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Zusatztext
- In this collection of fifty-one tales from the land of galloway, Alan Temperley pays tribute to the great Scottish tradition of storytelling. The tales are wide-ranging: heros, ghosts and solway smugglers; witches, martyrs, mermaids and fairies; reivers, monsters and colourful rogues. Here are Billy Marshall, King of the tinklers; Sawney Bean, the murderous cannibal; young Robert the Brube on the run in the heather; Trost, last of the Picts, who kept the secret of heather ale; the legend of Mons Meg; Claverhouse and Lagg, persecutors of the Covenanters; the famous poterguist of Rerrick; and many more.
  Simply told and unadorned, the stories bear the flavour of the region mountain and forest, silver rivers and lochs, the wild Solway Firth, and some of the most beautiful rolling countryside in Britain. Originally these traditional tales ranging from rustic comedy to horrific murder were told in crofts and rural cottages. They grew naturally out of the rich past and the land and the lives of the people wonderful stories. And they are still as alive today as when they were first told.
Kurztext
- In this collection of fifty-one tales from the land of galloway, Alan Temperley pays tribute to the great Scottish tradition of storytelling. The tales are wide-ranging: heros, ghosts and solway smugglers; witches, martyrs, mermaids and fairies; reivers, monsters and colourful rogues. Here are Billy Marshall, King of the tinklers; Sawney Bean, the murderous cannibal; young Robert the Brube on the run in the heather; Trost, last of the Picts, who kept the secret of heather ale; the legend of Mons Meg; Claverhouse and Lagg, persecutors of the Covenanters; the famous poterguist of Rerrick; and many more. Simply told and unadorned, the stories bear the flavour of the region mountain and forest, silver rivers and lochs, the wild Solway Firth, and some of the most beautiful rolling countryside in Britain. Originally these traditional tales ranging from rustic comedy to horrific murder were told in crofts and rural cottages. They grew naturally out of the rich past and the land and the lives of the people wonderful stories. And they are still as alive today as when they were first told.
Autorenportrait
- Alan Temperley was born in Sunderland and educated at the Bede Grammar School. Aged sixteen he joined the Merchant Navy and travelled the world as a cadet with the Shaw Savill Line. After qualifying as a deck officer he left the sea and spent two years in the RAF. Following this and a crash A Level course at Sunderland Technical College, he spent four years studying at Manchester and Edinburgh Universities and became a teacher of English in Bettyhill on the remote north coast of Sutherland.Here he began writing, gaining first prize in national competitions for poetry and the short story. Several of his full-length works are set here, starting withTales of the North Coastand a novel,Murdos War. He enjoyed teaching and life in the north, but after nine years felt he was becoming stale and returned to sea. Briefly he sailed as a trawlerman and able seaman on the oil rig supply boats, then went back deep-sea with Shaw Savill as a deck officer. This experience provided him with material for his most recent novelDeck Boy(his only self-published work).Alan has published a dozen full-length books. His work has won awards, been televised, and widely translated.In recent years he has lived in south-west Scotland with his good friend Jean Slaven. He has one son, Andrew, a successful young solicitor, and two grand-daughters. He enjoys the open air and wildlife, the arts, good TV, and spends much time in coffee shops.

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