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Ian Mitchell is a Scottish author, who grew up mainly in South Africa. He is the author of Isles of the West: a Hebridean Voyage and Isles of the North: a Voyage to the Realms of the Norse. Both books are concerned with apparently virtuous environmental NGO's which operate in rural Scotland but which, in the point of view of the author, actually do damage to it. Mitchell is a critic of bodies like the RSPB and Scottish Natural Heritage, and has compared aspects of their behavior to that of the Nazis[1].

Mitchell was founder and director of an organisation called People Too, described by him as an "organisation founded to defend rural communities from the imposts of centralised bureaucracy". With the relocation of Scottish Natural Heritage to Inverness, People Too relocated the headquarers of the conservation bureaucracy to a rural area (though most of the Edinburgh staff resigned rather than move into the community they had been administering). It accordingly decided to disband.

Mitchell has also written a book called The Cost of a Reputation, about the Aldington-Tolstoy libel trial which took place in London in 1989 and which concerned a controversial British Army operation in May 1945 by which tens of thousands of Cossack and Yugoslav refugees from Stalin and Tito were handed over, for the most part illegally, to the dictators. Best estimates are that half of them subsequently perished at the hands of the Communists. The book mainly concerns the London trial, at which, the late Lord Aldington, who had issued the illegal orders in 1945 as Staff Brigadier, perjured himself. In this, as an ex-Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, he was assisted by both the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defense.

Mitchell is currently working on what he describes as an indoor travel book about the judges and courts in Scotland, to be called The Justice Factory. He lived for fifteen years on the Hebridean island of Islay, where he has three children. He now lives in Moscow.
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Total Books: 32
100 Science Homework Activities for Years 5 and 6
100 Science Homework Activities for Years 5 and 6 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780590537254
ISBN-10: 0590537253
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100 Science Lessons for Year 5 with CDRom
100 Science Lessons for Year 5 with Cdrom (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780439945073
ISBN-10: 0439945070
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Agile Development In Practice
Agile Development in Practice (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781908552495
ISBN-10: 1908552492
Genre: Business & Money
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Biological Basis of Behaviour
Biological Basis of Behaviour (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781846588099
ISBN-10: 184658809X
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The Child in the Centre SeventyFive Years at the Alberta Children's Hospital
The cost of a reputation Aldington versus Tolstoy  the causes course and consequences of the notorious libel case
Dove of War
Dove of War (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780709184782
ISBN-10: 0709184786
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FROGS
Frogs [food Raised in Organic Gardens in Schools - Green Shoots Series] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781857410792
ISBN-10: 1857410793
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Glasgow
Glasgow [Baxter Guides] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780947782801
ISBN-10: 094778280X
Genres: History, Travel
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How to  Quit the Day Job Life Change Strategies for Economically Tough Times
How to Quit the Day Job Life Change Strategies for Economically Tough Times [safely] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781842181676
ISBN-10: 184218167X
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Isles of the North
Isles of the North (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781841582986
ISBN-10: 1841582980
Genres: History, Reference, Travel
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Isles of the West
Isles of the West (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781841581507
ISBN-10: 184158150X
Genres: Reference, Travel
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Isles of the West A Hebridean Voyage
Isles of the West a Hebridean Voyage (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780862418786
ISBN-10: 086241878X
Genre: History
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The Justice Factory Show me the judge and I'll tell you the law
The Justice Factory Show Me the Judge and I'll Tell You the Law (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781496146489
ISBN-10: 1496146484
Genres: Reference, Law
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Kabul Contract
Kabul Contract (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780709169246
ISBN-10: 0709169248
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Mountain Days  Bothy Nights
Mountain Days Bothy Nights [Walk with Luath] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780946487158
ISBN-10: 0946487154
Genres: Sports & Outdoors, Travel
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Mountain Footfalls A Calendar of the Scottish Hills
Mountain Footfalls a Calendar of the Scottish Hills (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781873644539
ISBN-10: 1873644531
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The Mountain Weeps
The Mountain Weeps (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780952974208
ISBN-10: 0952974207
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National 5 Physics Student Book
National 5 Physics Student Book (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780007504664
ISBN-10: 0007504667
Genres: Children's Books, Reference
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Old Gold Road
Old Gold Road (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780709162148
ISBN-10: 0709162146
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On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands
On the Trail of Queen VIctoria in the Highlands [On the Trail of Series] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780946487790
ISBN-10: 0946487790
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
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Selkirkshire in Old Photographs [Britain in Old Photographs] (Paperback)