The Dumfriesshire Companion - Haig Gordon

Publication date 1 May 2009

218 pages
colour, black/white illustrations

Paperback
(ISBN 9780955318399)

£14.99

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The Dumfriesshire Companion distils into one handy volume all you need to know about the places, the personalities, the history and the heritage of the frontier county where Robert the Bruce declared war on the Auld Enemy, Robert Burns wrote ‘Tam o’ Shanter’, Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented the bicycle and Thomas Telford re-invented the bridge.

It was also here that Thomas Carlyle got his gift of the gab, J M Barrie got his inspiration for ‘Peter Pan’ and Hugh MacDiarmid got his dander up for the launch of a literary revolution.

The book profiles all the world-famous names associated with Dumfriesshire along with a host of other kenspeckle characters, including: the most roguish of the cross-border reivers; the founder of the Bank of England; the model for ‘Annie Laurie’; the doctor who vetted Catherine the Great’s lovers; and the louche laird who became Oscar Wilde’s very own ‘Queen of the South’!

see also The Kirkcudbrightshire Companion and The Wigtownshire Companion by the same author.