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Author : Sydney Scroggie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907233418
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Cairngorms, Scene & Unseen written by Sydney Scroggie and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sydney Scroggie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780907521259
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Cairngorms Scene and Unseen written by Sydney Scroggie and published by . This book was released on 1989-09-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Baker
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 085790809X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book The Cairngorms written by Patrick Baker and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travelogue exploring the colorful history of the Scottish mountain range, by the author of The Unremembered Places. Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery. There have been rare human incursions into the Cairngorm plateau, and Patrick Baker tracks them down. He traces elusive wildlife and relives ghostly sightings on the summit of Ben Macdui. From the search for a long-forgotten climbing shelter and the locating of ancient gem mines, to the discovery of skeletal aircraft remains and the hunt for a mysterious nineteenth-century aristocratic settlement, he seeks out the unlikeliest and most interesting of features in places far off the beaten track. The cultural and human impact of this stunning landscape and reflections on the history of mountaineering are the threads which bind this compelling narrative together. Praise for The Cairngorms “Perfect . . . full of ghosts of walkers past.” —Conde Nast Traveler “Describing a series of walks, Baker illuminates the bleak landscape, revealing the many stories linked to its ruined bothies, ancient gem mines and even haunted summits.” —FT Weekend “Exploring the Cairngorms has been a lifetime fascination for Patrick Baker and in this book he generously shares the results.” —Scotland Magazine “Packed with great stories and vivid descriptions.” —Scotland Outdoor
Author : Ronald Turnbull
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1783625260
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Walking in the Cairngorms written by Ronald Turnbull and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook contains over 100 routes for walking in the Cairngorms and Lochnagar, including 18 Munro summits, smaller hills, and trekking options. Walks range in length from 1 to 26 miles and are graded for difficulty. Classic summits include Macdui, Cairn Gorm, Braeriach, Cairn Toul and Lochnagar and this comprehensive guidebook also describes easier sandy trails through pine woodland and riverside walks along the Spey, Nethy and Dee. The routes are split into seven parts, and along with the main Cairngorm range between Speyside and Deeside, cover Lochnagar. Mountain walks are illustrated with sketch maps, while the low-level and mid-level routes have 1:50,000 mapping. Icons at the start of each route indicate type of walk (low level, mid-level or mountain) and ratings of its length and difficulty. Information on snack stops, public transport and accommodation is provided for each area, as well as a route summary table, scrambles summary and grading. A detailed 'Summit Summary' is included for five hills - Macdui, Cairn Gorm, Braeriach, Cairn Toul and Lochnagar - these are the hills you will want to ascend lots of times by many different routes.
Author : Merryn Glover
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788855175
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
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
Author : Tony Smythe
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594859159
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)
Download or read book My Father, Frank written by Tony Smythe and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Biography of a seminal, but often unheralded, figure in high-altitude climbing • Written by his son, Tony, Frank Smythe was himself a prolific author • Important addition to Mountaineer Books’ Legends and Lore series Frank Smythe, like Eric Shipton, is associated with early Everest explorations and was a member of three expeditions to the mountain. At a time when it was ungentlemanly to make a living by climbing, Smythe wrote more than a dozen popular books based upon his travels to high places -- one of them being the first ascent of Kamet (25,447 feet) in 1931, which was the first time any climber had gone beyond 25,000 feet. Two years later, he reached the highest point climbed on Everest (28,200 feet). He also climbed in Britain, the Alps, Canada, and Alaska. He and Graham Brown established two new routes on the Brevna face of Mont Blanc. In short, he has serious climbing credentials. As the title hints, this is a biography by Frank’s son Tony, but it isn’t based solely on personal memories; Frank was away from home for long periods and died when Tony was only fourteen. Instead, this book is based on thirteen years of research: Frank’s parents’ meeting and marriage, Frank’s early school years, his first climbs, his training for various jobs, his gradual rise to fame and fortune, his friendships, his war years, and his sudden death are all covered. Like his father, Tony has a strong understanding of how to tell a story that appeals to both climbers and general lovers of nonfiction adventures.
Author : Robin Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Sandstone Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908737395
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Sunlit Summit written by Robin Lloyd-Jones and published by Sandstone Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Hutchison Murray (1913 - 1996) was one of Scotland's most distinguished climbers in the years before and after the Second World War. As a prisoner of war in Italy he wrote his first classic book, Mountaineering in Scotland, on rough toilet paper which was confiscated and destroyed by the Gestapo. The rewritten version was published in 1947 and followed by the, now, equally famous, Undiscovered Scotland. In 1951 he was depute leader to Eric Shipton on the Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, which discovered the eventual successful route which would be climbed by Hilary and Tensing. From the 1960s onwards he was heavily involved in conservation campaigns and his book, Highland Landscape, commissioned by the National Trust for Scotland, identified areas of outstanding beauty that should be protected. It proved to be extremely influential. In 1966 he was awarded an OBE as he pursued a life of service, as is well illustrated by the various posts he held: Commissioner for the Countryside Commission for Scotland (1968-1980); President of the Scottish Mountaineering Club (1962-1964) and of the Ramblers Association Scotland (1966-82); Chairman of Scottish Countryside Activities Council (1967-82); Vice-President of the Alpine Club (1971-72); President of Mountaineering Council of Scotland (1972-75). He was a prolific author but a proper understanding of his life and work requires that we appreciate that his driving force was a quest to achieve inner purification that would lead him to oneness with Truth and Beauty. For many years the climber, author and teacher, Robin Lloyd-Jones (above) has been researching the life and work of Bill Murray and working steadily on this biography. It is not only a triumph of fine writing and interest, but a worthy accolade for this great man.
Author : Andrew Blaikie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748686312
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Scots Imagination and Modern Memory written by Andrew Blaikie and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaikie explores how our different ways of seeing influence the relationship between place and belonging. He argues that our memories, however brief or complex, invoke imagined pasts. But do our recollections share a common frame of reference? Blaikie's c
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 : Ralph Storer
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910022365
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Corrour Bothy written by Ralph Storer and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his newest publication, Ralph concentrates on the history of Corrour Bothy. The book tells the story of the oldest and most famous bothy in the world, celebrating a century of public use in 2020. The book blends visitors' book entries with historical accounts. Through visitors' book entries between the years of 1928 and the present day, Ralph outlines bothy life, the history of the Highlands, of hillwalking and of climbing and thereby provides a portrait of the past 100 years from a unique perspective centred on the Cairngorms.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tocher written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474469531
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Whaleback City written by and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whaleback City is a unique anthology of poems inspired by the city of Dundee and its surroundings. In it you will find poems about the city, its history, its architecture and its landscape. There are poems spanning six centuries, capturing the spirit and temperament of its people, both celebrated and ordinary. Poets range from Sir Walter Scott and William McGonagall through to contemporary voices such as Douglas Dunn and Don Paterson. The poems themselves speak of subjects as diverse as the Tay and its bridges, the Jute industry, Liz McColgan, the People's Friend, Dens Road Market and a hundred other things that are uniquely Dundonian. Whether you love poetry or you love Dundee, this is a very special collection saluting Scotland's most industrious and enterprising city.
Author : Robert A. Lambert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contested Mountains written by Robert A. Lambert and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays showing that concerns about climate change are far from being a uniquely modern phenomenon. It traces the origins of environmental debates about soil erosion, deforestation, and climate change in the writings of early colonial administrators, doctors and missionaries. The author traces what is known and what can be inferred about El Nino events centuries before the devastating 1997/1998 effects. In a concluding essay he analyzes the general significance of marginal land and its ecology in the history of popular resistance movements.
Author : Magnus Magnusson
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Scotland written by Magnus Magnusson and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illustrated study of the interdependence of the landscape, the wildlife and the people of Scotland. It begins with Scotland's violent birth, and retells tales of the early hunters who followed the retreating ice and the first farmers who cleared the land and began farming. The authors go on to discuss the implicit conflicts in the use of land today, and the state of the environment and the other forces which have transformed the landscape and wildlife today.
Author : William Arthur Poucher
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scottish Peaks written by William Arthur Poucher and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth revised edition of a guide for hillwalkers and scramblers, with notes on taking good mountain photographs. Included are summit routes superimposed on photographs and maps and advice on clothing, equipment and accommodation.
Author : Edward J. Cowan
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ballad in Scottish History written by Edward J. Cowan and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection aims to investigate the value of the Scottish ballads for historians of the period from the middle ages to the early 20th century. The role played by collectors such as Ramsay, Burns, Scott and Hogg is surveyed as are such themes as contemporaneity, fairy belief, the Border Ballads, 19th-century protest ballads and the songs of the 20th-century travelling fraternity.
Author : Bernard Dolman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Who's who in Art written by Bernard Dolman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
