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“Bring back the lynx? Over my dead body!” Lord Purdey shook with anger right down into his ancient plus-fours.
The environmental protestors murmured and Rory stepped forward. “Your hunting has destroyed our hills, left them treeless desolate wastes, devoid of wildlife. It’s time that changed.”
Purdey snarled. “Listen, you lentil eating cat lover. Me and men like me own Scotland and if we want to kill anything that moves and bulldoze your beloved hills flat we will.”
Someone from the group of protestors hurled a turnip, it struck Purdey a glancing blow and he crumbled slowly to the ground just as the archaic class system he represents must eventually fall.
In his last two best-selling books Burns took his readers with him on his adventures into the hills of Scotland and invited them to share his humour, his love of the hills and wild places, as the firelight danced on the bothy walls.
In this novel he returns to that world to ask some fundamental questions about how we relate to this northern landscape. Anyone who has stood and gazed in awe at the silence and majesty of the Scottish landscape will know this place and want to return to it.


The Last Hillwalker

This is a book for everyone who truly loves the mountains and wild places. John Burns takes you on a journey of over forty years from the hills of Britain to adventures in the Rocky Mountains of USA and Canada.

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SHORTLISTED FOR TGO BOOK OF THE YEAR

Kindle Price: £3.11 Paperback £9.99
Edition: First edition
Published: 31.05. 2017
Language: English
Pages: 314

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Bothy Tales 

Bothy Tales is the perfect companion for The Last Hillwalker. In this collection of stories from the mountains and bothies of Scotland Burns delves deeper into his love of wild places. There are tales from his own experiences, some from his imagination, but always there is a sense of what it is to have an intimate relationship with wild places.

‘A mordant humour and a cast of friends and acquaintances enliven the stories.’ Chris Townsend

Kindle Price: £3.99 Paperback £7.99
Edition: First edition
Published: 16.03.18
Language: English
Pages: 206

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