Download or read book Into the Peatlands written by Robin Crawford and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of these Scottish wetlands: “Fascinating…makes you yearn for a sip of golden whisky whose barley malt has been smoked over a rich, peaty fire.” —Daily Mail The peatlands of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides are half land, half water. Their surface is a glorious tweed woven from tiny, living sphagnums rich in wildlife, but underneath are layer upon layer of dead mosses transforming into the peat. One can, with care, walk out onto them, but stop and you begin to sink into them. For time immemorial the peatlands have been places—for humans at least—of seasonal habitation but not of constant residence. In this book, Robin A. Crawford explores the peatlands over the course of the year, explaining how they have come to be and examining how peat has been used from the Bronze Age onwards. In describing the seasonal processes of cutting, drying, stacking, storing, and burning, he reveals one of the key rhythms of island life, but his study goes well beyond this to include many other aspects, including the wildlife and folklore associated with these lonely, watery places. Widening his gaze to other peatlands in the country, he also reflects on the historical and cultural importance that peat has played, and continues to play—it is still used for fuel in many rural areas and plays an essential role in whisky-making—in the story of Scotland.
Download or read book A Scot s Dialect Dictionary written by William Grant and published by Lodnon : W. & R. Chambers. This book was released on 1911 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland written by George Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wee Folk Tales written by Donald Smith and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories are about the wee folk of Scotland, told afresh for everyone including, today's wee people. Collected here are stories from all over Scotland. Many were first published in the nineteenth and twentieth century, but all have been influenced by being told and retold, shaped and reshaped as they pass from storyteller to storyteller. Whether you're introducing a wee bairn to these stories for the first time or you're not-so-wee and reading them to yourself, you'll find plenty to love in these charming Scots folk tales.
Download or read book A Grass Bank Beyond written by Fionna Carothers and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Four Ducks on a Pond, Nicholas the Cat, assisted by novelist Annabel Carothers, observed his family of humans and animals during one year on the Ross of Mull in the early 1950s. More than fifty years later, Annabel's daughter Fionna discovered the manuscript in a desk drawer and, while preparing it for publication, was inspired to expand on the theme. A Grass Bank Beyond covers an extended period before mains services and frequent ferries brought about change to the Ross. Fionna remembers the freedom she enjoyed roaming the island on foot, bicycle, pony, or boat. On family outings she absorbed stories and legends about the island, attended agricultural shows and local concerts, and saw the Queen arrive for an official visit to Mull at the height of a great storm. With warmth and gentle humour she describes the solutions which overcame problems living in this beautiful but remote place.
Download or read book A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scottish Dictionary and Supplement written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Island on the Edge written by Anne Cholawo and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1989, holidaying in Skye, she noticed an advert for a property on the Isle of Soay - 'Access by courtesy of fishing boat'. She had never heard of Soay before, let alone visited it, but something inexplicable drew her there. Within ten minutes of stepping off the said fishing boat, she had fallen under the spell of the island, and after a few months she moved there to live. She is still there. When she arrived on the remote west coast island there were only 17 inhabitants, among them the legendary Hebridean sharker Tex Geddes and his family. Today, including Anne and her husband Robert, there are only three. This book describes her extraordinary transition from a hectic urban lifestyle to one of rural isolation and self-sufficiency, without mains electricity, medical services, shops or any of the other modern amenities we take for granted. Anne describes the history of Soay and its unique wildlife, and as well as telling her own personal story introduces along the way some of the off-beat and colourful characters associated with the island, notably Tex's one-time associate, the celebrated writer and naturalist, Gavin Maxwell.
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Download or read book John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman and the Little Wars of Lorn written by Neil Munro and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro is a humble yet affectionate novel about a young man back from college on the verge of returning to his small, country hometown. This intimate tale is a tour of Scotland and a love letter to small hometowns.
Download or read book Myth and materiality in a woman s world written by Lynn Abrams and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts without men. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. And they constructed in their minds an identity of themselves as 'liberated' long before organised feminism was invented. And yet, Shetland is a place which was made by the most masculine of societies - those of the Picts, Scots and above all the Vikings - and its contemporary identity still draws on the heroic exploits and sagas of medieval Norsemen. This book examines how against this tradition Shetland became a female place, and offers answers as to how, in this most isolated island community, the inhabitants transgressed and reversed their traditional gender roles. Reconstructing this 'woman's world' from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of social and cultural history, social anthropology, gender and women's studies.
Download or read book Supplement to The Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dark Stuff written by Donald S. Murray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths. Donald S. Murray spent much of his childhood either playing or working on the moor, chasing sheep across empty acres and cutting and gathering peat for fuel. The Dark Stuff is an examination of how this landscape affected him and others. Donald explores his early life on the Isle of Lewis together with the experiences of those who lived near moors much further afield, from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and even Australia. Examining this environment in all its roles and guises, Donald reflects on the ways that for centuries humans have represented the moor in literature, art and folktale, and he reveals how in some countries, these habitats remain an essential aspect of their industrial heritage and working life today. On his journey, Donald confronts the unexpected – how Europe's peatlands are part of the dark heart of that continent, playing a crucial role in the history of crime and punishment in several countries. He also examines our current perception of moorland, asking how – for the sake, perhaps, of our planet's survival – we can learn to love a landscape we have all too often in our history denigrated, feared and despised.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Scottish Language written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the Words are Explained in Their Different Senses Authorized by the Names of the Writers by Whom They are Used of the Titles of the Works in which They Occur and Derived from Their Originals written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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