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Captain Alexander Forsyth emigrated from Scotland to Boston in the early 1700's, married, and returned to Scotland with his family in 1763. Another Alexander Forsyth emigrated from Scotland to Baltimore in the late 1700's and died in 1808.
This is a detailed and beautifully illustrated book which looks at how goods have travelled to the Isles over the years.
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In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche. Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these vast expanses, but his journey is full of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past and present: murderers and monks, smugglers and priests, gamekeepers and ramblers, miners and poets, developers and environmentalists. As he travels, he shows us that the fierce landscapes we associate with Wuthering Heights and The Hound of the Baskervilles are far from being untouched wildernesses. Daunting and defiant, the moors echo with tales of a country and the people who live in it - a mighty, age-old landscape standing steadfast against the passage of time.
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