Walking with Cattle. In search of the last drovers of Uist

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Deals with cattle droving from the island of Uist in the Outer Hebrides to the Scottish Highland marts. In the Western Isles droving survived to the 1960s while it disappeared very much earlier in the rest of Scotland. Based on interviews with surviving drovers