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Thistle soup : a ladleful of Scottish life
Title:
Thistle soup : a ladleful of Scottish life
Author:
Kerr, Peter, 1940-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Lyons Press edition.
Publication Information:
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, 2004.

©2002
Physical Description:
242 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Originally published: Chichester, U.K. : Summersdale Publishers, c2002.
Language:
English
Contents:
Leaning against the wind -- Gas masks, two Romeos, and a ghost -- The hen's march to the midden -- Matters of life and death -- The devil of Monument Hill -- The noisy passing of a quiet way of life -- A peedie piece o' peace -- Into the realm of the gypsy king -- Bending with the rising winds of change -- Bagpipes, boogie, and bullock breath -- Good fortune found, a treasure lost -- Tying knots and cutting ties -- From bagpipes to the Beatles and back again -- Going home -- Dame Fortune is a transvestite -- Balancing the scales of fate -- Of goblins, ghosts, and goodbyes.
ISBN:
9781592283781
Format :
Book