![]() ![]() Never one to shirk a challenge David tells us: “I was sitting in the audience thinking, ‘I could do that!’ He began work on “On the Trail Of William Wallace” the very next day and when it was published it burst into the top ten best sellers in its first week & so began David’s life as an author. ![]() Is the pen mightier than the sword? In modern times it would seem most definitely and David was our mightiest and most skilled of warrior poets and we should treat him with the same reverence as the heroes of our past without question.ĭavid was a very accomplished author and historian with many books and TV credits to his name but he didn’t put pen to paper until after attending a lecture by Dr Elspeth King, who suggested that someone should write a book listing where Scotland’s Wallace-related sites were. Most of Scotland’s favourite sons fought with claymore, axe and sword, David did it with pen and paper. Being Scottish we’ve all heard the phrase from Braveheart “and they fought like warrior poets”, but unlike Wallace, who fought and died by the sword, David was that mystical warrior poet mounted on his Harley motorcycle rather than a trusty steed so much so that he was known as the “Biker Historian”. ![]()
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