Download or read book Loch Awe written by and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loch Awe Village History written by Lella D. Shackles and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cruachan written by Marian Pallister and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Cruachan!' was the battle cry of the Campbells. In the early 1960s, the invasion of the 3,000 men who hollowed out Argyll's noblest and highest mountain as part of a massive hydroelectric project could have annihilated the local community. Instead, the people of Loch Awe, Dalmally and Taynuilt welcomed the invaders, embraced the project and emerged the winners. Fifty years on, an integrated community still lives under the Hollow Mountain, and the cry 'Cruachan!' signifies a Scottish success story. In this book, based on interviews, media reports, court reports and film archive material, Marian Pallister tells the story of the project - featuring the extraordinary experience of those who worked on the mountain as well as the effects on the local community of one of the biggest civil engineering projects ever to have been undertaken in Scotland. She also considers the long-term effects of the project, looking at how the community was changed by the experience.
Download or read book It s a Far Cry to Loch Awe written by Charlie Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ford A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland written by John B. Stephenson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highlands of Scotland, like the southern Appalachians of the United States, have long been a problem area in Great Britain, troubled with a fading economy and loss of population. Most books about the region, however, are popular volumes that romanticize a bygone way of life. This study of Ford, a village of some 160 people in western Argyllshire, thus fills a gap in the literature and provides a look at the present realities of Scottish life. Although the Highlands are by no means a homogeneous region, Ford in its size and makeup is perhaps a representative rural settlement. John Stephenson, who conducted extensive interviews in the village during 1981, focuses his study on the theme of survival, on whether this particular village shows signs of enduring as a community of people bound together by common interests and situations. Though necessarily tentative, his conclusions are optimistic. Ford has shown a recent increase in population, consisting almost entirely of newcomers, and though its residents have now a more varied background, they seem to have a sense of place, of belonging to the village. This book will provide new insights not only for those interested in life in the Highlands but also for all those interested in small communities in other parts of the world.
Download or read book Castles of Scotland written by Martin Coventry and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must for all those who want to visit Scotland's many castles. The book covers all of the coutry's famous strongholds, as well as many lesser-known places, with location, access, visitor facilities, and contact details. There is a map, many photos, a glossary of architectural terms, and a family-name index, allowing the reader to identify any castle associated with their family.
Download or read book The Treasury of Geography Physical Historical Descriptive and Political Containing a Succinct Account of Every Country in the World written by William Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Treasury of Geography written by William Hughes and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1870 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Geography of Scotland Since 1707 written by David Turnock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to take a comprehensive view of the historical geography of Scotland since the Union. The period is divided into sections separated by the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, and each section offers a general view followed by detailed studies giving a balanced coverage of regional and urban-rural criteria, and the economic infrastructure. The book contains a number of original researches and Dr Turnock attempts to set the Scottish experience in a framework of general ideas on modernisation.
Download or read book The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland Or Dictionary of Scottish Topography Compiled from the Most Recent Authorities and Forming a Complete Body of Scottish Geography Physical Statistical and Historical written by John Marius Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland Comprising the Several Countries Islands Cities Burgh and Market Towns Parishes and Principal Villages with Historical and Statistical Descriptions Embellished with a Large Map of Scotland and Engravings of the Seals and Arms of the Different Burghs and Universities written by Samuel Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland written by Samuel Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Well at the World s End written by A. J. Mackinnon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When A. J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the well at the world’s end, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to fly—he claims it would feel as though he were cheating—he sets out with a backpack, some fireworks, and a map of the world and trusts that chance will take care of the rest. Traveling by land and sea, train, truck, horse, and yacht, Mackinnon travels across the world, getting caught up in a series of hilarious, sometimes surreal, adventures. He survives a near-fatal bus crash in Australia, accidentally marries a Laotian princess, is attacked by a Komodo dragon, and does time in a sketchy Chinese jail, among many other mishaps and misadventures along the way. Each new continent and each new mode of transport brings the possibility of a near-miss or happy accident, all on the quest for eternal youth. This is the astonishing true story of a remarkable voyage.
Download or read book Picture of Scotland written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
