Author: Alexander Sutherland (author of Tales of a pilgrim.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A summer ramble in the North Highlands [by A. Sutherland].
Author: Alexander Sutherland (author of Tales of a pilgrim.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Tales of a pilgrim, by the author of 'A summer ramble in the North Highlands'.
Author: Alexander Sutherland (author of Tales of a pilgrim.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, and Sutherland
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Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness and Sutherland ...
Author: Alfred Wintle Johnston
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Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
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Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Scotland the Worst
Author: Charles Maciejewski
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1912387638
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
An alternative guide to our bonnie wee country and its inhabitants, this book is a compendium of the less generous comments made by 17th, 18th and 19th century visitors. Hopefully much has changed – and mostly for the better!
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1912387638
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
An alternative guide to our bonnie wee country and its inhabitants, this book is a compendium of the less generous comments made by 17th, 18th and 19th century visitors. Hopefully much has changed – and mostly for the better!
The Highland Clearances Trail
Author: Rob Gibson
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913025853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Highland Clearances Trail answers the where, why, what and whens of the Highland Clearances. Taking you around the significant sites of the Highland Clearances this vivid guide gives a scholarly introduction to a tragic moment in Scotland's history. Perthshire, Ross-Shire, Arran, Sutherland and Caithness are among the many areas covered. With full background information supplied, along with maps and illustrations, The Highland Clearances Trail provides an alternative route around the Highlands that will leave the reader with a deeper understanding of this sublime landscape.
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913025853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Highland Clearances Trail answers the where, why, what and whens of the Highland Clearances. Taking you around the significant sites of the Highland Clearances this vivid guide gives a scholarly introduction to a tragic moment in Scotland's history. Perthshire, Ross-Shire, Arran, Sutherland and Caithness are among the many areas covered. With full background information supplied, along with maps and illustrations, The Highland Clearances Trail provides an alternative route around the Highlands that will leave the reader with a deeper understanding of this sublime landscape.
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances
Author: Richards Eric Richards
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472001
Category : Crofters
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year AwardIn April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable homicide for his treatment of the Highlanders of Strathnaver, the most northerly part of the Scottish highlands. In the process of evicting them from their ancient lands he had allegedly burnt houses, destroyed mills and wrecked pastures. There is perhaps no more hated nor reviled individual in Highland history. This outstanding new book, however, gives a balanced assessment of the man, a vivid account of a terrible episode in Highland history, and a riveting narration of a tormented life. Richard's book is an account of Sellar's life and times: that he was ruthless, avaricious, devious and cruel is beyond question. But his letters suggest a streak of idealism: did he really believe that the displaced highlanders would be better off, better fed, educated and housed in their new homes? Have the Highlands in the end become more productive and prosperous? In the course of his fast-moving and gripping account, Eric Richards looks carefully at these vexed questions.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472001
Category : Crofters
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year AwardIn April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable homicide for his treatment of the Highlanders of Strathnaver, the most northerly part of the Scottish highlands. In the process of evicting them from their ancient lands he had allegedly burnt houses, destroyed mills and wrecked pastures. There is perhaps no more hated nor reviled individual in Highland history. This outstanding new book, however, gives a balanced assessment of the man, a vivid account of a terrible episode in Highland history, and a riveting narration of a tormented life. Richard's book is an account of Sellar's life and times: that he was ruthless, avaricious, devious and cruel is beyond question. But his letters suggest a streak of idealism: did he really believe that the displaced highlanders would be better off, better fed, educated and housed in their new homes? Have the Highlands in the end become more productive and prosperous? In the course of his fast-moving and gripping account, Eric Richards looks carefully at these vexed questions.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Set Adrift Upon the World
Author: James Hunter
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857902628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a small group of men and one woman. Most of those involved wrote a great deal about their actions, intentions and feelings, and much of it has been preserved. There are no equivalent collections of material from those whose communities ceased to exist. Their feelings and fears are harder to access, but they are by no means irrecoverable. In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster which includes experiences which have not featured in any previous such account.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857902628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a small group of men and one woman. Most of those involved wrote a great deal about their actions, intentions and feelings, and much of it has been preserved. There are no equivalent collections of material from those whose communities ceased to exist. Their feelings and fears are harder to access, but they are by no means irrecoverable. In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster which includes experiences which have not featured in any previous such account.