Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched by her spell-binding illustrations, in this book Mairi Hedderwick portrays the Western Isles in all their diversity, with swift and perceptive cameos of everyday life drawn with humour and affection alongsid...Daugiau...
Paul Murton has spent half-a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world the Hebrides. He has travelled the length and breadth of the Scotlands rugged, six-thousand-mile coast line, and sailed to over eighty islands.In this...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-May-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228021124)
Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeods life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms...Daugiau...
This text offers Martin Martins narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, with information on custom, tradition and life, and an account of St Kilda, published in 1697, and Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, visit after the fall of...Daugiau...
Brigid Bensons Hebridean Journey is a fabulous invitation to discover the unique spirit of Scotlands sensational island archipelago on the farthest edge of Europe. Washed by the surging waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the island chain of the O...Daugiau...
A facsimile edition of polymath Hugh Millers notes recording his rambles around Scotland in the mid 1840s was published by NMS Publishing in 2003 - the first edition for over a century and long out of print itself. This reprint has minor amendments,...Daugiau...
An older woman travels solo through the Hebrides, recounting her adventures, local history, the natural world and folklore in prose, poetry and song, beautifully illustrated by photographs she takes along the way...Daugiau...
Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring the west coast and islands of Scotland in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this book he recalls many a memorable expedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst magnificent scenery and ever-changing se...Daugiau...
A modern travelogue describing and revisiting Telfords work in Scotland oduring the early 19th century.Shows how Telfords engineering had a profound influence on the social history of the Highlands and Islands....Daugiau...
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Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair.Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched by...Daugiau...
In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Isla...Daugiau...
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In July 1935, Robert Atkinson and John Ainslie set out on an ornithological search for the rare Leachs Fork-tailed Petrel. Their quest was to last for twelve years and took them from their Oxford base to many of the remote and often...Daugiau...
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Paul Murton has spent half-a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world the Hebrides. He has travelled the length and breadth of the Scotlands rugged, six-thousand-mile coast line, and sailed to over eighty islands....Daugiau...
The Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, these iconic islands form part of Europes boundary. Because of their unique position, they hav...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Apr-2017, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226471563)
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Over six years, Bunting traveled the Hebrides, exploring their landscapes, histories, and magnetic pull. She delves into the meanings of home and belonging, which in these islands have been fraught with tragedy as well as tenacious resistance. Bunti...Daugiau...
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Few landscapes are as iconic as the islands off the north-western Scottish coast. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, the Hebrides form part of Europes boundary. Because of their unique position in the Atlantic arc...Daugiau...
Documents the authors experiences with and love for three Outer Hebrides islands he inherited as a young man, tracing the areas rich and sometimes violent history of hermits, legendary ghosts, farmers, fishermen, and Bronze Age gold. ...Daugiau...
