Patrick Goodall was borne in England during World War 11, and was raised in the Highlands of Scotland. He graduated from Cambridge in 1964 with a degree in Natural Sciences, spent a couple of years in Industry in England and then emigrated to USA and entered Medical School at Stanford in California. Since 1974 he has made his home in Portland Oregon, where he has had a successful practice as a consultant Physician. He is now retired with his wife of 32 years to rural SW Washington State.
A Sassenach in Caledonia
Reminiscences of a Boyhood in the Scottish Highlands
by Patrick T. Goodall
A Sassenach in Caledonia
Reminiscences of a Boyhood in the Scottish Highlands
by Patrick T. Goodall
Published Aug 31, 2022
149 Pages
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Book Details
Life on a Grouse Shooting Lodge in the 1950’s
A small English- born boy is removed from the home counties to the remote Scottish Highlands in the mid 1940s and spends the next 15 years being raised on a grouse shooting lodge. This remote and rural environment was in sharp contrast to the suburban life he had previously known. Descriptions of the local characters, the vagaries of the language, the details of the establishment of an up-scale hostelry, and the day-today adventures of a child with an exploring nature and the wide open expanse of wild moorland provide many opportunities for the establishment of lifelong memories.