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Many thanks to my wife for helping me along the way. Thanks to Jake King for telling me about an alternative version of the Glen Dochart topo-mnemonic; Neil MacGregor for stories about his own field research and insights into Sorley Maclean’s work; Magnus Course for ethnographic references; Robert Macfarlane for recommending Nan Shepherd’s writing; Ken Wardrop for drawing my attention to the song, Tha Sìor Chaoineadh am Beinn Dóbhrain; Finlay MacLeod for informing me about the older structures of pìobaireachd; Dairmid Gunn for information about his Uncle Neil’s knowledge of Gaelic and permission to use his work; Donald Smith of Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland, and the staff at Whittles Publishing, the Dunbeath Heritage Centre, the University of Edinburgh Library and the National Library of Scotland for help and encouragement. I am grateful to Meg Bateman, Ronald Black, Aonghas MacNeacail, Donald Meek, Pat Menzies and Wilson McLeod for permitting me to quote from their work. Carcanet, Canongate and Faber & Faber are to be thanked for giving copyright consent to use the work of Sorley MacLean, Robert Macfarlane, Nan Shepherd and T. S. Eliot respectively.

The writing of this book has been supported by research leave and funding from the University of Edinburgh.

All drawings and photographs are by the author.