ROBERT BURNS AND AYRSHIRE

This book is crammed cover-to-cover with biographical detail and anecdotal material about the poet's life, the people he knew and his many adventures in central Scotland. Painstakingly researched, it runs to a whopping 480 pages and the text is complemented and enhanced by over 200 first-class images. Appended also are autobiographical letters written by Burns, and biographical accounts from contemporaries, including his brother Gilbert, together with relevant excerpts from the Statistical Accounts of Scotland.