Andrew Purves was born in 1912 in the parish of Linton, near Kelso, Roxburghshire. His boyhood ambition was to become a shepherd like his father before him and during a long career he worked on farms in the vicinity of Kelso as well as Berwickshire and Glas Water, and over the border in Glendale and Otterburn. His career spanned a period of sweeping changes in the structure of agricultural communities and of rural life, during which the countryside of his childhood and youth has altered almost beyond recognition.
- ISBN13 9781862321571
- Publish Date 16 July 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 November 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Tuckwell Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English