Royal Scottish geographical society

Conflict and Change in the Countryside. By Guy M. Robinson, 237 × 162 mm, xxvi + 482 pp, Belhaven, London, 1990, pbk, ISBN 1–85293–044–6, £14.95.

The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: The County of West Lothian. Edited by Patrick Cadell, 230 × 145 mm, 377 pp, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1992, hbk, £37.50.

The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: The County of Roxburgh. Edited by John Herdman, 230 × 145 mm, 368 pp, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1992, hbk, £37.50.     

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED: REFLECTIONS ON A CAREER IN GEOGRAPHY

'The Road Not Taken'
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the road less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.