Even from a distance St. Andrews delights the visitor. It is a town for all seasons and all tastes. It is a town of renowned history. Scholars walk through quiet wynds where men-at-arms once raced in the fury of the Reformation. But St. Andrews is also a town for ordinary people to just enjoy.

St. Andrews, The Royal Burgh

Lorn Macintyre

Pitkin Pictorials

On the last day of March 1988, a tractor was out sowing the site where Ford were to have built a £40 million electronics plant. The fact that the machine was a Ford, and that the farmer had leased the field from the Scottish Development Agency at short notice said so much about the Dundee character. Here were hope and initiative out of disappointment. Dundonians do not like a vacuum. The barley will be harvested, and there is every confidence that the next crop on that extensive acreage will be microchips that will grow into just as many jobs as Ford promised.What has brought about this transformation of Dundee from the ragged urchin of Scotland's cities to the smart executive with a caseful of attractions and the determination to sell them? Discovery is the answer. When Captain Scott's polar vessel came up the Tay estuary to its berth after all those years, it brought back pride in Dundee's traditions. Wasn't this the city whose mills had put sails on the world's merchantmen and piled sacks in their holds?The lesson is there in Victoria Dock. Scott's turn-of-the-century ship was refitted for new explorations, so there is no reason why Dundee shouldn't be refurbished and readapted, the nimble fingers of the jute mill workers turning to whatever technology the world requires. And if it's muscle that's required, remember that Desperate Dan is a Dundonian.This book celebrates Dundee, old and new in photo and prose: its people, its buildings, its boats, its traditions, its transformations, its optimism.

Dundee, city of discovery

Travel

Europe

Alvie Publications

Empty footsteps: From the chronicles of Invernevis

BLACK ACE BOOKS

The Broken Lyre

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

<p>In this sequel to 'Tobermory Days', Lorn Macintyre continues to capture the essence of life in the Hebridean Islands.</p>

Tobermory Tales

Argyll Publishing

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