Author: Seton Paul GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Hebridean Memories
Author: Seton Paul GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Enchanted Isles: Hebridean Portraits & Memories
Author: Alasdair Alpin MacGregorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Hebridean Island
Author: Angus DuncanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"The Island of Scarp lies off the west coast of North Harris in the Outer Hebrides and was populated for more than 400 years until 1971, when the last of the native population left. This account of Scarp describes an island community and a way of life now all but forgotten, including the harvests of the land and the sea; children's games and pastimes; long traditional folktales told around the peat-fire; social customs and occasions; and some of the notable characters of the day. It fills a long-felt gap, for the story of Scarp - unlike its westerly neighbour St. Kilda - has not been told in this way before."--BOOK JACKET.
The Bookman
Author: From the Alleghenies to the Hebrides
Author: Margaret Fay ShawPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 0857902857
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The story of a woman’s life, spanning the twentieth century and two continents: “A miniature masterpiece . . . often funny, sometimes moving, never sentimental.” —Times Literary Supplement Margaret Fay Shaw’s life spanned a century of change. Orphaned at eleven, she left home and school in Pennsylvania aged sixteen, crossing to Scotland to spend a year at school near Glasgow. It was there that her love for Scotland was born. After studying music in New York and Paris, she returned to live for six years with two sisters in South Uist. Life on the island had changed little from previous centuries, and material comforts were few. But the island was rich in music and tradition, and Margaret Fay Shaw’s collection of Gaelic lore and song are among the most important made this century, while her photography evocatively captures the aura of a vanished world. Her autobiography is the remarkable testament of a remarkable woman, as well as a powerful plea in defense of a Gaelic culture and world under threat. It is written with a sharpness of observation, directness of humor, and zest for life—and it is also a marvelous record of the twentieth century. “[A] gem of an autobiography.” —The Wall Street Journal “Brilliantly capture[s] the twilight world of the Hebrides in the twentieth century.” —The Guardian
M.A.B.
Author: Songs of the Hebrides and other Celtic songs from the highlands of Scotland
Author: The Naturalist
Author: The Soap Man
Author: Roger HutchinsonPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 0857900749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The true story of a tycoon’s dashed dream: “A wonderful little book about what happens when righteous ambition meets stubborn culture.” —Scotland on Sunday Shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent industrialist Lord Leverhulme, whose name lives on today within the multinational company Unilever, bought—lock, stock and barrel—the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionize the lives and environments of its thirty thousand people, and those of neighboring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years, a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owners. They fought back, and this is the story of that fight. The confrontation resulted in riot and land seizure and imprisonment for the islanders and the ultimate defeat for one of the most powerful men of his day. The Soap Man paints a beguiling portrait of the driven figure of Lord Leverhulme, but also looks for the first time at the infantry of his opposition: the men and women of Lewis and Harris who for long hard years fought the law, their landowner, local business opinion, and the media, to preserve the settled crofting population of their islands. “Magnificent.” —West Highland Free Press
Songs of the Hebrides
Author: Marjory Kennedy-FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, Scottish Gaelic
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description