Donald Mac Intosh was the eldest son of a Perthshire woodcutter and a mother from the Isle of Mull. After studying forestry in Argyll, he spent 30 years as a tree prospector/surveyor in West Africa, spending months at a time going 'native' deep into the equatorial rainforests. He wrote for several publications before his death in 2014 and he was the author of six books.
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Donald MacIntosh: Travels in the White Man’s Grave
In the 1950s, the interior of West and Central Africa was still known as ‘The White Man’s Grave’. Its forests were primeval and inhabited the minds of Westerners as places of foreboding. But to …
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Donald MacIntosh: Travels in Galloway
These travel memoirs from Galloway span from between the war years until current times and cover a wide spectrum of people and places in this fascinating corner of Scotland. The subject matter spans …
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Donald MacIntosh: Gone Native
Donald Mac Intosh had never left his native Scotland until, at the age of 23, he embarked on a career as a tree surveyor and forest botanist which took him to some of the most remote parts of the …
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Donald Macintosh: Sport and Politics in Canada
Active Canadian government in sport is recent. Even after the passage of the Fitness and Amateur Sport Act in 1961, government activity was limited to small grants to national sport governing bodies …
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Donald Macintosh & David Whitson: Game Planners
The Game Planners studies the policy-making process in six Canadian national sports organizations, each of which deals with a different high-profile Olympic event. The authors argue that the creation …
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Michael Hawes & Donald Macintosh: Sport and Canadian Diplomacy
The authors examine the key events of the Department’s involvement: Prime Minister Trudeau’s quarrel with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over the conditions under which Taiwan could …
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