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Book Synopsis A Scots Dictionary of Nature by : Amanda Thomson
Download or read book A Scots Dictionary of Nature written by Amanda Thomson and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland is a nation of dramatic weather and breathtaking landscapes – of nature resplendent. And, over the centuries, the people who have lived, explored and thrived in this country have developed a rich language to describe their surroundings: a uniquely Scottish lexicon shaped by the very environment itself. A Scots Dictionary of Nature brings together – for the first time – the deeply expressive vocabulary customarily used to describe land, wood, weather, birds, water and walking in Scotland. Artist Amanda Thomson collates and celebrates these traditional Scots words, which reveal ways of seeing and being in the world that are in danger of disappearing forever. What emerges is a vivid evocation of the nature and people of Scotland, past and present; of lives lived between the mountains and the sky.
Download or read book Belonging written by Amanda Thomson and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2022 Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest. Belonging is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves. Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson's artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are.
Book Synopsis Concise Dictionary of Scottish Quotations by : Betty Kirkpatrick
Download or read book Concise Dictionary of Scottish Quotations written by Betty Kirkpatrick and published by Crombie Jardine Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise but comprehensive collection of famous Scottish quotes.
Book Synopsis Amongst Aliens and Ghosts by : Edda Starck
Download or read book Amongst Aliens and Ghosts written by Edda Starck and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2023 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new conservation paradigm, rewilding is quickly gaining popularity across Scotland. Against the urgencies of the Anthropocene, rewilding projects offer hope by imagining radical visions of biodiverse futures that promise liveability not just to humans but a large host of species. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Scotland, this study explores the diverse multispecies temporalities that come to matter within rewilding. Scottish rewilding landscapes are populated by various beings and absences that blur rigid categorisations of linear temporality into past, present, and future. The ghosts of extirpated species continue to shape the becoming of landscapes, and the unruly presence of invasive alien species complicate the convivial ethics of rewilding initiatives. Following the temporal entanglements of various Scottish beasts, this book describes the interconnections between time, death, and belonging in storied landscapes.
Book Synopsis An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (Volume I) by : John Jamieson
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (Volume I) written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hidden Fires written by Merryn Glover and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender. In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as companion and guiding light. Following in the footsteps and contours of The Living Mountain, she explores the same landscapes and themes as Shepherd's seminal work. This is a journey separated by time but unified by space and purpose, a conversation between two women across nearly a century that explores how entering the life of a mountain can illuminate our own. An Australian who grew up in the Himalayas, her early experiences of the Scottish hills and weather left her cold. But gradually acclimatising and with an approach like Shepherd's, that is more mountain wandering than mountaineering, she discovers the spark that sets the hills and herself on fire. Through Glover's deepening encounter, the wild majesty and iridescence of the Cairngorms is revealed in this beautiful evocation of landscape, place and identity. 'Merryn Glover's The Hidden Fires is not just brave, it is remarkable' – Sir John Lister-Kaye
Book Synopsis Natural Words by : Kelby and Amy Ouchley
Download or read book Natural Words written by Kelby and Amy Ouchley and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Words is a dictionary for naturalists (naturalist - student of natural history, as a hobby or professionally). By definition, natural history is the study of living organisms and their non-living environment, usually by observation. The book contains those unique words that one might hear in a ranger's campfire talk, or read in a conservation magazine or scientific article. They express the physical description, behavior, classification, and life history of living organisms. They depict those words that illustrate the environment in which the organisms are found. Simply put, this small book is geared toward all nature lovers with an interest in learning the terminology used to relate to the natural world.
Book Synopsis The Literature and Politics of the Environment by : John Parham
Download or read book The Literature and Politics of the Environment written by John Parham and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies.Much as the complexities of climate change and the Anthropocene have queried the limits and exclusions of literary representation, so, too, have the challenges recently presented by climate activism and intersectional environmentalism, animal rights, and even the power of material forms, such as oil, plastic, and heavy metals. Social and protest movements have revived the question of whether there can be such a thing as an activist ecocriticism: can such an approach only concern itself with consciousness, or might it politicise literary criticism in a new way? Attempting to respond, this volume coalesces around three interrelated strands: material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing itself. Contributors consider the ways in which literary form has foregrounded the complexities of both matter (in essays on water, sugar, and land) and political economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine the conditions and systems needed to do so? and land) and political economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine the conditions and systems needed to do so? and land) and political economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine the conditions and systems needed to do so? and land) and political economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine the conditions and systems needed to do so?o?
Book Synopsis Modern Scots by : Robert McColl Millar
Download or read book Modern Scots written by Robert McColl Millar and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your user-friendly study and revision guide to Scots criminal law, written specially for students by a law lecturer with over 20 years of teaching experience.
Book Synopsis Concise Dictionary of Nature by : Jilly Glassborow
Download or read book Concise Dictionary of Nature written by Jilly Glassborow and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ... by : John Jamieson
Download or read book A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ... written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nature Contested by : Smout T. C. Smout
Download or read book Nature Contested written by Smout T. C. Smout and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how we have treated nature in some of the most valued landscapes in Europe. Combining social and cultural history with ecology and geography, T.C. Smout has written an environmental history that is both profound and accessible.The Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, the Lake District and the northern moors and plains of England form a natural region. The crags, moorland, woods and wetlands have been both treasured for their beauty and biodiversity and reviled as unproductive deserts to be improved and reclaimed. The fields have been made more fertile for production and the waters tapped for industrial use, but at a certain cost. The contest between two views of nature - conservation versus development; use versus delight - is at the centre of the book. The author begins by taking a hard look at our encounters with the natural world. He shows how the Scots and the northern English never shared the southerner's view of their environment as intimidating, and describes how conflict between using and enjoying the land gradually arose and gave birth to modern conservation ideas. He reveals how the history of the woods - especially the 'Great Wood of Caledon' - is quite different from popular myth, and examines the history and fate of the soil and the fields; of the rivers, lakes and lochs; of the hills and mountains; and of the modern quarrel over the countryside.'By the end,' the author writes, 'I hope to have presented on my theatre a dramatic tale that tells us a fair amount not only of northern Britain, but something about the globe and the European west as a whole over the last four hundred years.'
Book Synopsis An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (Volume III) by : John Jamieson
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (Volume III) written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (Volume II) by : John Jamieson
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (Volume II) written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Scot's Dialect Dictionary, Comprising the Words in Use from the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day by : Alexander Warrack
Download or read book A Scot's Dialect Dictionary, Comprising the Words in Use from the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day written by Alexander Warrack and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch, with an Introductory Chapter on the Poetry, Humour, and Literary History of the Scottish Language and an Appendix of Scottish Proverbs by : Charles MacKay
Download or read book A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch, with an Introductory Chapter on the Poetry, Humour, and Literary History of the Scottish Language and an Appendix of Scottish Proverbs written by Charles MacKay and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Book Synopsis Supplement to The Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language by : John Jamieson
Download or read book Supplement to The Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
