Scotland in Colour

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1954. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. A, F. Kersting. 111, [1] pages. Contains Foreword by Sir Compton Mackenzie, and 32 photographs in color by A. F. Kersting. DJ has some wear, is price clipped and is in a plastic sleeve. Moray David Shaw McLaren (1901-1971) was a Scottish writer and broadcasting executive. McLaren moved back to Scotland in 1930 as a BBC Scottish Region radio executive and in his work Return to Scotland of that year laid emphasis on his Scottish background. He announced his interest in Scottish nationalism in 1931 by supporting George Malcolm Thomson's pamphlet The Kingdom of Scotland Restored. During the 1930s McLaren was transferred to other posts within the BBC. He worked on the Radio Times. He originated a series on Scottish forensic oratory, from which John Gough's trial drama on Madeleine Smith originated. McLaren during World War II was involved in the Polish section of the Political Warfare Executive. A. F. Kersting is a photographer who is both an artist and an extremely skilled technician. He has achieved a degree of faithfulness in the representation of nature which has seldom been equaled, and certainly never before in the illustrations to a book on Scotland. Moray McLaren, who has written the long essay which accompanies Mr. Kersting's photographs, claims that he knows the country of his birth as intimately as any person alive. His account of the face of Scotland is sensitive, fresh, and written with an obvious affection. Among the illustrations are renderings of: Dunvegan, Ben Nevis, Calton Hill, Holyroodhouse, Dundee, Dochart, Killin, Bruar Falls, Kincraig, Inverness, Glenshiel,Glen Etive, Dunnottar Castle, Kintail Hills, St. Andrews, Slioch, Balmoral, Barcaldine, Dunblane, Gairloch, and Stonehaven.