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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The Caledonian
Author: The Caledonian Canal
Author: A.D. CameronPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909533
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Telford's plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy with each other and the sea, was a huge undertaking which brought civil engineering to the Highlands on a heroic scale. Deep in the Highlands, far from the canal network of England, engineers forged their way through the Great Glen to construct the biggest canal of its day: twenty-two miles of artificial cutting and no fewer than twenty-eight locks. A.D. (Sandy) Cameron's book has long been recognised as the authoritative work on the canal as well as a reliable and useful guide to the surrounding area. There are intriguing old plans, not discovered until 1992, and a survey of the dramatic rise in pleasure-craft traffic during the last two decades. But the highlight of the recent past was undoubtedly the Tall Ships passing through the canal in stately procession in 1991. Impossible, then, not to feel the fascination of this beautiful waterway: a working piece of industrial history and a remarkable engineering achievement. This book is a fitting celebration of this remarkable feat of engineering.
The Caledonian Parnassus, a Museum of Original Scottish Songs. [With a Portrait.]
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Author: Willison GlassMayflies
Author: Andrew O'HaganPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771068131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news--news that forces the life-long friends to confront their own mortality head-on. What follows is an incredibly moving examination of the responsibilities and obligations we have to those we love. Mayflies is at once a finely-tuned drama about the delicacy and impermanence of human connection and an urgent inquiry into some of the most important questions of all: Who are we? What do we owe to our friends? And what does it mean to love another person amidst tragedy?
The Caledonian Steam Packet Company
Author: Alistair DeaytonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445639319
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The follow-up to Alistair Deayton’s David MacBrayne history tells the story of the other constituent company of Cal-Mac. Founded by the Caledonian Railway, the CSP vessels once flourished on the Clyde, sailing to points in Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Argyll.
The Works of the Caledonian Bards
Author: John ClarkPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Caledonian Itinerary; Or, a Tour on the Banks of the Dee: a Poem, with Historical Notes from the Best Authorities, Etc. MS Notes
Author: Alexander LAING (Author of the Caledonian Itinerary, etc.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
THE CALEDONIAN.--DICKEY, CLAIMANT v. , 17 U.S. 100 (1819)
Author: The Caledonian Comet Elucidated. [A Reply in Verse by Martha Ann Sellon to the Satire on Scott by John Taylor.]
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Author: Martha Ann SELLONThe Legate and the Caledonian Queen: Book 1 from a Series of 19
Author: Bryan WallacePublisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398426768
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
The hero is Adrianus and follows his posting to the very edge of the Roman Empire to Caer Amon (Cramond), an outpost to the Antonine Wall on the Forth Estuary. A man of uncertain parentage who with his family must not only face the Caledonian tribes at his fort gate but also the treachery within from those wishing to discredit the new Emperor. For every hero there should also be a heroine as history has neglected the heroines. Mine is the young and spirited Selinda, Queen of the Venicones, Caledonia’s own Boudicca. How can she maintain her rule and the future of her tribe as she is caught between the Romans to the south and the Caledonii to the north whilst facing rivals amongst her own tribe? They agree to meet on an island in the Forth. Will she poison him or will they love and work together for the good of Rome and her tribe? Read on! The first Roman novel on the Antonine Wall it features not just the Roman Army but also the women and their families living on the very edge of the Roman Empire almost 2,000 years ago. It is the first of 19 featuring other forts and the soldiers and their families as well as the tribes’ people on or around the Wall.