Product Description

This title comprises the memoirs of Betsy Whyte, a traveller providing a story of a largely vanished way of life. She describes the hardship and intolerance suffered by travelling people and paints a portrait of their way of life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74378 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

SCOTS MAGAZINE
`A beautiful book, shining with honesty. A minor classic'

OBSERVER
`Observant, unsentimental'

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
`She writes with a wind on the heath freshness'

Customer Reviews

Nostalgic
This book tells of what life on the road was like in the early 1900s, and of how different types of people treated the gypsy folk. It's full of fascinating insights, some quite sad moments, and also happy memories of Betsy Whyte, whose tale this is. Betsy was a terrific storyteller and I am looking forward to reading the second part of her story in Red Rowans and Honey.

A lovely book
For those that want to understand a little more about Scottish travellers in the early part of the last century then this book is for you. Interspersed with 'cant' words and social rites, it is a heart felt and warming portrayal of a way of life, not only of travellers but of country folk, now gone. It makes me glad that traveller people continue to exist, especially in this harder and seemingly less tolerant world. This book helps to put their lives in a historical context. Thank you Betsy!

Yellow on the Broom
First class service. Half the price that I was quoted in a local shop. A great little book