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PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781841589640

RRP: £14.99

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 17, 2011

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Lost Deeside

Dan MacCannell

In addition to physical things, he also considers much else that has been ‘lost’ from the history, landscape and collective memory of the area – such as people who played an important part in its history; the local Gaelic of the area which has now died out; the wolf, which lived freely there until the 1680s; and the ways of life of past generations of Deeside people. The result is a vivid and stimulating insight into the way Deeside has changed over many centuries.

Dan MacCannell

Daniel MacCannell, a graduate of Aberdeen University and UCLA’s MFA-Screenwriting program, is a widely published non-fiction writer who has received the Jack Nicholson prize and been nominated for the Fotokem Maverick Award for his fictional work. He edited the highly acclaimed book ‘The Lost City: Old Aberdeen’, also published by Birlinn.

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