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Author : Alasdair Maclean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Night Falls on Ardnamurchan written by Alasdair Maclean and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alasdair Maclean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140108125
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Night Falls on Ardnamurchan written by Alasdair Maclean and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title weaves the author's own account of crofting with extracts from his father's journal - detailing the day-to-day tasks of crofting life. The book also reveals the author's struggle to comes to terms with his background.
Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788855744
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Islands of the Evening written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[an] exploration of Scotland's past through the eyes of a scholarly hiker ... Magnificent' - New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and Scotland's Atlantic shore. They sought spiritual solitude in remote places, but their mission was also to spread the word of God to the peoples of Scotland. Columba was the most famous of these pioneers who rowed their curraghs towards danger and uncertainty in a pagan land, but the many others are now largely forgotten. Alistair Moffat sets off in search of these elusive figures. As he follows in their footsteps, he finds their traces not so much in tangible remains as in the spirit and memory of the places that lay at the very edge of their world.
Author : Dr Harry Reid
Publisher : Saint Andrew Press
ISBN 13 : 0715209736
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Soul of Scotland written by Dr Harry Reid and published by Saint Andrew Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is at the very core of Scotland's turbulent, action-packed history and its unique cultural heritage. Indeed, you could argue that Scotland has been, for most of the past 1600 years, an intensely religious country. It is home to some of the most significant early Christian art anywhere in the entire world, and has an amazing 53 cathedrals. In a fast-paced and enthralling epic celebration of Scotland's spiritual heritage, this amazing voyage of discovery reveals that there are echoes of the upsides and downsides of religion everywhere. The distinctive spiritual beauty of Scotland is inspiring and to be found in the most unexpected places. The author also casts a canny eye over some ever-controversial issues such as witchcraft, sectarianism, the Clearances and the DIsruption. Other topics include the Isles, literature, the differences between Edinburgh and Glasgow, Calvanism, Margaret Thatcher, the Declaration of Arbroath, The National Covenant, church buildings, special spiritual sites, spiritual leaders, kings and queens, little-known influential women, religious revivals, Celtic Christianity - and many other elements of the diverse essence of spiritual Scotland. Scotland's Christianity always mixed with politics and was a key part of our national identity....until now, that is. Now Scotland is an apparently secular country, often oblivious to its Christian foundations. Can Christianity be revived in Scotland - or is it dead and buried for ever? Harry Reid has some controversial and perhaps surprising answers.
Author : Sawyers, June Skinner
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455608669
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Maverick Guide to Scotland written by Sawyers, June Skinner and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178885683X
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Highlands and Islands of Scotland written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as it has never been told before. From the formation of the landscape millions of years ago to the twenty-first century, it brings to life the events and the people who have shaped Highland history, from saints, sinners and outlaws to monarchs, clan chiefs and warriors. Highly readable and informative, it mines a wide range of sources including medieval manuscripts and sagas, poetry and popular culture. Picts, Romans, Irish missionaries, Vikings, Jacobites and the flood of emigrants who left to forge new lives abroad are just some of the important players in the drama. As he paints the bigger picture, Alistair Moffat also introduces many key aspects of Highland culture and explores the experience of ordinary Highlanders and Islanders over thousands of years.
Author : Jim Crumley
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857900900
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book The Great Wood written by Jim Crumley and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tackles the legend of the . . . forest said to have once stretched from coast to coast and to have covered much of the Scottish uplands and Highlands.” —The Herald The Great Wood of Caledon—the historic native forest of Highland Scotland—has a reputation as potent and misleading as the wolves that ruled it. The popular image is of an impassable, sun-snuffing shroud, a Highlandswide jungle infested by wolf, lynx, bear, beaver, wild white cattle, wild boar, and wilder painted men. Jim Crumley shines a light into the darker corners of the Great Wood, to re-evaluate some of the questionable elements of its reputation, and to assess the possibilities of its partial resurrection into something like a national forest. The book threads a path among relict strongholds of native woodland, beginning with a soliloquy by the Fortingall Yew, the one tree in Scotland that can say of the hey-day of the Great Wood 5,000 years ago: “I was there.” The journey is enriched by vivid wildlife encounters, a passionate and poetic account that binds the slow dereliction of the past to an optimistic future. “Crumley’s greatest talent lies in his ability to convey genuine sympathy for the wildlife he observes, and a somehow calming sense that, however much mankind might like to think itself above all that, we’re really all just part and parcel of the same continuum . . . A great antidote to modern life.” —Daily Record “An engaging read.” —BBC Wildlife Magazine “Crumley gives unique insight into the rich history of this land.” —Scottish Field
Author : Jim Crumley
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 1915089204
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Eagle's Way : Nature's New Frontier in a Northern Landscape written by Jim Crumley and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best nature writer working in Britain today." - The Los Angeles Times. Eagles, more than any other bird, spark our imaginations. These magnificent creatures encapsulate the majesty and wildness of Scottish nature. But change is afoot for the eagles of Scotland: the golden eagles are now sharing the skies with sea eagles after a successful reintroduction programme. In 'The Eagle's Way', Jim Crumley exploits his years of observing these spectacular birds to paint an intimate portrait of their lives and how they interact with each other and the Scottish landscape. Combining passion, beautifully descriptive prose and the writer's 25 years of experience, 'The Eagle's Way' explores the ultimate question - what now for the eagles? - making it essential reading for wildlife lovers and eco-enthusiasts.
Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 1788853040
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book In Search of Angels written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This account of four west coast journeys in search of the remnants of the earliest Christian missionaries is intriguing . . . Moffat is an engaging guide.” —The Scotsman Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic shore. These “white martyrs” sought solitude, remoteness, even harshness, in places apart from the world where they could fast, pray and move closer to an understanding of God: places where they could see angels. Columba, who founded the famous monastery at Iona, was the most well-known of these courageous men who rowed their curraghs towards danger and uncertainty in a pagan land, but the many others are now largely forgotten by history. In this book, Alistair Moffat journeys from the island of Eileach an Naoimh at the mouth of the Firth of Lorne to Lismore, Iona and then north to Applecross, searching for traces of these extraordinary men. He finds them not often in any tangible remains, but in the spirit of the islands and remote places where they passed their exemplary lives. Brendan, Moluag, Columba, Maelrubha and others brought the Gaelic language and echoes of how the saints saw their world can still be heard in its cadences. And the tradition of great piety endures. “This account of four journeys to three small islands and a remote peninsula in the Scottish north-west has an air of exotic adventure.” —The Times Literary Supplement “I was drawn to Moffat’s personal response to pilgrimage as he retraced the spiritual journeys of the early monks . . . This delightful book is part history, part pilgrimage.” —Church Times
Author : Mike Cawthorne
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857907956
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Wild Voices written by Mike Cawthorne and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journeys in this book are tales of adventure on foot and by canoe through some of the last wild places in Scotland. Each journey is haunted by the ghost of another writer - Neil Gunn, Iain Thomson, Rowena Farre - who has left behind the trace of his or her own experience of these isolated hills, glens, streams or lochs. Travelling in time as well as space, Mike Cawthorne gains a new perspective on burning contemporary issues such as land ownership, renewable energy, conservation and depopulation. On one level these are exciting and lyrical evocations of wild walks and nature in the raw, like the description of winter treks in one of Mike's earlier books, Hell of a Journey. On another level they explore the meaning of Scotland's surviving wilderness to wanderers in the past and its vital importance to us in the present day.
Author : Nicholas Lash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521566353
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (663 download)
Download or read book The Beginning and the End of 'Religion' written by Nicholas Lash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common view that 'religion' is something quite separate from politics, art, science, law and economics is one that is peculiar to modern Western culture. In this book Professor Lash argues that we should begin to question seriously that viewpoint: the modern world is ending and we are now in a position to discover new forms of ancient wisdom, which have been obscured from view. These essays explore this idea in a number of directions, examining the dialogue between theology and science, the secularity of Western culture and questions of Christian hope. Part One examines the dialogue between Christianity and Hinduism, while Part Two considers the relations between theology and science, the secularity of Western culture, and questions of Christian hope, or eschatology.
Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039109449
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Voices of Carlo Levi- Le Voci Di Carlo Levi written by Joseph Farrell and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a writer, Carlo Levi has had the misfortune to be known as the author of one book, Christ Stopped at Eboli, the account of his years of internal banishment by the Fascist authorities to a remote village in the south of Italy. That book was recognised as a masterpiece of anti-Fascist literature and as a sensitive investigation of the way of life of a people at the margins of European civilisation. It enjoyed enormous success in the post-war period not only in Italy but also in Britain and the USA, and has been continuously in print since its first publication. However, Levi was also a painter of some repute, a novelist, a journalist, a critic of art and society, a political commentator, and above all, a wholly idiosyncratic travel writer whose reports on the countries and regions he visited, including Sicily, Sardinia, Germany, the USSR and India, were also reflections on Italy. This book attempts to assess the totality of Levi's achievement. Come scrittore, Carlo Levi ha avuto la sfortuna di essere celebrato come autore di un libro solo, Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli, la narrativa dei suoi anni di confino nel Mezzogiorno sotto il regime fascista. Sin dal momento della sua pubblicazione nel primo dopoguerra, questo libro è stato riconosciuto come capolavoro della letteratura anti-fascista e come indagine penetrante della cultura di un popolo ai margini della civiltà europea. Comunque, Levi fu anche pittore di grande talento, romanziere, critico d'arte, critico della società, commentatore politico e viaggiatore-scrittore di libri di viaggi sui generis. I suoi articoli, che poi divennero libri, sui paesi e sulle regioni che visitò - la Sicilia, la Sardegna, la Germania e l'India - si rivelarono anche riflessioni sulla condizione dell'Italia. Questa raccolta di saggi è una rivalutazione della totalità delle opere di Carlo Levi.
Author : Alan Riach
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1804250368
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Scottish Literature written by Alan Riach and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, sets out to guide you through the varied and ever-evolving landscape of Scottish literature. A comprehensive and extensive work designed not only for scholars but also for the generally curious, Scottish Literature: an introduction tells the tale of Scotland's many voices across the ages, from Celtic pre-history to modern mass media. Forsaking critical jargon, Riach journeys chronologically through individual works and writers, both the famed and the forgotten, alongside broad overviews of cultural contexts which connect texts to their own times. Expanding the restrictive canon of days gone by, Riach also sets down a new core body of 'Scottish Literature': key writers and works in English, Scots, and Gaelic. Ranging across time and genre, Scottish Literature: an introduction invites you to hear Scotland through her own words.
Author : Maurice Lindsay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474470270
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry written by Maurice Lindsay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
Author : Conor Mark Jameson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408194074
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Silent Spring Revisited written by Conor Mark Jameson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the publication of the seminal Silent Spring, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on Rachel Carson's legacy and asks the question - are we still silencing the spring?
Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857902288
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Britain's Last Frontier written by Alistair Moffat and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scottish historian travels along the cultural and geographical border of the Highlands in this “seductive travelogue” (Scottish Field). Running from the northeast to the southwest of Scotland, the Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognized by the Roman general Agricola in the first century AD, it divides the country in many senses—signaling the border between Highland and Lowland; Celtic and English-speaking; crofting and farming. In Britain's Last Frontier Alistair Moffat makes a journey of the imagination, tracing the route of the Line from the River Clyde through Perthshire and the North-east. In addition to exploring the huge importance of the Line over almost two thousand years, he also shows how it continues to influence life and attitudes in 21st-century Scotland. The result is a fascinating book full of history and anecdote.
Author : Ross David
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857909517
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Awa' An' Bile Yer Heid! written by Ross David and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Ross has produced an extraordinary, eclectic and hilarious collection of thematically arranged Scottish insults, abuse and invective which has been wonderfully illustrated throughout by Rupert Besley. The best insults, according to the author, occupy an indefinite space between wit and abuse, containing elements of both to varying degree; they must always sting the victim, or else they are a failure. This book is full of rich and expressive examples of insult and invective for all occasions from all over Scotland. These have been passed down through the centuries or have emerged in modern times, proving that clever insults are infinitely more amusing and memorable than good jokes. And so, happy reading. If you don't like it, awa' an' bile yer heid!
