Paperback. Pub Date: 2000 Pages: 320 in Publisher: Mainstream Publishing In this collection of fifty-one tales from the land of galloway.Alan Temperley pays tribute to the great Scottish tradition of storytelling.The tales are wide-ranging: heros . ghosts and solway smugglers; witches. martyrs.mermaids and fairies; reivers.monsters and colourful rogues. Here are Billy Marshall.King of the tinklers; Sawney Bean.the murderouscannibal; young Robert the ube on the run in the heather; Trost. last of the Picts.who kept the secret of heather ale; the legend of Mons Meg; Claverhouse and Lagg.persecutors of the Covenanters; the famous poterguist of Rerrick; and many more. Simply told and unadorned.the stories bear the flavour of the region-mountain and forest.silver rivers and lochs.the wild Solway Firth.and some of the most beautiful rolling countryside in itain. Origionally these t...