Abstract
IT is a relief in times of war and stress to turn for relaxation to books written of Nature, lofty and serene. “Highland Gamekeeper” brings to the mind happier days, for it is written by one whose whole life has been spent out of doors, studying wild birds and wild animals. The author comes of old Highland stock; his great–grandfather, Allan Macintyre, was Kintyre's last bard and foxhunter, and we are told that the immortal Gaelic poet, Donnchadh Bàn nan Oran, Duncan Ban Macintyre (who, as, is known, was a natural poet of the hills and no scholar), came to the author's ancestor Allan to have his poems written out.
Highland Gamekeeper
By Dugald Macintyre. Pp. 246 + 8 plates. (London: Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd., n.d.) 12s. 6d. net.
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GORDON, S. Highland Gamekeeper. Nature 148, 675–676 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148675a0
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