A Scots Dictionary Of Nature

Author : Amanda Thomson
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 191508945X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Scots Dictionary of Nature written by Amanda Thomson and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland is a nation of dramatic weather and breathtaking landscapes – of nature resplendent. And, over the centuries, the people who have lived, explored and thrived in this country have developed a rich language to describe their surroundings: a uniquely Scottish lexicon shaped by the very environment itself. A Scots Dictionary of Nature brings together – for the first time – the deeply expressive vocabulary customarily used to describe land, wood, weather, birds, water and walking in Scotland. Artist Amanda Thomson collates and celebrates these traditional Scots words, which reveal ways of seeing and being in the world that are in danger of disappearing forever. What emerges is a vivid evocation of the nature and people of Scotland, past and present; of lives lived between the mountains and the sky.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 819 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concise Scots Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241967864
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks written by Robert Macfarlane and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it. Praise for Robert Macfarlane: 'He has a poet's eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy' John Banville, Observer "I'll read anything Macfarlane writes" David Mitchell, Independent 'Every movement needs stars. In [Macfarlane] we surely have one, burning brighter with each book.' Telegraph '[Macfarlane] is a godfather of a cultural moment' Sunday Times

Author : Iseabail Macleod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pocket Scots Dictionary written by Iseabail Macleod and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan Swann
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474472966
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Sociolinguistics written by Joan Swann and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a broad coverage of sociolinguistics, including macro- and micro-sociolinguistics and a range of approaches within variationist, interactional, critical and applied traditions. In explaining sociolinguistic terminology, the dictionary is able to map out the traditions and approaches that comprise sociolinguistics and will thus help readers find their way around this fascinating but complex subject.

Author : Kathleen Jamie
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1786899809
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antlers of Water written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Luminous' The Times 'Beautiful’ Caught by the River Bringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography. Edited and introduced by Kathleen Jamie, and with contributions from Amy Liptrot, Jim Crumley, Chitra Ramaswamy, Malachy Tallack, Amanda Thomson and many more, Antlers of Water urges us to renegotiate our relationship with the more-than-human world, in writing which is by turns celebratory, radical and political.

Author : Susan Rennie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019963940X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots written by Susan Rennie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of the making of John Jamieson's pioneering Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language first published between 1808 and 1825. Susan Rennie describes Jamieson's work and methods interweaving her account with biography and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded picture of the man, his work, and his times.

Author : T. G. K. Bryce
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474437850
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Education written by T. G. K. Bryce and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogates the rise of national philosophies and their impact on cosmopolitanism and nationalism.

Author : Mary J. MacLeod
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1611459176
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call the Nurse written by Mary J. MacLeod and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends. In anecdotes that are by turns funny, sad, moving, and tragic, she recalls them all, the crofters and their laird, the boatmen and tradesmen, young lovers and forbidding churchmen. Against the old-fashioned island culture and the grandeur of mountain and sea unfold indelible stories: a young woman carried through snow for airlift to the hospital; a rescue by boat; the marriage of a gentle giant and the island beauty; a ghostly encounter; the shocking discovery of a woman in chains; the flames of a heather fire at night; an unexploded bomb from World War II; and the joyful, tipsy celebration of a ceilidh. Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland.

Author : Ian Crofton
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 9781780277554
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable written by Ian Crofton and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative, entertaining and eminently browsable reference book, arranged in easily accessible A-Z format, is an absorbing and imaginative feast of Scottish lore, language, history and culture, from the mythical origins of the Scots in Scythia to the contemporary Scotland of the Holyrood parliament and Trainspotting.