Description

Scarce book with an interesting provenance. After spending the last three years of the war living on his boat on the River Thames, David Scott-Moncrieff (1907-87, nick-name ‘Bunty’) and his wife left in 1946 on a motoring trip in a 5-litre Bugatti touring car, journeying through Norway, Sweden, Finland, Lapland and Denmark.

Alexander Chinnery-Haldane (1907-1994) was 27th Laird of Gleneagles and shared the author’s interest in cars and motorsport. It is almost certain that the two men were acquaintances through wealthy Scottish family connections and also through their shared interest in cars.

**Inscribed as follows: “With lots of love from Balkan Beast, To Mavis and to Stafford East, Presents this unpretentious tome, To kick around their happy home” – Bunty (wot rote it).

Hardback in good condition for age, with good dust cover, a little grubby as with many white covers, some scuffing but now in protective clear cover..