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Book Synopsis The Hebrides at War by : Mike Hughes
Download or read book The Hebrides at War written by Mike Hughes and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Oban and the Hebrides in World War 2 has remained largely untold. Yet it was in the Atlantic that Britain came closest to defeat as U-Boat Wolf Packs hunted down and destroyed the convoys which were Britain's first line to survival.
Book Synopsis The Drowned and the Saved by : Les Wilson
Download or read book The Drowned and the Saved written by Les Wilson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Next morning at about 6 o'clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore. My father had gone with others to look for survivors ... I don't think any survivors came in at Port Ellen but bodies did. The loss of two British ships crammed with American soldiers bound for the trenches of the First World War brought the devastation of war directly to the shores of the Scottish island of Islay. The sinking of the troopship Tuscania by a German U-Boat on 5 February 1918 was the first major loss of US troops in in the war. Eight months after the people of Islay had buried more than 200 Tuscania dead, the armed merchant cruiser Otranto collided with another troopship during a terrible storm. Despite a valiant rescue attempt by HMS Mounsay, the Otranto drifted towards Islay, hit a reef, throwing 600 men into the water. Just 19 survived; the rest were drowned or crushed by the wreckage. Based on the harrowing personal recollection of survivors and rescuers, newspaper reports and original research, Les Wilson tells the story of these terrible events, painting a vivid picture which also pays tribute to the astonishing bravery of the islanders, who risked their lives pulling men from the sea, caring for survivors and burying the dead.
Book Synopsis Island Heroes by : Islands Book Trust (Scotland)
Download or read book Island Heroes written by Islands Book Trust (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost every township throughout the Islands has its war memorial inscribed with scores of names, but how much do we really know about the role of the Hebrides and her people in wartime? The Islands Book Trust held a three-day conference to address exactly this question. 'Island Heroes - The Hebrides and UK Military History' took place in the Isle of Lewis, where a range of excellent speakers discussed the disproportionate contribution and sacrifice made by islanders to UK military campaigns over at least the last 250 years and the role of the Hebrides during World War Two. This book brings together the various contributions - looking at warfare from a uniquely island perspective.
Book Synopsis World War Two in the Hebrides by : Mike Hughes
Download or read book World War Two in the Hebrides written by Mike Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Hebrides at War by : Reece Discombe
Download or read book The New Hebrides at War written by Reece Discombe and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Our Journey to the Hebrides by : Pennell Joseph
Download or read book Our Journey to the Hebrides written by Pennell Joseph and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Our Journey to the Hebrides by : Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Download or read book Our Journey to the Hebrides written by Elizabeth Robins Pennell and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Sea Room written by Adam Nicolson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad—"Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres. . . . Puffins and seals. Apply."—and thus found the Shiants. With a name meaning "holy or enchanted islands," the Shiants for millennia were a haven for those seeking solitude, but their rich, sometimes violent history of human habitation includes much more. When he was twenty-one, Nicolson inherited this almost indescribably beautiful property: a landscape, soaked in centuries-old tales of restless ghosts and Bronze Age gold, that cradles the heritage of a once-vibrant world of farmers and fishermen. In Sea Room, Nicolson describes and relives his love affair with the three tiny islands and their strange and colorful history in passionate, keenly precise prose—sharing with us the greatest gift an island bestows on its inhabitants: a deep engagement with the natural world.
Download or read book Call the Nurse written by Mary J. MacLeod and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends. In anecdotes that are by turns funny, sad, moving, and tragic, she recalls them all, the crofters and their laird, the boatmen and tradesmen, young lovers and forbidding churchmen. Against the old-fashioned island culture and the grandeur of mountain and sea unfold indelible stories: a young woman carried through snow for airlift to the hospital; a rescue by boat; the marriage of a gentle giant and the island beauty; a ghostly encounter; the shocking discovery of a woman in chains; the flames of a heather fire at night; an unexploded bomb from World War II; and the joyful, tipsy celebration of a ceilidh. Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland.
Book Synopsis The Isles of Flame by : M E M 1876-1958 Donaldson
Download or read book The Isles of Flame written by M E M 1876-1958 Donaldson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the adventure in this breathtaking historical romance set in the Inner Hebrides in the time of Saint Columba. Two star-crossed lovers are brought together by fate and torn apart by war. Will they overcome all odds and find a way back to each other? Full of passion, betrayal, and breathtaking scenery, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland by : John Walker
Download or read book An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland written by John Walker and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Martin's Journey to the Hebrides, 1695 by :
Download or read book Martin's Journey to the Hebrides, 1695 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhanna at War written by Clifford Hanley and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the warm, tight-knit community, the little island in the peaceful Hebrides seemed remote from the horrors of war. For Shona Mackenzie, on leave in her beloved home, it offered a chance to recover from the nightmare of the bombing, and from her broken heart.
Book Synopsis The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell, by : James Boswell
Download or read book The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell, written by James Boswell and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T053594 A number of variants exist: in some copies C2, C7, E3, E4 or M4 are cancels; p. 121 line 4 from the bottom ends with "in-," with the first word of line 3 being "induced," in the second state this is corrected; p. 237 lines 6-7 read ..". the former and the London: printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785. vii, [1],524, [2]p.; 8°
Book Synopsis The Land of the Hills and the Glens by : Seton Gordon
Download or read book The Land of the Hills and the Glens written by Seton Gordon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Land of the Hills and the Glens: Wild Life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides IN the following pages I have attempted to portray some of the charm and the varying moods of the Hebridean coasts. In the chapters the reader will find something about the wild life of that country, and I have also endeavoured to describe a little of the people and their traditions. For the first two years of the war I was stationed on the Island of Mull, and in my duties of coast-watching there and on the surrounding islands had exceptional opportunities of seeing the country and of getting to know its inhabitants, for my work took me constantly to the most out-of-the-way places. I can honestly say that I have never met with people possessing more charm and hospitality than those dwellers of the Inner Hebrides. The Highland crofter or fisherman is almost always one of Nature's gentlemen, and is full of an altogether exceptional consideration and kindliness towards the stranger. In many of the coast-watchers I found firm and loyal friends, and consider that I was very fortunate in having such people to work with. Since the war I have revisited the Hebridean Islands, studying and photographing the birds and renewing old friendships. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Hebridean Sharker written by Tex Geddes and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Hebridean Sharker' Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter of basking sharks in the waters of the Minch, between the Inner and Outer Hebrides. Using an adapted whaling harpoon, he and his crew stalked these huge fish often in perilous conditions, the liver of which is a valuable source of oil. Always a maverick, before World War Two Geddes had been a boxer and a rumrunner to Newfoundland. During the war he established a reputation as an expert knife-thrower and bayonet fencer and served in the Special Forces with Gavin Maxwell (author of Ring of Bright Water). He combined the hazardous pursuit of sharks with crewing the local lifeboat, ring-net fishing, lobstering, deer-stalking and salmon poaching. He went on to purchase the tiny island of Soay, where he lived with his wife Jeanne, continued to hunt sharks and became the Laird. His story is full of adventures and fantastic descriptions of a seagoing life in the islands. It has become a Hebridean classic.
Book Synopsis Love of Country by : Madeleine Bunting
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
