This book is the story of a remarkable quest;
a search for the history behind a faded photograph album discovered
in a second-hand bookshop in Stockport in 1986.
Within its pages lay the chronicle of a tour
made around Scotland over a century ago; images of a now vanished
world peopled by busy Victorian businessmen, Highland soldiers,
tinsmiths, fishermen, crofters, washerwomen and impoverished children.
Yet the most startling revelations were to be attached to the
figures themselves, brief moments transfixed in a photographic
image have ensured for them an immortality. Caught on the very
threshold of their disappearance have been names, dates and details
about the lives of those whose hauntingly evocative faces peer
at us from these pages.
This painstaking reconstruction marks the determined pursuit
by one man of what must rank as one of the finest photographic
records of a Victorian Highland Tour.
Publisher: Maclean Press
ISBN: 0 9516022 1 7
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