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Book Synopsis Brigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song by : Lauchie MacLellan
Download or read book Brigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song written by Lauchie MacLellan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first major study of its kind to be undertaken for a Scottish Gaelic singer. The forty-eight songs and nine folktales in the collection are transcribed from field recordings and presented as the singer performed them, with an English translation provided. All the songs are accompanied by musical transcriptions. The book also includes a brief autobiography in Lauchie MacLellan's entertaining narrative style. John Shaw has added extensive notes and references, as well as photos and maps. In an era of growing appreciation of Celtic cultures, Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song makes an important Gaelic tradition available to the general reader. The materials also serve as a unique, adaptable resource for those with more specialized research or teaching interests in ethnology/folklore, Canadian studies, Gaelic language, ethnomusicology, Celtic studies, anthropology, and social history.
Download or read book Ships Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Impact of Technological Change by : John Armstrong
Download or read book The Impact of Technological Change written by John Armstrong and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an in-depth study of the impact of the steamship on Britain during its first forty years, roughly between 1810 and 1850. It relates the early steamship to several industrial themes including diffusion; construction; modernisation; the role of government - particularly the difficult attempt to align laissez-faire politics with the greater need for public safety measures due to technological advance; business and finance; plus public reaction and tourism. The aim is to establish the significance of the steamship as a conduit of modernisation and societal change. It consists of a foreword, introduction, and fourteen chapters devoted to specific themes, structured to ensure each chapters build on the preceding chapter’s progress. Collectively, they demonstrate that the development of both experience and enterprise with steam power both gained and refined during this period made the mid-century expansion of steamship technology across Britain possible. Ultimately, it establishes that steamship services began to adapt to oceanic routes, steam began to integrate into the world economy, and the age of sail began to draw to a close.
Book Synopsis The Kingdom of MacBrayne by : N. S. Robins
Download or read book The Kingdom of MacBrayne written by N. S. Robins and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the shipowner David MacBrayne (1817-1907) is just as well-known as Samuel Cunard. Red-funnelled ships which bear his name continue to operate in the West Highlands a century after his death. "The Kingdom of MacBrayne" tells the story of David MacBrayne, his ships and his company, his predecessors, rivals and successors. It explores the world of the early steamships, their successes and failures, as well as their contribution to the ever-changing social fabric of the Highlands and Islands.Emigrants, tourists, ordinary travellers and crew members, from engineers to pursers, speak of the ships and their impact on their world. "The Kingdom of MacBrayne" is lavishly illustrated with drawings, paintings and photographs in black-and-white and colour, most of them shown here for the first time. Featuring the work of artists and model-makers, as well as advertisements and brochures, it examines, by word and image, the whole 'MacBrayne phenomenon', from the iconic, sword-bearing Highlander on ships' figureheads to Katie Morag in Struay.
Download or read book Iona written by Mairi MacArthur and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight rare poems, written at Iona monastery between 563AD and the early 8th century, translated from the original Latin and Gaelic and fully annotated with literary commentary.
Book Synopsis Ford–A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland by : John B. Stephenson
Download or read book Ford–A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland written by John B. Stephenson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highlands of Scotland, like the southern Appalachians of the United States, have long been a problem area in Great Britain, troubled with a fading economy and loss of population. Most books about the region, however, are popular volumes that romanticize a bygone way of life. This study of Ford, a village of some 160 people in western Argyllshire, thus fills a gap in the literature and provides a look at the present realities of Scottish life. Although the Highlands are by no means a homogeneous region, Ford in its size and makeup is perhaps a representative rural settlement. John Stephenson, who conducted extensive interviews in the village during 1981, focuses his study on the theme of survival, on whether this particular village shows signs of enduring as a community of people bound together by common interests and situations. Though necessarily tentative, his conclusions are optimistic. Ford has shown a recent increase in population, consisting almost entirely of newcomers, and though its residents have now a more varied background, they seem to have a sense of place, of belonging to the village. This book will provide new insights not only for those interested in life in the Highlands but also for all those interested in small communities in other parts of the world.
Download or read book Bell's Comet written by P. J. G. Ransom and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. J. G Ransom’s new study of Bell and the Comet and their place in history, written to mark the Comet bicentenary in 2012.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Book Synopsis The Great Highland Famine by : Tom M. Devine
Download or read book The Great Highland Famine written by Tom M. Devine and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this prize-winning and internationally acclaimed book. The author describes the classic themes of highland and Scottish history, including the clearances, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration in a subtle and intricate reconstruction based on a wide range of sources. This book should appeal to all those with an interest in Scottish history, the emigration of Scottish people and the Highland Clearances.
Book Synopsis Scientific and Technical Books in Print by :
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Caledonian Canal by : A.D. Cameron
Download or read book The Caledonian Canal written by A.D. Cameron and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the history of the sixty-mile, Scottish Highland canal and its significance to the region’s transportation and tourism. Thomas Telford’s plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich, and Loch Lochy with each other and the sea, was a huge undertaking that brought civil engineering to the Highlands on a heroic scale. Deep in the Highlands, far from the canal network of England, engineers forged their way through the Great Glen to construct the biggest canal of its day: twenty-two miles of artificial cutting and no fewer than twenty-eight locks. A.D. (Sandy) Cameron’s book has long been recognized as the authoritative work on the canal as well as a reliable and useful guide to the surrounding area. There are intriguing old plans, not discovered until 1992, and a survey of the dramatic rise in pleasure-craft traffic during the last two decades. But the highlight of the recent past was undoubtedly the Tall Ships passing through the canal in stately procession in 1991. Impossible, then, not to feel the fascination of this beautiful waterway: a working piece of industrial history and a remarkable engineering achievement. This book is a fitting celebration of this remarkable feat of engineering.
Download or read book Shipbuilding & Shipping Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Publishers' Trade List Annual by :
Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 2112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook for Travellers in Ireland. Third Edition, Revised, Etc by : John Murray (Firm)
Download or read book Handbook for Travellers in Ireland. Third Edition, Revised, Etc written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland ... Third Edition by : Adam BLACK (Publisher, and BLACK (Charles) Publisher.)
Download or read book Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland ... Third Edition written by Adam BLACK (Publisher, and BLACK (Charles) Publisher.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Publishers' Trade List Annual by : R. R. Bowker LLC
Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by R. R. Bowker LLC and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Subject Guide to Books in Print by :
Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 3310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
