands - overcrowded living for the vast army of workers that sustained the great Victorian machine. Many of the photos are impressively unique, viz the one in which a curious cast of characters is arranged on Ailsa Craig’s towering gas-powered north foghorn, which was built to support the oil-burning lighthouse designed by Thomas and David Stevenson between 1883 and 1886. 224 pages 30.5cm x 25cm just bursting with gorgeously clear b/w photos. £30 NOW £14


SPORT


Intermediary, the Fifteen-Ball Combination, Pocket Point Kick Shot, A Subtle Four-Ball Cluster, the Optical- Illusion Bank, the Sliding Triangle, Mike Massey’s Shuttle Shot, Mosconi’s Hustler Shot, Charlie Webster’s Houdini Shot, Fred Whalen’s Secret Shot, here are novelty shots, jump shots, shots with one ball, stroke shots, hot lips and magic fingers and showstoppers before we even get on to book two entitled Billiards. One per page, the huge diagram and simple instructions make it look so easy! Archive black and white photographs of Laurel & Hardy and other Hollywood greats are used for the chapter headings together with cartoons from Ripley’s Believe It or Not throughout the text. 292 huge pages on glossy paper, a reprint of the 1982 original in glamorous 2012 hardback. £18.99 NOW £7


71951 ABC OF FISHING: The Classic Guide to Coarse, Sea and Game Fishing edited by Colin Willock Fishing is the biggest participant sport in the country. Here are superbly detailed pictures and descriptions to delight his heart, from a tiny bleak to a heavy zander, a small grayling to a fat sea trout and a strangely named cuckoo wrasse to a gigantic, scary porbeagle shark, as well as species


which will be more familiar. 356 paperback pages with bright colour plates, line drawings, note on metrication, list of record fish, and fisheries index. £14.99 NOW £2.50


73162 BARRY SHEENE: Motorcycle Racing’s


Jet-Set Superstar by Michael Scott Barry Sheen’s exploits inspired generations of fans the world over, and his courage in the face of injury carried his fame still further. Over 34 action-packed years, he became an icon of achievement - this despite the fact that he suffered from asthma and was not naturally blessed with balance and co-ordination. Barry was an excellent helicopter pilot and liked to pilot members of his family to and from venues. Unfortunately, having started to smoke at the age of 11, he died young of cancer. 224 paperback pages 24.5cm by 24.5cm, colour photos. Race Results 1968-2002. £12.99 NOW £4


73645 THE ECCENTRIC ENTREPRENEUR: Sir Julien Cahn: Businessman, Philanthropist, Magician and Cricket-Lover by Miranda Rijks Sir Julien Cahn (1882- 1944) was a real one-off, one of the most successful and certainly the most eccentric businessmen of 1930s Britain. He established and funded the Sir Julien Cahn’s XI cricket team, an internationally renowned group of players who regularly bested national teams on lavish world tours, and he indulged his passion for stage magic by building an art deco theatre at his residence, Stanford Hall near Loughborough. His largesse was legendary, lending huge support to causes such as medicine (paediatrics and obstetrics in particular) and agriculture. He received a baronetcy in 1934 for his charitable works. 218pp Paperback, photos. £12.99 NOW £3.75


73506 NO BALLS AND GOOGLIES: A Cricket


Companion by Geoff Tibballs Skilful and graceful, technical and tactical, the intricacies and multi- faceted nature of cricket has enthralled and baffled spectators in equal measure over the centuries. Delving into its rich history, the book uncovers traditions, records, milestones and memorable events through an array of facts and


figures, anecdotes and curiosities. Did you know for example that Jasper Vinall became the first known cricketing fatality in 1624 in Sussex? 192pp, woodcut illus.


£9.99 NOW £5 72640 SURVIVE AND BEAT ANNOYING CHESS


OPENINGS: The Open Games by Eric Schiller and John Watson Schiller is widely considered one of the foremost chess analysts, writers and teachers. By following this publication, you will soon be able to overpower really annoying openings. Here is the artillery to defend yourself against even problematic openings such as: The Fried Liver Attack, the Latvian Gambit plus the sharp Classical (1.e4 e5) openings with comfort and ease. 266 paperback pages with index of opening moves and online contacts. £11.95 NOW £4


71327 JUDO: Martial Art Basics


by Roger Marks and Akinori Hosaka A big illustrated guide to over 40 techniques for practice packed with advice to learn the techniques as well as information on Judo philosophy and benefits, and what to expect inside the dojo. Includes warm-up exercises, breakfalls, throws, grappling, holds, groundwork, strangles and joint locks. Plus how to escape from side four-quartered hold, shoulder hold, broken upper-four- quartered hold, broken scarf hold, how to attack from between opponent’s legs, use the sliding lapel strangle and safety and training diary. Photos and line art. 112pp in softback. £8.99 NOW £1.75


71475 BASIC POOL: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide


by Arthur “Babe” Cranfield and Laurence May 80% of good pool is mental and 20% mechanical. Beginning with the basics of pool terminology and etiquette, we then learn how to choose and care for your first cue and how to select the best house cue on offer in the hall, stance and torso position, the bridge hand and the back hand, the stroke, aiming, cue ball control, moving the cue ball around the table, how to break up clusters of balls to your advantage and when not to and much more. Clear colour table. 210pp softback.


£12.95 NOW £2.25 TRANSPORT


It is better to travel well than to arrive. - Buddha


74222 BRADFORD TRANSPORT by David J. Croft


Although there were some rather ad-hoc horse bus services run by entrepreneurial stables from 1864, organised public transport in Bradford began in 1882, with the first regular horse-drawn tram services. Although regular and initially very popular, the


combination of their weight, the hills and crude braking systems led to a large number of serious and spectacular accidents, many of them fatal. In 1898 they began to be replaced by electric trams, although steam continued to work the streets until 1903. Electric trams dominated the first half of the 20th century, transporting Bradford folk through two wars, but during the inter-war years a competitor slowly began to creep in, eventually replacing the tram altogether in the early 1950s - the trolleybus. Bradford had one the country’s most impressive fleet of these pollution-free, reliable vehicles, and they held sway in the urban routes until the flexibility of motor buses and cheap oil of the 1960s saw them gradually replaced, the last service running in 1972 - just before the oil crisis! Local historian, author and photographer David Croft has assembled an unrivalled collection of photos of Bradford’s public transport and here presents over 200 of the best and most apposite to take the reader on a comprehensive tour of transportation past and present, prompting fond memories and acquainting youngsters with the city’s tremendous heritage. B/w photos with extensive captions plus full history of each type of vehicle. 128pp softback.


£12.99 NOW £5


72605 FLY NOW! A Colorful Story of Flight from Hot Air Balloon to the 777 ‘World Liner’ by Joanne Gernstein London


As early as 1914, the first scheduled airline carried passengers across Tampa Bay Florida, a small but critical step towards a huge international industry employing thousands of people and transporting billions. The social, economic and political impact has grown as geographical obstacles cease to exist. From the smallest baggage label to the massive nose section of a Boeing 747, readers will be able to re-live the compelling story of air travel. 192 paperback pages with dozens of rare and dramatic aeronautical posters in colour and b/w. £9.99 NOW £3.75


72481 TORNADO ADV by Peter Foster


Originally designed to intercept Soviet bombers striking from the East, the Panavia Tornado Air Defence Variant was conceived as a stop-gap, deriving from the hugely successful bomber type. It suffered in its early years from lack of agility and poor systems yet despite the fact it would never be comparable to a dog fighter, the advent of more sophisticated missiles and on-board systems gave it the option of when and how to fight, and turned this one-time lame duck into a high-value asset. With its first flight in 1979, this is a timely tribute and photographic study of the Tornado ADV published at the time its operations were ceasing in 2011. Colour and b/w photos. 120 page large softback. £19.99 NOW £3.50


74248 HOT AIR BALLOONS: History, Evolution and Great Adventures by Jean Becker, photography


by Daniela Comi and Roberto Magni We can quite safely bet that readers will never before have seen such incredible and eye-blinding photos as these. They record the history of flight by balloon. On November 21st, 1783, Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes, both Frenchmen, rose from the ground and travelled for about six miles on board the Montgolfier brothers’ balloon. It was an historic event. More than 200 years have passed since that mind- blowing venture. Flight by balloon is no longer as dangerous as it was in the 18th century, and the author insists that it is still the most pleasurable means of flying. Today, modern balloon pilots take us to another world, that of the big rallies like the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Here almost 800 aerostats take off every morning while the festival lasts. Intrepid balloon explorers like Bertrand Piccard and Steve Fosseta have used revolutionary methods to make round-the-world balloon journeys - hitherto the stuff of science fiction. In this mega-sized volume, readers will find not only a cool history of balloon flying, but also a riveting detailed explanation of how the whole process works, and sections exploring the major meetings all over the world. For us, the best chapter is on the ‘special shapes’ - there are balloons in the form of Michelin Man, horses, ducks, penguins, tortoises, a Coke bottle and even a bagpipe- playing Highlander! How do they get off the ground, let alone fly? Yet another book with which you will never want to part. 303 gigantic pages 36cm x 26cm in totally


bedazzling colour, with glossary.


£30 NOW £14


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