The High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence

by Murray Shoolbraid and Ed Cray

In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqu ' and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, he made inquiries about it, but it was not made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it was presented to the Child Memorial Library...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604734175
• ISBN13: 9781604734171
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"