Author: Oliver Southall
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789147123
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A cultural history of a reddish, much-loved shrub, sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Rowan is the first in-depth natural and cultural history of this much-loved plant sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Through myth, medicine, literature, land art, and contemporary rewilding, Oliver Southall uncovers the many meanings of this singular reddish, fruit shrub: a potent symbol of nostalgia on the one hand and of environmental activism on the other. Taking the reader on an eclectic journey across history, Rowan charts our changing relationships with nature and landscape, raising urgent questions about how we value and relate to the non-human world.
Rowan
Author: Oliver Southall
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789147123
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A cultural history of a reddish, much-loved shrub, sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Rowan is the first in-depth natural and cultural history of this much-loved plant sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Through myth, medicine, literature, land art, and contemporary rewilding, Oliver Southall uncovers the many meanings of this singular reddish, fruit shrub: a potent symbol of nostalgia on the one hand and of environmental activism on the other. Taking the reader on an eclectic journey across history, Rowan charts our changing relationships with nature and landscape, raising urgent questions about how we value and relate to the non-human world.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789147123
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A cultural history of a reddish, much-loved shrub, sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Rowan is the first in-depth natural and cultural history of this much-loved plant sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Through myth, medicine, literature, land art, and contemporary rewilding, Oliver Southall uncovers the many meanings of this singular reddish, fruit shrub: a potent symbol of nostalgia on the one hand and of environmental activism on the other. Taking the reader on an eclectic journey across history, Rowan charts our changing relationships with nature and landscape, raising urgent questions about how we value and relate to the non-human world.
Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne; with a memoir and poems of Caroline Oliphant the younger. Edited by ... C. Rogers ... With a portrait and other illustrations
Author: afterwards NAIRNE OLIPHANT (Baroness Nairne., Carolina)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne. With a Memoir and Poems of Caroline Oliphant the Younger. With a Portrait and Other Illustrations
Author: Baroness Carolina Oliphant Nairne
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland: 1660-1668
Author: Scotland
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Bonnie Scotland
Author: Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff
Publisher: Cambridge Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Lady Nairne and Her Songs
Author: George Henderson
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Category : Lyricists
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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Category : Lyricists
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne
Author: Baroness Carolina Oliphant Nairne Nairne
Publisher:
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Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Scotland
Author: Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Bonnie Scotland
Author: A.R. Hope Moncrieff
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752443251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Bonnie Scotland by A.R. Hope Moncrieff
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752443251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Bonnie Scotland by A.R. Hope Moncrieff
The Soap Man
Author: Roger Hutchinson
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857900749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owners. They fought back, and this is the story of that fight. The confrontation resulted in riot and land seizure and imprisonment for the islanders and the ultimate defeat for one of the most powerful men of his day. The Soap Man paints a beguiling portrait of the driven figure of Lord Leverhulme, but also looks for the first time at the infantry of his opposition: the men and women of Lewis and Harris who for long hard years fought the law, their landowner, local business opinion and the entire media, to preserve the settled crofting population of their islands.
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857900749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owners. They fought back, and this is the story of that fight. The confrontation resulted in riot and land seizure and imprisonment for the islanders and the ultimate defeat for one of the most powerful men of his day. The Soap Man paints a beguiling portrait of the driven figure of Lord Leverhulme, but also looks for the first time at the infantry of his opposition: the men and women of Lewis and Harris who for long hard years fought the law, their landowner, local business opinion and the entire media, to preserve the settled crofting population of their islands.