Abstract
MR. SETON GORDON is one of the few men of education who have been content to live their life in the Highlands rather than earn what many would consider to be an easier and better living elsewhere. The result is that, being a life-long observer, he knows more about the natural history of a remote region than almost anyone else. He has preferred to diffuse his wide knowledge in the form of popular books rather than as systematic papers, a fact for which many general readers are undoubtedly thankful. We of a younger generation of workers may be sorry that he does not give us a compendium or source-book which he alone could write and which would preserve for us the great variety of knowledge which his sensitive, inquiring mind has gathered. Nevertheless, here is a book written graciously, one which in the opinion of the reviewer stands out as Seton Gordon's best.
A Highland Year
By Seton Gordon. Pp. 152 + 23 plates. (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers), Ltd., 1944.) 12s. 6d. net.
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DARLING, F. A Highland Year. Nature 156, 219–220 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156219a0
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