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Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152163594
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (635 download)
Download or read book The Pictish Child written by Jane Yolen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover published in 1999
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606250269
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Pictish Child written by Jane Yolen and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visiting relatives in Scotland, three children come to the aid of a refugee from the distant past, a young Pict girl escaping a massacre of her people.
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152163655
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (636 download)
Download or read book The Wizard's Map written by Jane Yolen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three children visiting relatives in Scotland become involved in the plans of a diabolical wizard.
Author : Arthur Ransome
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922288
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Picts and the Martyrs written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2008-02-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two Blackett sisters are to stay at Beckfoot on the lakeshore with their cook, but when their great aunt hears of the abandonment, she's on the next train.
Author : Clayton N. Donoghue
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460292901
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Picts of Scotland written by Clayton N. Donoghue and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the dominant culture in the northern reaches of the British Isles, the Picts, renowned for the blue tattoos that gave them their name, were known as a formidable enemy by the armies of Roman Emperor Severus. Their prominence rose as early as 350 BC and continued until at least AD 900. Then, 1,100 years ago, they vanished from history. Although many consider them the predecessors of modern Scots, little is known about them outside of limited archaeological artefacts and mentions of them left by the Romans. In this thorough and compelling exploration of extant historical sources, we finally have a clearer picture of this enigmatic people. Clayton N. Donoghue argues that much of what we consider culturally Scottish actually has its roots in the Picts, and that they had a more dynamic and rich culture than previously thought. This book fills in the gaps and helps to paint a clearer picture of a people that the Romans considered ferocious savages living in a desolate and frozen waste land. As we now know, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Author : Tim Clarkson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1907909036
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Picts written by Tim Clarkson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British historian explores the mysterious Scottish culture of the Iron Age and Early Middle Ages whose enigmatic symbols adorn standing stones. The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they lost their unique identity, their language and their vibrant artistic culture. Among their few surviving traces are standing stones decorated with incredible skill and covered with enigmatic symbols. The Pictish Stones offer some of the few remaining clues to the powerful and gifted people who bequeathed no chronicles to tell the sagas of their kings and heroes. In this book, Medieval historian Tim Clarkson pieces together the evidence to tell the story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance.
Author : Benjamin Hudson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118598326
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Picts written by Benjamin Hudson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Picts is a survey of the historical and cultural developments in northern Britain between AD 300 and AD 900. Discarding the popular view of the Picts as savages, they are revealed to have been politically successful and culturally adaptive members of the medieval European world. Re-interprets our definition of ‘Pict’ and provides a vivid depiction of their political and military organization Offers an up-to-date overview of Pictish life within the environment of northern Britain Explains how art such as the ‘symbol stones’ are historical records as well as evidence of creative inspiration. Draws on a range of transnational and comparative scholarship to place the Picts in their European context
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150402107X
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Bagpiper's Ghost written by Jane Yolen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy becomes possessed by an angry ghost after a visit to a Scottish graveyard Twins Jennifer and Peter rarely get along, except when it comes to their fascination with ghosts, magic, and mystery. While visiting their grandmother in Scotland, the 2 children sneak off to a graveyard—which unfortunately turns out to be a very, very bad idea. Jennifer and Peter were hoping to see the ghost of Mary MacFadden, who died of a broken heart when her brother, Andrew, forbade her marriage. Instead, Andrew’s angry ghost takes over Peter’s body, and if Jennifer and their grandmother can’t get the spirit to leave within 24 hours, Peter will be gone forever! A story rich in Scottish lore and supernatural surprises, The Bagpiper’s Ghost is a wonderful treat for young readers and for fantasy lovers of any age who remain gloriously and unapologetically youthful at heart. The Bagpiper’s Ghost is the 3rd Tartan Magic book, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Jane Yolen including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Carver Martin Carver
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748697683
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Portmahomack written by Carver Martin Carver and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portmahomack today is a serene fishing village on the Dornoch Firth, north east Scotland where archaeological excavations have written a new history of the origins of Scotland. This book brings alive the expedition and its discoveries, most famously a monastery of the eighth century in the land of the Picts.Starting from chance finds of a Pictish carved stone in St Colman's churchyard, the archaeologists unearthed four settlements one on top of the other. An elite farm was succeeded by the Pictish monastery, which, following a Viking raid in AD800, became a trading place and then a medieval village. Scientific analysis shows at each stage where the people came from, their life-style and what they ate. Together it creates a story of the heroic adaptation of a European nation to new politics between the sixth and sixteenth century.The Picts were the outstanding sculptors of their day, producing carved stone monuments equal to anything being made in contemporary Europe. They were Britons, who resisted the Romans invaders and created their own warrior nation in the north east of the island. Coming under pressure from the Scots and the Norse, they disappeared from history in the ninth century AD. Now archaeology is finding them again.This massively updated new edition follows eight years intensive research on the huge assemblage of artefacts, human bone, animal bone and plant remains that were recovered. This has revealed a world of high mobility, rich in ideas and constantly changing it political orientation in a greater European context.
Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Child of Prophecy written by Juliet Marillier and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0804150893
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Witch of Clatteringshaws written by Joan Aiken and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dido Twite’s sharp wits are put to the test in this new adventure in the Wolves Chronicles. After King Richard dies, Dido’s good pal Simon is put on the English throne, but he hates being cooped up in drafty St. James Palace, and his crusty old advisors won’t let him have any fun at all. If only another descendent of the king could be found, Simon would gladly be replaced. Never short a solution, Dido discovers a lead to another member of the royal line. But no one knows exactly who—or where—the child is. The masterful storyteller Joan Aiken once again invites readers into a spellbinding world of magic, mystery, and mayhem—with a dose of “proper” English hilarity, of course.
Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429913541
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Foxmask written by Juliet Marillier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foxmask is the second book of a fantasy duet from Juliet Marillier, weaving history and folklore into a saga of adventure, romance, and magic. The Norseman Eyvind, a fierce and loyal Wolfskin, came to a new land on top of the world to find his destiny. With his priestess bride Nessa he saved the land and weathered the treachery that was caused by Eyvind's blood-sworn friend Somerled. After much pain and sorrow the two lovers have managed to create a society where the Norse warriors and the gentle folks of the Orkney Isles live and thrive in contentment at last. A decade and more has passed since the devastating events of the creation of the settlement and Eyvind and Nessa have watched their children grow and thrive in peace. But not all on the islands are content or at peace. Thorvald, the young son of Margaret, widow of the slain king and Eyvind's war leader, has always felt apart and at odds with all he knows. He learns upon his coming to manhood that he is not his father's son but that of the love that Margaret bore for the hated Somerled and that Somerled was not killed for his treachery but sent on a boat, adrift with little more than a knife and skein of water, doomed to the god's will. Thorvald is determined to find a boat and cast off to the West in a desperate bid to find a father he never knew...and to find out if he is made of the same stuff as the heinous traitor. The tragedy of this scheme would be horrific enough...if it were not for the fact that Creidhe, the winsome daughter of Eyvind and Nessa has loved Thorvald since birth and unbeknownst to him conspires to go along on this most perilous of quests. What happens to them on their journey of discovery will ultimately change the lives of all they know and love...and will doom (or redeem) an entire people. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Celtic Scotland: History and ethnology written by William Forbes Skene and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Celtic Scotland written by William Forbes Skene and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429913460
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Daughter of the Forest written by Juliet Marillier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Summary of Tim Clarkson's The Picts written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-10T22:59:00Z with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The modern visitor to the Highland areas of Scotland encounters the Picts through their spectacular artistic legacy. They made their first appearance in the historical record in the third century, when their raiding activities troubled the authorities of Roman Britain. They vanished from the pages of history in the eighth century. #2 The king-list is a source of data for the early history of Scotland, but it is also a valuable contemporary source on the Picts. It dates back to the eighth century, and its oldest surviving manuscript is a product of some six centuries later. #3 The Irish annals are the most useful Celtic sources for learning about the Picts. They are a group of texts whose creators noted historical events as brief entries in a year-by-year format. The Iona Chronicle, a copy of which was taken to Ireland, was incorporated into the Irish annals. #4 Other sources are more esoteric and include legendary material presented as genuine history. The Prophecy of Berchan, for example, is a king-list which gives for each monarch his reign-length, his place of death, and other information.
Author : Anne Rodwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The child's first step to Scottish history written by Anne Rodwell and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
