A Scotsman and an Englishman, a camera and a notebook. The pictures tell a thous
and stories, the words tell the time. This is Scotland, captured at its most cru
cial point for 300 years.
United by a love of Scotland, warts and all. Especi
ally its warts, in fact. Gray and McCredie set out on a journey high and low, ma
inland and island, rust and heather, to document a country and its people.
He
re is a country caught and sketched before it disappears, one of flaking pub sig
ns and tenant crofters, Italian cafes and proper fitba' grounds. Stunning and mo
ving images are coupled with lyrical and nostalgic prose to make a work which wi
ll become a reference point, a caledonian comfort, an antidote to shortbread-tin
Scotland.
