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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Martin
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857902881
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695 written by Martin Martin and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest travellers in Scotland, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, and a mine of information on custom, tradition and life. Martin Martin's wrote before the Jacobite rebellions changed the way of life of the Highlander irrevocably. The volume includes the earliest account of St Kilda, first published in 1697 and Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, account written in 1549 which presents a record of a pastoral visit to islands still coping with the aftermath of the fall of the Lords of the Isles.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847675387
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Journey to the Hebrides written by Samuel Johnson and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are magnificent historical documents and also portraits of two extraordinary personalities. In the vivid prose of these two famous men of letters, the Highlands and the Western Islands spring to life. The juxtaposition of the two very different accounts creates an unsurpassed portrait of a society which was utterly alien to the Europe of the Enlightenment, and which was straining on the brink of calamitous change. These great masterpieces, entertaining, profound, and marvellously readable are also our last chronicles of a lost age and people.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905163
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book To The Hebrides written by Samuel Johnson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, their accounts of the 'jaunt' are above all a valuable record of a society undergoing rapid change. In this pioneering new edition, Ronald Black brings together the two men's starkly contrasting accounts of each of the thirteen stages of the journey. He also restores to Boswell's text 20,000 words from his journal which were denied entry to his book because they were intimate, defamatory, or about the islands rather than Johnson. The endnotes incorporate Boswell's footnotes, translations of Latin passages, a clear summary of pre-existing information on the two texts, and a fresh focus on what the two men actually found on their trip. To the Hebrides also includes contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson, seventeen new maps and a comprehensive index.
Author : Madeleine Bunting
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647173X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Love of Country written by Madeleine Bunting and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Excellent . . . Almost the perfect marriage of travelogue to the inner landscape of political ideas and cultural reflections . . . a super read.” —New Statesman Few landscapes are as striking as that of the Hebrides, the hundreds of small islands that speckle the waters off Scotland’s northwest coast. The jagged, rocky cliffs and roiling waves serve as a reminder of the islands’ dramatic geological history. Facing the Atlantic, the Hebrides were at the center of ancient shipping routes and have a remarkable cultural history. After years of hearing about Scotland as a place interwoven with the story of her family, Madeleine Bunting went to see for herself this place so full of history. Over six years, Bunting returned again and again to the Hebrides, fascinated by the question of what it means to belong there. With great sensitivity, she takes readers through the Hebrides’ history of dispossession and displacement, a history that can be understand only in the context of Britain’s imperial past, and she shows how the Hebrides have been repeatedly used to define and imagine Britain. Love of Country is a revelatory journey through one of the world’s most remote, beautiful landscapes that encourages us to think of the many identities we wear as we walk our paths. “A remarkably thorough digest of the many histories of the Hebrides.” —Wall Street Journal “Moving and wonderful. . . . Both the author and reader of this book end up losing themselves not just in politics and history and the details of nature, but a sense of wonder” —The Guardian “Makes you feel you are there even if you have just left.” —Observer, Best Books of the Year
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. written by James Boswell and published by London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies. This book was released on 1807 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Barrett
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1783625074
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book The Hebridean Way written by Richard Barrett and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guidebook to the Hebridean Way, a 155-mile (247km) trail across 10 of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands. This waymarked, multi-day route is ideal for a fortnight’s exploration, using mostly low-level paths and crossing a variety of terrain, from dazzling white shell beaches to rugged hills and wild moors. The official waymarked route starts in Vatersay in the south and finishes at Stornoway in the north, via Barra, Eriskay, South Uist, Benbecula, Grimsay, North Uist, Berneray, Harris and Lewis 10 daily stages of 10–22 miles (16–35km) in length, with optional 30-mile (48km) extension from Stornoway to the Butt of Lewis, which takes two days Clear route descriptions with 1:50,000 maps and details of refreshments, public transport and accommodation Includes notes on geology, history, plants and wildlife, and a glossary of Gaelic and Norse placenames GPX files available for download
Author : Mairi Hedderwick
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854500
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book An Eye on the Hebrides written by Mairi Hedderwick and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 her spell-binding illustrations, Mairi Hedderwick portrays the islands in all their diversity, with swift and perceptive cameos of everyday life drawn with humour and affection alongside gorgeous landscapes which capture the truly magical beauty of the Hebrides.
Author : Austin Mardon
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1897472080
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)
Download or read book A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland written by Austin Mardon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 16th century description of the Hebrides the Western Isles of Scotland by Donald Monro. It is one of the first travelogues of the area. It is a modern translation of the manuscript.
Author : Alastair McIntosh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532634455
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Poacher's Pilgrimage written by Alastair McIntosh and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They host an astonishing range of mysterious structures - stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and 'temples' from the Celtic era. Over a twelve-day pilgrimage, often in appalling conditions, Alastair McIntosh returns to the islands of his childhood and explores the meaning of these places. Traversing moors and mountains, struggling through torrential rivers, he walks from the most southerly tip of Harris to the northerly Butt of Lewis. The book is a walk through space and time, across a physical landscape and into a spiritual one. As he battled with his own ability to endure some of the toughest terrain in Britain, he met with the healing power of the land and its communities. This is a moving book, a powerful reflection not simply of this extraordinary place and its people met along the way, but of imaginative hope for humankind.
Author : Bob Orrell
Publisher : Whittles Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781849950404
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Halcyon in the Hebrides written by Bob Orrell and published by Whittles Pub. This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique travel book and a useful sailing guide to the Western Isles and anchorages in the Hebrides
Author : Harry Cory Wright
Publisher : Merrell
ISBN 13 : 9781858944807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Journey Through the British Isles written by Harry Cory Wright and published by Merrell. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unabridged compact edition of photographer Harry Cory Wright's quest to capture the variety of landscapes that make up the modern British Isles.
Author : Helen Ochyra
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913551148
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Scotland Beyond the Bagpipes written by Helen Ochyra and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like so many people who live south of the border in England, Helen thought that she knew all about Scotland. It was a part of Britain after all, a place that was surely more the same than it was different. But then she actually went there – and everything changed...
Author : John Macleod
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 9780340639917
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Highlanders written by John Macleod and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the isles and glens of the Highlands of Scotland. Starting from a journey north to the author's home in the Western Isles, this book is a tour of the past, great and sad, of the Gaels of Scotland, and through the realities of the present.
Author : Philip Marsden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783783007
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Summer Isles written by Philip Marsden and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey by sea along the western coasts of Ireland and Scotland in search of islands, both real and imagined.
Author : Jonny Muir
Publisher : Sandstone PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9781905207619
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Isles at the Edge of the Sea written by Jonny Muir and published by Sandstone PressLtd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of an exploration of Scotland's most far-flung islands, with beautiful color photographs.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Digireads.Com
ISBN 13 : 9781420950632
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Major Works of Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by Digireads.Com. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson's contributions to English literature cannot be understated. His single greatest achievement is widely considered to be his "Dictionary of the English Language," which after nine years of research was first published in 1755. Until the publication of the "Oxford English Dictionary" over a century and a half later it was widely considered to be the preeminent dictionary of the English language. The work brought him much fame and success and had a profound impact on modern English literature. Johnson's contributions to the periodicals "The Rambler" and "The Idler" are considered to be some of the greatest examples of literary criticism of all time. This collection includes some of the best examples of his essays from those periodicals as well as a representative selection of his poetry, prose as well as his famous allegorical novel "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia." Readers of this volume will most assuredly agree that Johnson was a writer of immense talent whose genius is exhibited by the sheer breadth of his body of work.
