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Seton Gordon CBE (1886–1977) was a Scottish naturalist, photographer and folklorist. Gordon began exploring the Highlands of Scotland as a boy, particularly the Cairngorms . [ 1 ] He later became a world-famous naturalist, photographer and folklorist, describing the wildlife and scenery of Scotland.
Seton Gordon lived from 1886 to March 1977. He was an naturalist, a photographer and a folklorist, whose books about the highlands and islands brought the magic of the area to a broad audience. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline. Seton Paul Gordon was born in Aboyne on Deeside in 1886, the son of a ...
Sep 13, 2023 · Seton Gordon in the Cairngorms, aged 90, photographed by ecologist and mountaineer Adam Watson. Among his best known works is The Cairngorm Hills of Scotland . Published in 1925, it explores the geology, climate and wildlife of that famous mountain range, spun through with anecdotes from days spent among their peaks and pinewoods.
Jul 8, 2020 · 8 July 2020. In this week's Eagle People Profile #9 Project Board member Des Thompson urges us to read the works of Seton Gordon. “For the first 30 years of this century [20th], after the great work of Harvie-Brown and his companions, Seton Gordon was the only ornithologist working full time in the Scottish Highlands” This opening line of ...
Gordon’s writing greatly influenced later nature writers such as Tom Weir, Mike Tomkies, Jim Crumley. A biography of Seton Gordon was written by Raymond Eagle in 1991, but is unfortunately now out of print. Some of Seton Gordon’s essays and photographs have been collected in Hamish Brown’s book, Seton Gordon’s Scotland: An Anthology.
Nov 21, 2014 · Seton Gordon was born in 1886 into an Aberdeenshire family and was to live to the age of 91. In that time his life spanned some of the most momentous changes in civilisation and yet his travels rarely took him away from Scotland for long.
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March 1976: In All Kinds Of Weather. April 1976: A Spring Morning, Tales of the Drovers, and The Carron Valley. May 1976: Secrets Of The Muir. June 1976: Back To The Hostels. July 1976: My Loch Lomond. August 1976: The Walkers’ Wonderland. September 1976: Seton Gordon, Man of Nature. In September, 1976, Tom Weir drove up to Upper Duntuilm on ...
