The Cornkister Days: A Portrait of a Land and its Rituals

by David Kerr Cameron

This work recaptures the days of the Clydesdale horse and the hired man, the "old speak", the cottar and the crofter.

1 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

He may have spent most of his life as a journalist in London, but David Kerr Cameron never forgot the rigours of farming life in his native Aberdeenshire, which he wrote about with un-sentimental vividness in his three best-loved and award-winning books. The Ballad and the Plough (1978), Willie Gavin, Crofter Man (1980), and The Cornkister Days (1984), all of which won Scottish Arts Council Awards, gave the social history of the North-East a readability that drew comparisons with the work of the late John Prebble.

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