Download or read book The Scottish Sketches of R B Cunninghame Graham written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scottish Sketches of R B Cunninghame Graham written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Scottish Sketches of R B Cunninghame Graham written by and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents and sets in context all of Cunninghame Graham's Scottish works, transcribed from their original sources R. B. Cunninghame Graham was a hugely influential figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish politics and literature. For the first time, his entire Scottish oeuvre has been compiled chronologically, from their original sources, into one volume, and set in their historical, cultural and social contexts. This volume highlights Graham's writings on landscape, climate, history, local traditions, mythology, Scots dialect and social diversity - but also pays rare attention to his writings about Scots abroad. Almost every location of Graham's sketches has been visited and investigated, and the editors - one of whom has intimate connections to his family history - have sought out individuals with local knowledge and insights, lending depth and substance to his descriptions, and to their commentaries. The book also explores the works themselves, and traces Graham's development as a much-admired literary artist and social documentarist whose atmospheric evocations of Scottish landscape and character are unique within Scottish literature. Lachlan Munro is an independent scholar and freelance historian. W. R. B. (Robin) Cunninghame is the great-great-nephew of R. B. Cunninghame Graham and holds the Barony of Gartmore as head of the Cunninghame Graham family. He is a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries (Scotland).
Download or read book The North American Sketches of R B Cunninghame Graham written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936), whose fascinating life and neglected literature are finally attracting the attention of a wide audience throughout the world, has his North American travel writings collected in this book.
Download or read book The North American Sketches of R B Cunninghame Graham written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cunninghame Graham and Scotland written by John Walker and published by Dollar [Clackmannan] : D.S. Mack. This book was released on 1980 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Progress and Other Sketches By R B Cunninghame Graham written by R. B. Cunninghame Graham and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 - 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP); the first ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party; a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934.Youth:Cunninghame Graham was the eldest son of Major William Bontine of the Renfrew Militia and formerly a Cornet in the Scots Greys with whom he served in Ireland. His mother was Hon. Anne Elizabeth Elphinstone-Fleeming, daughter of Admiral Charles Elphinstone-Fleeming of Cumbernauld and a Spanish noblewoman Doña Catalina Paulina Alessandro de Jiménez, (who, reputedly, along with her second husband Admiral James Katon), heavily influenced Cunninghame Graham's upbringing. Thus the first language Cunninghame Graham learned was his mother's maternal tongue, Spanish. He spent most of his childhood on the family estate of Finlaystone in Renfrewshire and Ardoch in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, with his younger brothers Charles and Malise.After being educated at Harrow public school in England, Robert finished his education in Brussels, Belgium before moving to Argentina to make his fortune cattle ranching. He became known as a great adventurer and gaucho there, and was affectionately known as Don Roberto. He also travelled in Morocco disguised as a Turkish sheikh, prospected for gold in Spain, befriended Buffalo Bill in Texas, and taught fencing in Mexico City, having travelled there by wagon train from San Antonio de Bexar with his young bride sic "Gabrielle Chideock de la Balmondiere" a supposed half-French, half-Chilean poet.....
Download or read book Thirteen Stories written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brazilian Mystic written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joseph Conrad s Letters to R B Cunninghame Graham written by Joseph Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating sequence of letters between Conrad and his provocative correspondent and friend R. B. Cunninghame Graham, published in 1969.
Download or read book Photographed on the Brain written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cunninghame Graham collection"--Cover.
Download or read book The Scottish World written by Billy Kay and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Thaim wi a guid Scots tongue in their heid are fit tae gang ower the warld' In The Scottish World, renowned broadcaster Billy Kay takes us on a global journey of discovery, highlighting the extraordinary influence the Scots have had on communities and cultures on almost every continent. While others have questioned the self-confidence of the Scots, Kay has travelled the world from Bangkok to Brazil, Warsaw to Waikiki and found ringing endorsements for the integrity and intellect, the poetry and passion of the Scottish people in every country he has visited. He expands people's view of Scotland by relating remarkable stories of the wealthy Scottish merchant community in Gdansk; of national geniuses of Scots descent, such as Lermontov in Russia and Grieg in Norway; of an American Civil War blamed on Sir Walter Scott and initiated in the St Andrew's Society of Charleston; of inspirational missionaries in Calabar and Budapest; of Scotch professors establishing football in soccer strongholds such as Barcelona and São Paulo; of pioneers like Sandeman and Cockburn, and the Scottish roots of many of the great wines of Europe; and of their amazing involvement in liberation movements in Malawi, Chile, Peru, Greece, Corsica and India. The Scottish World is a celebration of the enormous contribution the Scots have made to the modern world.
Download or read book Don Roberto written by Aimé Felix Tschiffely and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reincarnation written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 3477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Download or read book Bannockburns written by Robert Crawford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism and how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence from 1314 to today. Publication coincides with the 700-year anniversary of the Battle o
Download or read book Notes on the District of Menteith for Tourists and Others written by R. B. Cunninghame Graham and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 - 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP); the first ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party; a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934.Youth:Cunninghame Graham was the eldest son of Major William Bontine of the Renfrew Militia and formerly a Cornet in the Scots Greys with whom he served in Ireland. His mother was Hon. Anne Elizabeth Elphinstone-Fleeming, daughter of Admiral Charles Elphinstone-Fleeming of Cumbernauld and a Spanish noblewoman Do�a Catalina Paulina Alessandro de Jim�nez, (who, reputedly, along with her second husband Admiral James Katon), heavily influenced Cunninghame Graham''s upbringing. Thus the first language Cunninghame Graham learned was his mother''s maternal tongue, Spanish. He spent most of his childhood on the family estate of Finlaystone in Renfrewshire and Ardoch in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, with his younger brothers Charles and Malise.After being educated at Harrow public school in England, Robert finished his education in Brussels, Belgium before moving to Argentina to make his fortune cattle ranching. He became known as a great adventurer and gaucho there, and was affectionately known as Don Roberto. He also travelled in Morocco disguised as a Turkish sheikh, prospected for gold in Spain, befriended Buffalo Bill in Texas, and taught fencing in Mexico City, having travelled there by wagon train from San Antonio de Bexar with his young bride sic "Gabrielle Chideock de la Balmondiere" a supposed half-French, half-Chilean poet.....AuthorBetween 1888 and 1992, Graham was a prolific contributor to small-circulation socialist journals, but his literary career took off when he was recruited by Frank Harris to write for The Saturday Review in 1895, and he continued writing for ''The Saturday'' until 1926, as well as other journals. His main form was the ''sketch'', or sketch-tale'', mostly descriptive, atmospheric works on South America and Scotland, which gave his work a unique aesthetic, which carried a subtext of anti-colonialism, nostalgia, and loss. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) decribed his Scottish sketches as "the rain-in-the-air-and-on-the-roof mournfulness of Scotch music in his time-past style [. . .] snap-shots - the best verbal snapshots ever taken I believe." His many works were collected into anthologies. Subject matter included history, biography, poetry, essays, politics, travel and seventeen collections of short stories or literary sketches. Titles include Father Archangel of Scotland (1896 in conjunction with his wife Gabriella), Thirteen Stories (1900), Success (1902), Scottish Stories (1914) Brought Forward (1916), Hope (1917) and Mirages (1936). Biographies included: Hernando de Soto (1903), Doughty Deeds (1925), a biography of his great-great-grandfather, Robert Graham of Gartmore and Portrait of a Dictator (1933). His great-niece and biographer, Jean, Lady Polwarth,[7] published a collection of his short stories (or sketches) entitled Beattock for Moffatt and the Best of Cunninghame Graham (1979) and Alexander Maitland added his selection under the title Tales of Horsemen (1981). Professor John Walker published collections of Cunninghame Graham''s South American Sketches (1978), Scottish Sketches (1982) and North American Sketches (1986) and Kennedy & Boyd are republishing the stories and sketches in five volumes. In 1988 The Century Travellers reprinted his Mogreb-el-Acksa (1898) and A Vanished Arcadia (1901). The former was the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw''s play Captain Brassbound''s Conversion. The latter helped inspire the award-winning film The Mission. More recently The Long Riders Guild Press have reprinted his equestrian travel works in their Cunninghame Graham Collection....
