Mr. Buckland, Mr. Walpole & Mr. Young: Around Scotland with the Fisheries Men

1320Books presents a bright, character-led, non-fiction narrative featuring three larger-than-life, nineteenth-century personalities in the leading roles. There is also a supporting cast of straight-talking fishing folk from every significant fishing community around Scotland’s coastline.
Frank Buckland, Spencer Walpole and Archibald Young had been working together on a regular basis as H.M. Inspectors of Fisheries since 1867. They had undertaken surveys and investigations in Scotland before, and so were more than familiar with people, places and logistics.
The overall aim of the book is to shorten the perceived distance between twenty-first-century Scotland and the Victorian confection that persists in popular culture. Readers will begin to see more similarities than differences, and, hopefully, immerse themselves further in Scotland’s living social history.