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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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The Crofter and the Laird
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374131929
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors—Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland—a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken residence on the island for two or three hundred years; the rest, including the English laird who owned Colonsay, were “incomers.” Donald McNeill, the crofter of the title, was working out his existence in this last domain of the feudal system; the laird, the fourth Baron Strathcona, lived in Bath, appeared on Colonsay mainly in the summer, and accepted with nonchalance the fact that he was the least popular man on the island he owned. While comparing crofter and laird, McPhee gives readers a deep and rich portrait of the terrain, the history, the legends, and the people of this fragment of the Hebrides.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374131929
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors—Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland—a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken residence on the island for two or three hundred years; the rest, including the English laird who owned Colonsay, were “incomers.” Donald McNeill, the crofter of the title, was working out his existence in this last domain of the feudal system; the laird, the fourth Baron Strathcona, lived in Bath, appeared on Colonsay mainly in the summer, and accepted with nonchalance the fact that he was the least popular man on the island he owned. While comparing crofter and laird, McPhee gives readers a deep and rich portrait of the terrain, the history, the legends, and the people of this fragment of the Hebrides.
Scotia
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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The American Cyclopaedia
Author: George Ripley
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Islandeering
Author: Lisa Drewe
Publisher: Wild Things Publishing
ISBN: 9781910636176
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walk, scramble, cycle, wade or even swim around the outer edge of our wildest islands. Islandeering provides all the information you need to circumnavigate 50 amazing hidden islands off the shores of England, Scotland & Wales. From Essex, Somerset and Cornwall to Pembrokeshire, Northumberland and the Hebrides; follow wild foreshores and remote coast paths. Complete each journey to discover a magical archipelago world. 50 islands to bag, with routes from easy to difficult and detailed directions with GPX downloads. Beautiful photography and maps. Hidden islands for the best wildlife, local food, swimming, wild camping, secret beaches, coasteering, legends and foraging. Engaging writing charting historical, geographical and wildlife highlights. Tips for coasteering, scrambling, camping, wild swimming and kayaking.
Publisher: Wild Things Publishing
ISBN: 9781910636176
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walk, scramble, cycle, wade or even swim around the outer edge of our wildest islands. Islandeering provides all the information you need to circumnavigate 50 amazing hidden islands off the shores of England, Scotland & Wales. From Essex, Somerset and Cornwall to Pembrokeshire, Northumberland and the Hebrides; follow wild foreshores and remote coast paths. Complete each journey to discover a magical archipelago world. 50 islands to bag, with routes from easy to difficult and detailed directions with GPX downloads. Beautiful photography and maps. Hidden islands for the best wildlife, local food, swimming, wild camping, secret beaches, coasteering, legends and foraging. Engaging writing charting historical, geographical and wildlife highlights. Tips for coasteering, scrambling, camping, wild swimming and kayaking.
The Potter's Tale
Author: Dion Alexander
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Potter's Tale is a story of one man's journey of discovery and self discovery on one of the most beautiful islands on the Hebrides – Colonsay. Dion Alexander was 'the Colonsay Potter' through the 1970s and his own story is interwoven with that of some of the legendary characters of the islands in that period, one of the last in which Gaelic came naturally to the community. It is also the story of beginning to think about how to keep a small remote community dominated by a landed estate alive and viable in the face of modern pressures. The Colonsay of the 1970s had no electricity or affordable housing and an erratic ferry service. The book is an autobiography, a reflection of a world still close in time but in some ways very distant interwoven with much of history, tradition and folklore, and a moving account of the trials, triumphs and tribulations of a small community. Above all it is woven with a deep love of the magical place that is Colonsay.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Potter's Tale is a story of one man's journey of discovery and self discovery on one of the most beautiful islands on the Hebrides – Colonsay. Dion Alexander was 'the Colonsay Potter' through the 1970s and his own story is interwoven with that of some of the legendary characters of the islands in that period, one of the last in which Gaelic came naturally to the community. It is also the story of beginning to think about how to keep a small remote community dominated by a landed estate alive and viable in the face of modern pressures. The Colonsay of the 1970s had no electricity or affordable housing and an erratic ferry service. The book is an autobiography, a reflection of a world still close in time but in some ways very distant interwoven with much of history, tradition and folklore, and a moving account of the trials, triumphs and tribulations of a small community. Above all it is woven with a deep love of the magical place that is Colonsay.
A New Universal Gazetteer
Author: Jedidiah Morse
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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The Gazetteer of Scotland
Author: Scotland
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Bibliotheca Scotia
Author: John Smith & Sons
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The American Cyclopædia
Author: George Ripley
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Category : Encyclopedias
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category : Encyclopedias
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The Annals of Scottish Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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