Dunbeath is a town in south-east Caithness, Scotland on the A9 road. It was the birthplace of Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), author of The Silver Darlings, Highland River and so on, many of whose books are embeded in Dunbeath and also its Strath. Dunbeath has a really rich historical landscape, the site of various Iron Age brochs and also a very early middle ages reclusive site (see Alex Morrison's archaeological study, "Dunbeath: A Cultural Landscape".) Of Dunbeath's landscape, Gunn created: "These little straths, like the Strath of Dunbeath, have this intimate charm. In boyhood we are familiar with every square backyard of it. We incorporate it literally and also our memories hold it. Birches, hazel trees for nutting, pools with trout and a periodically noticeable salmon, river-flats with the wind on the bracken and going away bunny scuts, a riches of wild flower as well as small bird life, the skyrocketing hawk, the unanticipated roe, the old graveyard, thoughts of the people who when lived far inland in straths and also hollows, the past as well as today held in a minute of day-dream." ('My Little Bit Of Britain', 1941.). There is an area museum/landscape interpretation centre at the old village college.