Walking with Cattle. In search of the last drovers of Uist
Details:
- Author(s) Williams, Terry J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2017
- Pages 160pp; illus
- Publisher Birlinn
- Place Published Edinburgh
Topics:
- Name Oral history
Countries:
Library:
- Name National Museum of Wales
- City Cardiff
- County South Glamorgan
- Country Wales
- Postcode CF10 3NP
- Visit National Museum of Wales's website
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Notes:
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