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Author : Charles Maclean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Island on the Edge of the World: Utopian St Kilda and Its Passing written by Charles Maclean and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Smith
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 1915089271
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Island in Imagination and Experience written by Barry Smith and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Treasure Island to Robben Island, from the paradise of Thomas More's 'Utopia' to Napoleon's purgatory on Elba, islands have proved irresistible to mankind's imagination since time immemorial. Self-confessed islomaniac Barry Smith explores how islands bewitch us so, and examines the kind of human experiences that islands inspire. Journeying all around the globe to take in the most fascinating stories of Earth's half a million islands, this book considers the unique geography, politics and economics of islands and their cultures. It traces their singular place in literature, religion and philosophy, and disentangles the myths and the facts to reveal just why islands exert such an insistent grip on the human psyche. 'Fascinating and wide-ranging.' Island Review 'A fascinating survey of the interplay between those little dots of land and the human imagination... Smith is excellent on the ways in which islands have always been pawns in geopolitical games...witty.' Geographical "Magisterial... A harrowing, enthralling piece of work that bears comparison with John Prebble's equally dense, equally passionate classic, The Highland Clearances ... [A] fascinating, scrupulous, angry, scholarly book." Jim Perrin, The Great Outdoors
Author : Margaret Macaulay
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910324116
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Prisoner of St Kilda written by Margaret Macaulay and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 18th century shotgun weddings were not unusual, but in most cases it wasn't the bride that was holding the gun. So began the stormy marriage between Lord and Lady Grange, a marriage which was to end with Lady Grange's death on the Isle of Skye after 13 years in exile. The daughter of a convicted murderer, Lady Grange's behaviour, such as her fondness for drink, was so outrageous that her sudden disappearance from public life was not considered surprising. But few knew the true story of her disappearance. This book reveals, for the first time, how the unfortunate lady was violently kidnapped and transported to the remote islands off the west coast of Scotland, spending seven years on the island of St. Kilda. Condemned to a very different lifestyle than she had enjoyed in Edinburgh, and baffled by the strange tongue of the Gaelic West, she still obstinately survived, finally dying in Skye in 1745.
Author : W Prummel
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922776
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Birds in Archaeology written by W Prummel and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises the papers presented at the 6th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group, held in August 2008 in Groningen, the Netherlands. The subjects of the contributions range from New Zealand, South America and the Near East to Europe and vary in time from the Pleistocene up to the late 19th century. Themes discussed are the palaeozoogeography of birds, the role of birds in subsistence, ritual and symbolism, bird hunting techniques and histological studies of bird bones. The geographical, temporal and thematic variation underlines the importance of ornito-archaeozoology for all aspects of archaeology.
Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000082431
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, A History of the Highland Clearances: Volume 2 explores the various types of communal and intellectual responses, contemporary and retrospective, to the experience of the clearances. The first section considers the legacy of the two hundred years’ debate about the Highland problem and the place of the clearances therein. The second section assesses the scale, range and timing of the emigrations of the Highlanders, as well as some of the motivations. The third section contemplates the direct popular response to the clearances, the collective memory and the tradition of physical resistance. The fourth section is about the career, trial and reputation of Patrick Sellar, which together embodied much of the social history, ruling ideas, and the necessary mythology of the clearances. The final section considers the fundamental economic problem of the Highlands in the age of the clearances, and the moral and economic alternatives that faced the community, the landlords, and the nation.
Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905244
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book The Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.
Author : A. W. Sparkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134840608
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Talking Politics written by A. W. Sparkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Politics is a philosophical examination of some of the basic concepts of political discourse. Its primary focus is on the ordinary; on what is said by politicians, in newspapers and by people in pubs, rather than on the works of political theorists. This is a work of, but not on political theory. Talking Politics is: * Invaluable as a source of reference for students, and contains a detailed index * Arranged thematically, around topics such as `Nation'. Each entry has copious cross-references and suggestions for further reading A. W. Sparkes is uniquely qualified to write such a book, combining some thirty years' teaching as a philosopher with wide experience of, and a life-long fascination with, politics. His attitude is that of a critical, but uncynical, observer.
Author : Charles Stewart Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Scots Magazine written by Charles Stewart Black and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Punter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Influence of Post-modernism on Contemporary Writing written by David Punter and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats postmodernism in its own terms, regarding it as a phenomenon which both represents a contemporary moment and also looks toward its own transcendence, passing away, disappearance. The book's critical range extends from the Gothic through to the most recent harbingers of modernity, and describes a trajectory that will take account of recent fiction/poetry and point readers to the development that will textualize into the 21st century.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ecologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1936 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1688 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Books and Bookmen written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Author : Robert A. Lambert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Species History in Scotland written by Robert A. Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental historians, archaeologists, ecologists, biologists and nature conservationists offer an interdisciplinary approach to species history in Scotland.
Author : Eric G. Grant
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scotland written by Eric G. Grant and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1982 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Ela-Fancourt written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Whitaker's Cumulative Book List written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
