Scottish Reminiscences

A geologist collects people as well as rocks. Geikie spent fifty years walking Scotland with a hammer, and this is what he heard along the way: the ministers, the crofters, the shepherds, the ferrymen, the dialects, the courtesies and the funerals, and the old Highland and Lowland life quietly dying out around him. The best kind of memoir, made almost entirely of other people.