Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publisher: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 0285640038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Butcher's Broom is one of Gunn's epic recreations of a key period in Scottish history, the Highland clearances of the nineteenth century. Gunn captures the spirit of Highland culture, the sense of community and tradition, in a manner that speaks to our own time. At the centre of the novel is Dark Mairi who embodies what is most vital and lasting in mankind, whose values encapsulate what was lost in Scotland to make way for progress while her land was cleared to make way for wintering sheep. The weaving of traditional ballads with the lives of Gunn's characters evokes the community that must be destroyed. Elie lost among strangers with her fatherless child while Seonaid defies the invaders, fighting them from the roof of her croft. This is among the most moving of Gunn's works and establishes the belief in a transcendent spirituality that would be so dominant in his later work.
Butcher's Broom
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publisher: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 0285640038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Butcher's Broom is one of Gunn's epic recreations of a key period in Scottish history, the Highland clearances of the nineteenth century. Gunn captures the spirit of Highland culture, the sense of community and tradition, in a manner that speaks to our own time. At the centre of the novel is Dark Mairi who embodies what is most vital and lasting in mankind, whose values encapsulate what was lost in Scotland to make way for progress while her land was cleared to make way for wintering sheep. The weaving of traditional ballads with the lives of Gunn's characters evokes the community that must be destroyed. Elie lost among strangers with her fatherless child while Seonaid defies the invaders, fighting them from the roof of her croft. This is among the most moving of Gunn's works and establishes the belief in a transcendent spirituality that would be so dominant in his later work.
Publisher: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 0285640038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Butcher's Broom is one of Gunn's epic recreations of a key period in Scottish history, the Highland clearances of the nineteenth century. Gunn captures the spirit of Highland culture, the sense of community and tradition, in a manner that speaks to our own time. At the centre of the novel is Dark Mairi who embodies what is most vital and lasting in mankind, whose values encapsulate what was lost in Scotland to make way for progress while her land was cleared to make way for wintering sheep. The weaving of traditional ballads with the lives of Gunn's characters evokes the community that must be destroyed. Elie lost among strangers with her fatherless child while Seonaid defies the invaders, fighting them from the roof of her croft. This is among the most moving of Gunn's works and establishes the belief in a transcendent spirituality that would be so dominant in his later work.
The Reliquary
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Herbal Remedies
Author: Frankie Avalon Wolfe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028633725
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Herbal remedies are laid bare in an insightful new guide that lists hundreds of herbs along with their scientific names, historic and current uses, and dosage advice, as well as plentiful advice on the role of such popular remedies as echinacea, ginseng, and St. John's Wort in curing a host of common ailments. Original.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028633725
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Herbal remedies are laid bare in an insightful new guide that lists hundreds of herbs along with their scientific names, historic and current uses, and dosage advice, as well as plentiful advice on the role of such popular remedies as echinacea, ginseng, and St. John's Wort in curing a host of common ailments. Original.
The Gardeners Dictionary; containing the methods of cultivating ... the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory and vineyard; ... interspersed with the history of the plants, ... the name of ... the ... species in Latin and English; ... together with accounts of the nature and use of barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers, ... and of the origin ... of meteors, etc
Author: Philip Miller
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Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Phytotherapy
Author: Francesco Capasso
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540000525
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This richly illustrated reference guide treats the subject of herbal medicines in an integrated fashion with reference to pharmacognosy, pharmacology and toxicology. It will help to enable internists, phytotherapists, physicians, healthcare practitioners as well as students to understand why, when and how herbal medicines can be used in the treatment of diseases. A great deal of pathology and therapeutic information is also included. Numerous tables as well as figures clarify complex mechanisms and other information. The most important medicinal plants and drugs are illustrated with exceptional color plates.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540000525
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This richly illustrated reference guide treats the subject of herbal medicines in an integrated fashion with reference to pharmacognosy, pharmacology and toxicology. It will help to enable internists, phytotherapists, physicians, healthcare practitioners as well as students to understand why, when and how herbal medicines can be used in the treatment of diseases. A great deal of pathology and therapeutic information is also included. Numerous tables as well as figures clarify complex mechanisms and other information. The most important medicinal plants and drugs are illustrated with exceptional color plates.
A Catalogue of Hardy Trees and Shrubs, Greenhouse and Stove Plants, Herbaceous Plants, and Fruit-Trees; with all sorts of seeds for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and for improving of lands; arranged by their English, and with their Latin Linnæan names. Also a large collection of bulbous roots ... sold by Luker and Smith, Nurserymen and Seedsmen, in the City-Road, etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Pages : 88
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Materia Medica; or, a description of simple medicines generally us'd in physick: ... demonstrating their uses, ... also their operating ... upon human bodies ... With an appendix, shewing the nature and use of mineral waters ... Translated into English. The second edition
Author: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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A New and Compleat Body of Practical Physic
Author: Edward Baylis
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Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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The reliquary; A depository for precious relics-legendary, biographical and historical, Illustrative of the habits, customs and pursuits of our forefathers
Author: Llewellynn Jewitt
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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