Sir Walter Scott authored The Two Drovers, though I have yet to read that one. The Kings House being a place important not only to drovers and travelers of all kind, its been bloodied by military history and mythologised in the fictions of the Scotland’s greatest writers: Robert Louis Stevenson’s David Balfour of Kidnapped fame and Neil Munro’s John Splendid both tramped the treacherous wastes of Rannoch Moor. I have known of it for I guess thirty years and earlier this summer finding myself trekking across Scotland on a coast to coast hike from Oban in the north- west to Stonehaven on the eastern seaboard, and camping by The Kings House Hotel in the lashed wildness of Glencoe, I decided to buy a copy. In the year of my birth, 1946 A.R.B.Haldane was working on the research that ended in the publication of this important book.
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