Books by Angus Martin

The story of those who have made whisky in Campbeltown will delight both malt whisky enthusiasts and local historians who seek beyond superficiality and myth.

In this thematic sequence of poems, the Kintyre poet and historian Angus Martin evokes the spectacular Atlantic coast between Machrihanish and the Mull of Kintyre, a landscape he has explored since boyhood.

Three summers - and many journeys by bicycle and on foot - provide the inspiration behind 'A Summer in Kintyre' (2014), 'Another Summer in Kintyre: Reflections on a 2014 Diary' (2015), and now this concluding account of the author's close engagement with the places, people and nature in his life.

In the style and character of its predecessor, 'A Summer in Kintyre', yet rich in differences. The narrative spans April to September 2014, but real time is irrelevant, as the author dips into history and prehistory, evoking people and events associated with the places he visits by bicycle and on foot. 50 black and white illustrations.

In the idyllic summer of 2013 in Kintyre, the author's journeys by bicycle and on foot were also 'a journey through landscapes of memory and emotion'. The story begins in the rugged south-west, at the Inneans and Largiebaan, and ends in the north-east, at a little loch near Tarbert, with people, places and happenings a-plenty in between.

When it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth completed a trilogy on the history and culture of the author's native Kintyre.

This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in Western Scotland, has become a classic since its original publication in 1984. It is reprinted here with a new Introduction by the author, a native of Kintyre who knows its geography intimately.

For 20 years historian and poet Angus Martin has walked the hills and shores of his native Kintyre and recorded his experiences as 'By Hill and Shore', in Kintyre Magazine. This book is a selection - a rich evocation of places, people, and creatures great and small - with extra articles and 90 illustrations, mostly the author's own photographs.

The House of Argyll acquired its Kintyre lands in 1607 and sold them in 1956. During that period, the Campbells exerted a powerful influence in Kintyre, through politics, religion, and agrarian reform. The core of this book is the 5th Duke of Argyll's estate instructions to his Kintyre chamberlain, or manager, from 1785 to 1805. Through these annual directions, and the chamberlain's responses, emerge the complex workings of a West Highland estate. Kintyre historian Angus Martin has taken the late Eric R. Cregeen's hitherto unpublished transcript of the instructions and illuminated them with a lengthy series of commentaries, explaining agricultural practices, social customs and cultural nuances, and providing biographical sketches of the chief personalities of the time. The study is informatively introduced by both Cregeen and Martin, enhanced by 72 illustrations, ranging from eighteenth century portraits to present-day photographs, contains a reproduction of George Langlands' celebrated 1801 map of Kintyre, and is fully furnished with references, notes and index.