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summer walkers

travelling people and pearl-fishers in the Highlands of Scotland

by Timothy Neat

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Published by Canongate Books in Edinburgh, Scotland .
Written in

    Places:
  • Highlands (Scotland),
  • Scotland,
  • Highlands
    • Subjects:
    • Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people) -- Biography.,
    • Pearl divers -- Scotland -- Highlands -- Biography.,
    • Highlands (Scotland) -- Social life and customs.,
    • Highlands (Scotland) -- Biography.

    • Edition Notes

      StatementTimothy Neat.
      GenreBiography.
      Classifications
      LC ClassificationsDA880.H6 N43 1997
      The Physical Object
      Paginationix, 230 p. :
      Number of Pages230
      ID Numbers
      Open LibraryOL6822429M
      ISBN 100862415764
      LC Control Number00303170

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The Summer Walkers is a timeless treasure and an intriguing read for Scots and those who love Scotland. It is a brilliant look into the lives of Scotland's indigenous Travelling People and Pearl-Fishers. It contains priceless photos and takes the reader back to the time when life was hard and Travellers (not Gypsies) were welcomed into homes /5(19).

A beautiful book. An invaluable treasure. From The Summer Walkers: Travelling People and Pearl-Fishers in the Highlands of Scotland by Timothy Neat. Nineteen fifty seven was a summer with a good deal of sunshine.

We had wonderful times. I had the Landrover, I could drive where I pleased but I enjoyed joining in, working with the horses, putting up the big bow /5. The Summer Walkers documents an archetypal and vanishing way of life. About the Author. Timothy Neat is a film-maker, writer, and art historian.

His film, The Tree of Liberty was Best Documentary at the Celtic International Film and Television Festival. He is the author of several books including The Voice of the Bard with John MacInnes, When I /5(19).

The Summer Walkers is the name the crofters of Scotland’s North-west Highlands gave the Travelling People – the inerrant tinsmiths, horse-dealers, hawkers and pearl-fishers who made their living ‘on the road’. These people are not gypsies – they are indigenous Gaelic speaking Highlanders who are heirs to a vital and ancient culture.

This book documents [ ]. The Summer Walkers are the pearl-fishers, tinkers, hawkers and horse-dealers of the North-West Highlands in Scotland.

These travellers are not gypsies. They are indigenous, Gaelic-speaking nomads with a particular moral code. They are perhaps one of Europe's last nomadic people whose story will have a tremendous significance for social history.

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