Author: Val Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
An examination of the unique archaeological make-up of the Shetland Islands, from its Norse roots to its annexation by Scotland in 1472. This title focuses on an archaeology rich with an agricultural heritage.
The Shaping of Shetland
Author: Val Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
An examination of the unique archaeological make-up of the Shetland Islands, from its Norse roots to its annexation by Scotland in 1472. This title focuses on an archaeology rich with an agricultural heritage.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
An examination of the unique archaeological make-up of the Shetland Islands, from its Norse roots to its annexation by Scotland in 1472. This title focuses on an archaeology rich with an agricultural heritage.
A Shetland Pattern Book
Author: Mary Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900662188
Category : Knitting
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900662188
Category : Knitting
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Wild Fire: The Shetland Series 8
Author: Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1760781630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The eighth, and final book, in Ann Cleeves’ bestselling Shetland series – a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez. Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote. Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, a new English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny’s body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire. With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. For him it will mean returning to the islands of his on-off lover and boss Willow Reeves, who will run the case. Perez is already facing the most disturbing investigation of his career, when Willow drops a bombshell that will change his life forever. Is he ready for what is to come?
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1760781630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The eighth, and final book, in Ann Cleeves’ bestselling Shetland series – a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez. Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote. Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, a new English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny’s body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire. With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. For him it will mean returning to the islands of his on-off lover and boss Willow Reeves, who will run the case. Perez is already facing the most disturbing investigation of his career, when Willow drops a bombshell that will change his life forever. Is he ready for what is to come?
Daughter of the Sea
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1849397996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet, and now the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted parents and her strange attraction to the seal people, which will she choose - the sea or the land? From the traditional folk-tale of the selkie, award-winning author Berlie Doherty has created her own lyrical and timeless story of a young girl's search for her true identity.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1849397996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet, and now the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted parents and her strange attraction to the seal people, which will she choose - the sea or the land? From the traditional folk-tale of the selkie, award-winning author Berlie Doherty has created her own lyrical and timeless story of a young girl's search for her true identity.
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
The Magic of Shetland Lace Knitting
Author: Elizabeth Lovick
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250039088
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
A guide to making Shetland lace projects, including traditional Shetland motifs, patterns, and insertions such as cat's paw, candlelight, horse shoe and many more.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250039088
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
A guide to making Shetland lace projects, including traditional Shetland motifs, patterns, and insertions such as cat's paw, candlelight, horse shoe and many more.
The Birsay Bay Project
Author: Christopher D. Morris
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789256089
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1229
Book Description
The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014. This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014. Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself. The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-center and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods. As well as being the author’s third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curle’s and Prof John Hunter’s earlier monographs.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789256089
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1229
Book Description
The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014. This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014. Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself. The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-center and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods. As well as being the author’s third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curle’s and Prof John Hunter’s earlier monographs.
Land, Sea and Home
Author: John Hines
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040288642
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The twenty-eight papers in this volume explore the practical !ife, domestic settings, landscapes and seascapes of the Viking world. Their geographical horizons stretch from Iceland to Russia, with particular emphasis on new discoveries in the Scandinavian homelands and in Britain and Ireland. With a rich combination of disciplinary perspectives, new interpretations are presented of evidence for buildings and technology, navigation, trade and military organization, the ideology of place, and cultural interactions and comparisons between Viking and native groups. Together, these reveal the multivalent importance of settlement archaeology and history for an understanding of the pivotal phase within the Middle Ages that was the Viking Period.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040288642
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The twenty-eight papers in this volume explore the practical !ife, domestic settings, landscapes and seascapes of the Viking world. Their geographical horizons stretch from Iceland to Russia, with particular emphasis on new discoveries in the Scandinavian homelands and in Britain and Ireland. With a rich combination of disciplinary perspectives, new interpretations are presented of evidence for buildings and technology, navigation, trade and military organization, the ideology of place, and cultural interactions and comparisons between Viking and native groups. Together, these reveal the multivalent importance of settlement archaeology and history for an understanding of the pivotal phase within the Middle Ages that was the Viking Period.
Discover Shetland's Birds
Author: Paul Harvey (Writer on Shetland birds)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957203181
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957203181
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The Shape of the Past
Author: Alexander Fenton
Publisher: John Donald
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: John Donald
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description