IT’S been almost two years in the making but this week a new book will arrive via Amazon telling the remarkable story of the group that walked 500 miles across Scotland to promote the cause of independence.
The book’s authors are named as Dean Woodhouse, Jim Stewart, Laura Marshall, Nicholas Russell, Wren Chapman, Karl J. Claridge and Dave Llewellyn, and its available on Amazon Kindle with the paperback version due out this week.
Along the way on their epic walk they met Yes groups and pro-independence individuals who came out to meet them and look after them, and it all culminated in the walkers being at the head of the huge march and rally in Edinburgh in October, 2018.
It’s a sad fact that the book is available on Amazon solely, chief compiler Dean Woodhouse told The National that seven months of trying to persuade Scottish publishing houses to publish it proved a waste.
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“It’s gone to Amazon purely because of the hassle of not finding a publisher that would accept it,” said Woodhouse. “It seems a lot of Yes groups go to Amazon because nobody else will pick up their work.
“I intentionally went out of my way to find a Scottish publisher and waited more than seven months to be told no. Apparently Yes projects don’t fit into their categories and that is an extremely sad state of affairs.”
The profits from sales of the book will be donated to grassroots Yes media groups,
Amazon describes the book as “the true story about an adventurous group of Scots, who chose to walk 500 miles across Scotland in Autumn 2018. They started on the Isle of Skye and continued onwards through Inverness, Peterhead, Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth, Stirling and Glasgow until they reached their final destination three weeks later.
“Starting out as strangers from locations across Scotland, the group quickly became friends, walking to connect Yes groups and inspire the swelling support for Scottish Independence. The walkers brought attention to their goal of joining thousands of marchers in Edinburgh. The hundred thousand people who arrived that day, collectively displayed the now unstoppable support for Scotland’s freedom.”
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Woodhouse said: “It’s about us all and what we did and what we accomplished on the walk, and the efforts we went to get to all our destinations.
“I think people remember the walk as a tremendous achievement but the reason we wrote it was so that people would not forget the bit of history that we made.
“I have worked on other projects that have been lost to history so when I was determined that there would be a chronicle of something that the Yes movement did, and the book is the end product.”
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