Download e-book for kindle: Seton Gordon: The Life and Times of a Highland Gentleman by Raymond Eagle

Seton Gordon used to be born in 1886 into an Aberdeenshire relations and was once to stay to the age of ninety one. In that point his existence spanned probably the most momentous adjustments in civilisation and but his travels hardly took him clear of Scotland for lengthy. He committed his lifestyles to traditional historical past and in his understanding of our surroundings he was once sooner than his time.He wore the kilt as daily gown and entered collage in 1908 to take a level in common sciences at Exeter university, Oxford. while there he befriended the Prince of Wales, who was once to correspond with him after he left collage. In later existence he additionally corresponded with Ramsay MacDonald.He spent hours roaming the hills of Deeside and the Cairgorm plateau whereas looking at nature and may maintain awesome hardships in pursuit of his favorite chook, the golden eagle. He grew to become engaged to Audrey Pease in 1915 and after marriage, they moved to the Isle of Skye the place they settled in Trotternish and the place he started to write on all elements of Highland and Hebridean lifestyles. through the years he produced prose which controlled to put guy in his right context within the setting, and those books encouraged 1000s to appear to the hills and corries looking for Scotland's desolate tract areas.His airy descriptions of the Western Isles, even if in sunlight or in rain, a however the genuine contribution of include probably his such a lot finely saw items however the actual contribution of his 28 books and various articles and papers was once to the sum of information at the ordinary historical past of the Highlands and Islands. he'll be remembered by way of all who knew him, learn him and heard him communicate as one of many final nice Highland gentlemen.Raymond Eagle first met Seton Gordon in Skye in 1949 and was once to correspond with him for a couple of years. After Eagle moved to Vancouver in 1967, an opportunity stumble upon led him to satisfy Seton's son, Alasdair who had lived within the urban for numerous years. With Alasdair's aid, Eagle got down to write this biography which used to be released in print layout in 1990. this can be a whole revised publication version with various color and black and white illustrations.