Preposterous - Tales to Follow: A Memoir by Bill Livingstone

It's a long way from a northern Ontario mining town to the most prestigious piping competition in the world, the Northern Meeting in Inverness, Scotland. It's perhaps slightly less far when your Scottish father starts teaching you bagpipes at the age of five--but only slightly.

William Livingstone went that far and more. This "upstart Canadian" not only won gold at the Northern Meeting, he became one of the world's most celebrated pipers and for many years led one of the world's most cel…