One Collector's Voice (2 Viewers)

[OzDigger]

Thanks Ozdigger-I feel like I've been patted on the back and handed a hanky Now as for turning out so bad...that recalls another book to mind "No Great Mischief" by Alistair Macleod...if it weren't for the tiny battle of the snow shoes diorama I've stationed in front of my copy on the bookshelf..3 Tommy Atkins Rogers' Rangers vs. 1 Frenchman & a Mignot flat Winter Fir...Excellent book though. ob

No worries ob, as Alistair Macleod once said "all of us are better when we're loved."

 

[Harrytheheid]

Nothing here I can disagree with Somehow ,though ,you've reminded me of The Young Montrose & Montrose:The Captain General by Nigel Tranter (Thanks again ,Heid)that I finished(in tears) last week,with Montrose patiently over and over(including to Charles 1) explaining how Scotland without an Ard Righ (High King) over all the little kings;Marquis,Earls,Barons et.al. was lost.The High King of Scots was an essential element of the Clan Society,had been for well over a millenia,and the want of an Ard Righ may be said to have been the beginning of the unravelling of Gaelic Scotland.ob

OB,
See if you can get hold of "Montrose" by JOHN BUCHAN.
Exceptional book and a fascinating period of time in Scotland's story.
Shame about Patrick Gordon shuffling off this mortal coil at the end of a rope. I've alway's thought his life story would make a great movie.
No doubt whatsoever that the death of the Master of Gordon spelt the beginning of the end for "The Year of Miracles".
H

 

[Oldboy]

Thank you,Heid for the Buchan lead,it IS a fascinating period in history.Can't help wondering if it mightn't appeal to Ozdigger,as religion was so central a theme,"Jesus and no Quarter!"indeed.On a related note,I've begun reading "The Flight of the Heron" book 1 of D.K. Broster's Jacobite trilogy,and ran across this amusing quote " 'Ah,not at all,'replied Miss Cameron composedly.'The MacDonalds of the mainland and most of the Frasers indeed are Papists,but we Camerons are Episcopalians,and so are our neighbours,the Stewarts of Appin.' "ob