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Title: Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People
Author: John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir)
Year of Publication: 1899 (19th century)
Type: Collection
Genre: Historical Poem
Plot Summary: An early collection, set mainly in the area of the Upper Tweed and Tweedsmuir, the entries concern the lives, opinions, strengths and foibles of the Borders drovers and shepherds with whom Buchan had become familiar in his travels. In ‘Politics and the Mayfly’, the fictional town of Gledsmuir is based on Broughton
Publisher: John Lane: The Bodley Head
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Home | Title detail page
Title: Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People
Author: John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir)
Year of Publication: 1899 (19th century)
Type: Collection
Genre: Historical Poem
Plot Summary: An early collection, set mainly in the area of the Upper Tweed and Tweedsmuir, the entries concern the lives, opinions, strengths and foibles of the Borders drovers and shepherds with whom Buchan had become familiar in his travels. In ‘Politics and the Mayfly’, the fictional town of Gledsmuir is based on Broughton
Publisher: John Lane: The Bodley Head
SITEMAP | LINKS | TERMS & CONDITIONS | © Edinburgh Film Focus 2009