village of Ardgay (then known locally as "High Wind"). Spanning the period before the First World War until the end of the Second, it captures the last remnants of the simplicity, privations and charm of Scottish rural community life. The "Victor" in the book is the poet Frederick Victor Branford. Publications Behold the Hebrides! (First published 1925, Revised Edition 1948) Over the Sea to Skye: Or, Ramblings in an Elfin Isle (1926) Summer Days Among The Western Isles (1929) A Last Voyage To St. Kilda (1931) Searching the Hebrides With a Camera (1933) The Haunted Isles: Or, Life in the Hebrides (1933) The Peat-Fire Flame: Folk-tales and Traditions of the Highlands and Islands (1937) The Goat Wife: Portrait of a Village (1939) Vanished Waters: Portrait of a Highland Childhood (1946) The Western Isles (1949) Skye and the Outer Hebrides (1953) Auld Reekie: Portrait of a Lowland Boyhood (1955) The Ghost Book: Strange Hauntings in Britain (1955) The Turbulent Years: A Portrait of Youth in Auld Reekie (1956) Journeyman Taylor: The Education of a Scientist (1958, rewrite of the Thomas Griffith Taylor autobiography) Phantom Footsteps: A Second Ghost Book (1959) Percyval Tudor-Hart: Portrait of an Artist (1961) The Golden Lamp: Portrait of a Landlady (1964) Land of the Mountain and the Flood (1965) The Enchanted Isles (1967) The Farthest Hebrides (1969) Islands by the Score (1971) Notes 1899 births 1970 deaths Scottish folklorists Scottish memoirists Scottish travel writers Scottish photographers People from Ross and Cromarty 19th-century Scottish people 20th-century Scottish poets Scottish male poets 20th-century British male writers