Brought to Book on the Tourist Trail

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I returned to Bladnoch Distillery in Wig-town last week for the launch of Donald MacIntosh's second book, Travels in Galloway: memoirs from south-west Scotland. The first, Travels in the White Man's Grave, recounts his experiences during 30 years working as a free prospector in west and central Africa.

MacIntosh is an unlikely literary attraction. Slightly bent over a tartan-clad table, wearing the muted greens and browns of all those who have never left their native sod, his words arrived at the microphone honed and polished. As someone who has come late to writing, he built his sentences slowly, with an obvious pleasure at phrases whose source is the community in which he …