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Category : Unst (Shetland)
Languages : en
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The Island of Unst, Shetland
Author: The Island of Unst, Shetland
Author: Philip T. WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Island of Unst
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Island of Unst, Shetland ... [By] P.T. Wheeler and Members of the Geographical Field Group. [With Maps.].
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Author: Philip Theodore WHEELERThe Island of Unst
Author: Peter GuyPublisher:
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.
The Lighthouse Stevensons
Author: Bella BathurstPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062094742
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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.
An Island Odyssey
Author: Hamish Haswell-SmithPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782112650
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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.
SHETLAND.
Author: MARIE. WALLINPublisher:
ISBN: 9780992797881
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Unst. My Island Home and Its Story. [With Plates.].
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Author: Charles SANDISONUnst
Author: Charles SandisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780900662119
Category : Unst (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Shetland
Author: Ann CleevesPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509809805
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In this gloriously illustrated companion to her crime novels featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetland. Discover its past, meet its people, celebrate its festivals and see how the flora and fauna of the islands change with the seasons. An archipelago of more than a hundred islands, Shetland is the one of the most remote places in the United Kingdom. Its fifteen hundred miles of shore mean that wherever one stands, there is a view of the sea. It has sheltered voes and beaches and dramatically exposed cliffs, lush meadows full of wild flowers in the summer and bleak hilltops where only the hardiest of plants will grow. It is a place where traditions are valued and celebrated, but new technologies and ways of working are also embraced. Whether it is the drama of the Viking fire festival of Up Helly Aa in winter, or the piercing blue and hot pink of spring flowers on the clifftops, the long, white nights of midsummer or the fierce gales and high tides of autumn, Shetland is vividly captured in all its bleak and special beauty. A book to treasure, full of photos and insightful notes about the stunning location of the Shetland series, now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.