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Author: Peter Guy Publisher: ISBN: 9781898852766 Category : Coasts Languages : en Pages : 96
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Unst is the third largest of the Shetland Islands. It is the most northern and faces on its north coast the Muckle Flugga group and the Out Stack. The coastline measures some 60 miles and offers the walker a magnificent variety of scenery as well as the opportunity to look at many historical sites.
Author: Peter Guy Publisher: ISBN: 9781898852766 Category : Coasts Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
Unst is the third largest of the Shetland Islands. It is the most northern and faces on its north coast the Muckle Flugga group and the Out Stack. The coastline measures some 60 miles and offers the walker a magnificent variety of scenery as well as the opportunity to look at many historical sites.
Author: Bella Bathurst Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062094742 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which "sent a gleam across the wave" and prevented countless ships from being lost at sea. While it is the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson that brought fame to the family name, this mesmerizing account shows how his extraordinary ancestors changed the shape of the Scotland coast against incredible odds and with remarkable technical ingenuity.
Author: Hamish Haswell-Smith Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 1782112650 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 450
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In An Island Odyssey Hamish Haswell-Smith casts off in his forty-one-foot sloop Jandara, armed with his sketch pad and a route map of a journey first taken by Martin Martin in 1703. Haswell-Smith sets sail on a voyage that will take him to fifty-two different islands around the Scottish Coast, from Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde to St. Kilda, Fair Isle and Bass Rock. Filled with natural history, local legend and landscapes and accompanied by the author's own distinctive sketches and watercolours An Island Odyssey is a delightful way to discover or rediscover the romance, beauty and inescapable magnetism of the Scottish Islands.
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Author: Philip T. Wheeler![The Island of Unst, Shetland ... [By] P.T. Wheeler and Members of the Geographical Field Group. [With Maps.]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/xeSlzQEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
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Author: Charles Sandison![Unst. My Island Home and Its Story. [With Plates.]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/cD0aMwEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
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