Caithness to Patagonis – Distant Lands and Close Relatives

Caithness to Patagonis – Distant Lands and Close Relatives – Author – Ian Leith – Paper back

Publisher: Whittles Pubishing

This is an extrordinary and little-know story of emigration from Scotland. Caithness and Patagonia are literally a world apart, yet in the laate 19th and early 20th centuries a number of Caithness men and women took on the challenge of this wild, open and windswept land. The book provides the orogins and backgrounds of these Caithness Patagonian pioneers and sets their experiences alongside the growth and devlelopment of Patagonia as one of the workds great sheep farming areas.
152 Pages