THE GAMEKEEPER: A YEAR IN THE GLEN. By Charlie Pirie and Iain Fraser Grigor.

1995 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp224. Colour and b/w photographs by Charlie Crawford. Green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

Based on the 1995 BBC television series. A year in the life of Charlie Pirie, gamekeeper and head stalker on the Duke of Atholl's estates at Blair Atholl. Chapters include: January - by bog, dirk and dagger; February - Jacobite Atholl, the '45; March - wildlife, wild glen; April - the Fare of Keepers and Kings; May - teach yourself stalking, top tips for Tilt; June - the statistical accounts of Scotland; July - troubled Tilt, Somers in the glen; August - tools of the trade; September - Glen Tilt, poachers and potentates; October - the story of keepering, the way it was; November - Atholl, the modern sporting estate; December.