Strathalder
Subtitle: a Highland estate
By: Roderick Grant
Series: Reminiscence; Isis reminiscence series; Isis reminiscence series
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780753152416; 9780753152423
Subjects: Large type books; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Description and travel; Manners and customs; Travel
Description: "Based on hundreds of interviews with gardeners, gamekeepers, maids, governesses, lairds, chaffeurs, cooks and housekeepers. Roderick Grant creates a poignant and candid picture of a way of life which, although much changed, still survives in modern times. In addition to the harshness of work on the farms and the gradual transformation of the estate into a commercial business, we also learn much about the people themselves - their relationships with each other and those they worked for, and also their loyalties and disloyalties"--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: London: Gordon and Cremonesi, 1978.