| Title:
Around The Orkney Peat Fires – Short Stories by W.R. Mackintosh |
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Description:
Around the Orkney Peat Fires is packed with easy-to-read, delightful short stories which were once told around the smoking fires on a dark, coorse Orcadian night before television. It first appeared in serial form over one hundred years ago published in The Orcadian newspaper. It was highly popular with the readers and was later published as a book which has been sold out many times, it is a classic which tells the tales of this northern Scottish island.
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| Author:
W.R. Mackintosh who compiled the short stories came from Ayrshire. He was an accomplished journalist who came to Orkney to work on the Orcadian and subsequently married Elizabeth Anderson, a daughter of the then owner. He eventually took over the business in 1895 and subsequently published a number of Orkney books. |
| Binding:
Softcover. |
| Date
Published:
First published- Unknown |
Edition:
This
edition 1999 - ninth edition |
| Jacket
Condition: Fine condition with soft illustrated pictured cover. Has original 1999 price of £11.99 |
| Book
Condition:
Fine condition containing 230 pages, several of which contain black & white illustrations |
| Publisher:
The Orcadian Ltd, Kirkwall. |
| ISBN:
1-902957-01-6 |
| Size
& Weight: 21.2 cm x 14 cm (H x W). 1.6 cm thick. |
