Product Description: The finely balanced, black-clad figure of a minister skating on ice on a gray and wintry afternoon has become a Scottish icon. This is one of Scotland's most visited pictures.

Product Description: Originally a few scattered settlements round the Water of Leith, the parish is now a busy suburb of Edinburgh. The author examines the changing life of the community and its kirk, and writes of the vivid personalities who walked on its streets and lived in its houses.