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Book Synopsis The Discovery of the Hebrides by : Elizabeth Bray
Download or read book The Discovery of the Hebrides written by Elizabeth Bray and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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
Book Synopsis The Changing Outer Hebrides by : Frank Rennie
Download or read book The Changing Outer Hebrides written by Frank Rennie and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Discovery of Australia by : George Collingridge
Download or read book The Discovery of Australia written by George Collingridge and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 245 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 Discovery of the Solomon Islands by : William Amhurst Thyssen Amherst
Download or read book The Discovery of the Solomon Islands written by William Amhurst Thyssen Amherst and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568 by : Lord Amherst of Hackney
Download or read book The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568 written by Lord Amherst of Hackney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four narratives, edited with introduction and notes, two of them by or attributed to Mendaña's companions, Hernando Gallego and Pedro Sarmiento. This and the following volume (Second Series 8) have continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1901.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568 by : William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst Baron Amherst
Download or read book The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568 written by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst Baron Amherst and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Outer Hebrides (Lewis, Harris, North and South Uist, Benbecula, And Barra). by : William Cook Mackenzie
Download or read book History of the Outer Hebrides (Lewis, Harris, North and South Uist, Benbecula, And Barra). written by William Cook Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era by : Karen McAulay
Download or read book Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era written by Karen McAulay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go 'into the field' to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald. Macdonald emigrated in 1760 - contemporaneously with the start of James Macpherson's famous but much disputed Ossian project - and it fell to the Revd. Patrick Macdonald to finish and subsequently publish his younger brother's collection. Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections, over the ensuing 130 years. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context and traces links with contemporary attitudes towards such wide-ranging topics as the embryonic tourism and travel industry; cultural nationalism; fakery and forgery; literary and musical creativity; and the move from antiquarianism and dilettantism towards an increasingly scholarly and didactic tone in the mid-to-late Victorian collections. Attention is given to some of the performance issues raised, either in correspondence or in the paratexts of published collections; and the narrative is interlaced with references to contemporary literary, social and even political history as it affected the collectors themselves. Most significantly, this study demonstrates a resurgence of cultural nationalism in the late nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by : Anonymous
Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro De Menda?a in 1568 by : Basil Thomson
Download or read book The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro De Menda?a in 1568 written by Basil Thomson and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the original Spanish manuscripts.
Book Synopsis The History of Our Country from the Discovery of America to the Present Time by : Edward Sylvester Ellis
Download or read book The History of Our Country from the Discovery of America to the Present Time written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland by : Thomas M. Curley
Download or read book Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland written by Thomas M. Curley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Macpherson's famous hoax, publishing his own poems as the writings of the ancient Scots bard Ossian in the 1760s, remains fascinating to scholars as the most successful literary fraud in history. This study presents the fullest investigation of his deception to date, by looking at the controversy from the point of view of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's dispute with Macpherson was an argument with wide implications not only for literature, but for the emerging national identities of the British nations during the Celtic revival. Thomas M. Curley offers a wealth of genuinely new information, detailing as never before Johnson's involvement in the Ossian controversy, his insistence on truth-telling, and his interaction with others in the debate. The appendix reproduces a rare pamphlet against Ossian written with the assistance of Johnson himself. This book will be an important addition to knowledge about both the Ossian controversy and Samuel Johnson.
Book Synopsis The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea by : George Collingridge
Download or read book The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea written by George Collingridge and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1906 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Format for easy reading. George Collingridge, the Australian historian, detailing his early assertion of the Portuguese discovery of Australia in the 16th century.
Book Synopsis From the Hebrides to the Himalayas by : Constance F. Cumming
Download or read book From the Hebrides to the Himalayas written by Constance F. Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand by : William Howitt
Download or read book The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand written by William Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: