P J G Ransom - LochearnheadJohn Ransom and his wife Elisabeth (Libby) have lived in Lochearnhead for thirty years or so, and brought their two sons up here. During that time, and earlier, John has produced a succession of books about transport history, local history and related subjects. These he researched and wrote and in many cases illustrated with his own photographs. Libby too provided some of the illustrations. John has also contributed chapters to many books of multiple authorship. [more]... Jim Crumley- Balquhidder, Author and NaturalistJim Crumley was born in Dundee, and after a career as a newspaper journalist in Dundee, Glasgow, Stirling and Edinburgh he became a full-time nature writer in 1988. Since then he has published 25 books from bases in Stirling, Glen Dochart and Balquhidder. What he describes as his “writer’s territory” is a patch of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park extending from the Lake of Menteith and Flanders Moss in the south to Glen Dochart in the north. He has also featured in many BBC radio programmes, including adventures in Alaska and Norway, and a few minor sallies into television, including a film about swans that took him to Iceland. He looks forward to the day when the BBC sends him somewhere warm and dry to work! He contributes a weekly column to The Courier and a monthly Nature Watch column to The Scots Magazine. Recent Books Include:
The Great Wolf
The Last Wolf
The Winter Whale (all published by Birlinn)
Brother Nature
Something Out There
A High and Lonely Place
The Mountain of Light (all published by Keith Whittles)
Waters of the Wild Swan 6 (published by Jonathan Cape)
The Company of Swans (published by Harvill)
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