Dumfries and Galloway Biography and Autobiography

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    Burns-Lore Of Dumfries And Galloway - James A. Mackay - Paperback
    James A. McKay offers a glimpse of the last eight years of the life of Robert Burns, when he was resident at Ellisland and in Dumfries.
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    A Galloway Childhood - Ian Niall - Hardback
    Originally published in 1967, this memoir describes the author's upbringing on his grandparent's farm in Wigtownshire. This edition includes family photographs to help bring the world portrayed in the text to life.
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    A Galloway Glossary - W. A. D. Riach - Paperback
    Professor Alastair Riach is a native of Elgin, who studied for the ministry and served as a locum in the parish of Corsock in 1942. Almost 30 years later, he returned to Edinburgh from Newfoundland and decided to settle in Galloway.
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    The House Of Elrig - Gavin Maxwell - Paperback
    This is the personal story of Gavin Maxwell's boyhood, most of which he spent, in fact or in fancy, at the House of Elrig, a lonely, windswept house on the moorlands of Galloway. It covers his boyhood, public school education in England, and return to Scotland.
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    St Nynia - John MacQueen; Winifred MacQueen - Paperback
    St Nynia or Ninian is the earliest named Christian figure associated with modern Scotland. Over the years important archaeological discoveries have been made at Whithorn, his Galloway shrine. This is a study of the written record of the saint, a record which is as full, & as fascinating, as the archaeological.
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    Tales Of The Kirkcudbright Artists - Haig Gordon - Paperback
    This title features everything you need to know about the painters, sculptors, potters and craftworkers who made Kirkcudbright famous as an artists' colony. The author explains what attracted them to the town, and how they got on with the bemused locals.
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    An Unlikely Countess: Lily Budge And The 13th Earl Of Galloway - Louise Carpenter - Paperback
    Louise Carpenter examines the life of Lily Budge, Countess of Galloway. Lily was born into poverty in 1916, ran a kindergarten, a boarding house and found God before marrying in her 50s a man she thought was a tramp/monk but who was, in fact, Lord Garlies, the future 13th Earl of Galloway.
Last modified Monday 18 May 2009