ARGYLL - The Enduring Heartland

This extraordinary work was first published in 1977 and quickly achieved classic status.Argyll: The Enduring Heartland had a way of becoming unobtainable. In most countries, it is the mediocre writing which vanishes; in Scotland, for some reason, it is often the important books (like the novels of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, out of print for decades at a time) which turn into rare samizdat-like objects, passed from hand to hand in homemade polythene covers. First published in 1977, The Enduring Heartland sold out long before the demand for it was satisfied; printed again in 1995 after years of clamour and entreaty, the fresh edition in turn was snatched up so rapidly that once more the book became something to be borrowed from a friend, or to be waited for in a long list of applicants to lending libraries. The lack of Marion can never be made good. But the lack of her book can be filled, and it is a privilege and delight to welcome it once more in its third appearance.

Author: Marion Campbell
Publisher: House of Lochar
Extra Details: Pictorial Card Covers, 224 Pages,