Download or read book William Daniell s Isle of Skye and Raasay written by John Garvey and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Daniell's Isle of Skye and Raasay brings together 17 aquatint prints and 10 pencil sketches from the Hebridean islands of Eigg, Rum, Skye and Raasay, and photographs showing these views as they are today.
Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Nigel Leask and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
Download or read book Whiskies Galore written by Ian Buxton and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique, and remote location captures the imagination; their highly distinctive flavours are often imitated but seldom bettered. There have been few books on island whisky and none written in recent years. But Whiskies Galore is not your average whisky book. It is not simply a catalogue of distilleries, but a story of discovery and adventure. Join Ian Buxton on a personal journey across Scotland's islands, where he learns to fish with high explosives, ends up hurling his dinner into the sea, and comes face to face with a basking shark. Combining an expert's knowledge of whisky with a travel writer's fondness for anecdote, and with a keen description of place, he provides a special treat for all who love the islands' magical drams.
Download or read book Curious Travellers written by Mary-Ann Constantine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.
Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson written by Greg Clingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history.
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raasay written by Richard Sharpe and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art Index written by Alice Maria Dougan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-07 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage Round Great Britain Undertaken in the Summer of 1813 with a Series of Views Engraved by William Daniell written by Richard Ayton and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travellers in Britain written by Richard Trench and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain seen through the eyes of travellers from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution.
Download or read book Second Series of Eton School Lists written by Henry Edward Chetwynd-Stapylton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Coast Journey written by Brigid Benson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Brigid writes with warmth and appreciation of communities that she knows and loves, and she inspires us to explore them' – Rick Stein 'Whenever I am talking to customers about the NC500, I always recommend your book for the wonderful photographs and all the extra information it contains' – David Duguid, Picaresque Books This is the essential guide to the north of Scotland, on a route which begins in Inverness, weaves westwards to Applecross and then northwards towards Torridon. From Ullapool it leads to the most northerly points in Britain, passing by Caithness and John o' Groats before heading south again through Dingwall and to Inverness.In addition to stunning mountains, moors, lochs and beaches, the route also features exquisite towns and villages, castles, distilleries, breweries, natural wonders and wildlife. Brigid Benson, who knows the road intimately, divides the route into manageable chunks, suggesting where to discover history, observe wildlife, meet great local characters, shop at quirky stores, taste outstanding food, drink in friendly bars and cafes, stand in awe of amazing sights, and recommending places to picnic, swim, surf, walk and stargaze. And great places to camp and stay. She also draws attention to potential pitfalls, offering useful advice on single-track roads, fuel, car problems, planning realistic itineraries, and much more. Stunning, full-colour landscape photography features throughout, and a full list of photographs can be found on page 229 for your reference.
Download or read book Britain Revisited written by Anthony Burton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Cornish coast where Wilkie Collins walked, to the Western Islands of Scotland visited by Samuel Johnson, author Anthony Burton has followed in the footstps of eight earlier travelers in Britain, casting a fresh eye on the places they once so vividly described. In so doing, he has created a travel book of special charm and interest which presents something more than just a view of Britain today: it is a book where past and present unite. Indeed, Burton finds his own perceptions of familiar scenes altered in the light of what they saw. Lavishly illustrated with the author's photographs, contemporary illustrations, and maps of the travelers' routes, Britain Revisited also includes many delightful excerpts from the writings of William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, John Taylor, and the other travelers.
Download or read book A Voyage Round Great Britain Land s End to the Clyde written by David Addey and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated volume records the next stages of Addey's journey from Land's End to Conway and Liverpool to the Clyde - and again contrasts his work with Daniell's engravings and descriptions.
Download or read book The Misty Isle of Skye written by John Arnott MacCulloch and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
