The Wigtownshire Companion - Haig Gordon
Publication date 1 October 2008
218 pages
colour, black/white illustrations
Paperback
(ISBN 978-0-9553183-4-4) £14.99
Contents
The Wigtownshire Companion is history, geography, biography, literature and gossip all rolled into one!
If you want to know what has created the unique character of this county at Scotland's land's end, you will find it all gathered here into a single handy volume.
The information is presented in a way that is both practical and enjoyable.
In Part 1 every major town and village in the 'Shire' gets its own section explaining its development, pointing out nearby places of interest and profiling its outstanding personalities.
Part 2 fills in the background in a series of highly readable accounts of Wigtownshire's role in Scottish history, its long association with Ireland and its crucial contribution towards victory in the Second World War.
Some of the topics covered: prehistoric megaliths, Whithorn's 'cradle of Christianity', Arctic explorer John Ross, writer Gavin Maxwell, artist Oskar Kokoschka, the making of The Wicker Man, Wigtown Book Town, exotic Gulf Stream gardens.
see also The Kirkcudbrightshire Companion by the same author
