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• Great book. Came quickly. Now want more by the same author!!!

• Not easy to follow, the story slips from present to past, goes farther back, and hints about the future of the boy Kenn who is the central character. We first meet Ken when he is nine, gleefully stoning then slowly killing a salmon. His mother, who had sent thim to fetch water from the pool, is not the least worried by the fact that he's been gone a long time! Later we find Kenn exploring the river with his older brother Angus who teaches him many ways of poaching salmon and trout, and how to make snares for rabbits! This book was first published in 1937. I am quite surprised that it has not been "edited", because the poaching lessons are explicit, and Kenn robs eggs from the nests of various birds. Some of the plundered eggs provide an Easter "treat" for the boys and their parents! I'm not a sentimentalist, but I could not bring myself to share the boys' delighted laughter when they caused -- as we are now aware -- this loss of species. Times have changed, opinions have changed, but... maybe there should be a "warning" inserted for the sensitive reader!

• Beautiful.I can understand more about my descendants from Dalbeath who settled in Waitahuna Otago NZ in the mid.1800s.They sent 2 sons back to Scotland to study Medicine and Dentistry .The dentist died on the long voyage back to NZ. The importance of education and a love of the mountains and their natural beauty are the simple qualities which they bought to NZ.They have been the founding fathers of a wonderful country which still looks back to Scotland .

• Maybe not his best book, but I always enjoy Neil Gunn's writing.

• This book provides a look into a way of life of the highlanders in Scotland during the turn of the century. A real insight into a much simpler life but one that forms the true character of the scot.

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