A COUNTRYMAN'S COG IN THE WHEEL OF EVOLUTION. By Alastair Duncan Millar.

1990 1st edition. 8vo (149 x 215mm). Ppviii,190. B/w photographs, fold-out plate, foreword by Lord Grimond. Green boards, upper board titled in gilt, spine untitled.

Autobiography of a fisherman, sportsman and local politician, his war memoirs, much on the natural history of the east of Scotland and an inside account of the EEC-induced upheavals in local government in the 1970's and '80's. Chapters on salmon management, deer stalking, grouse moors, shooting and hunting. Chapters include: Setting the scene; Going to war; Local affairs - planning, the reorganisation of Local Government; The land, the landscape and the people - early days, settle ownership, practical management, power from the glens, livestock auctioneering, Hill Farming Research Organisation, the Scottish Landowners' Federation; Field sports - the grouse moor, deer, pheasants, hunting; The salmon and other fish; 'Forward, though I cannot see..'