Author: Bochel, Margaret M.
Title: Salt Herring on Saturday: The Fishertown of Nairn Last Century [Flashbacks Series].
Description: East Linton, Scotland Tuckwell Press / European Ethnological Research Centre / National Museums of Scotland, 2004. 1st ed. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, black & white photos, minimal edgewear. 95 pp. About the fisher folk of Nairn in the 1920s and 1930s. They had a distinctive way of live, being to some extent detached from the rest of the townspeople by the nature of their exacting trade. They lived like a large family, observing a code of behaviour and set of customs and values prescribed by their seagoing forebears and handed down through generations. The author belongs to a well-known Fishertown of Nairn family. ISBN: 1862322465

Keywords: history, britain, celtic, scotland 1862322465


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