North Uist In History And Legend

Author : Bill Lawson
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788852745
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Uist in History and Legend written by Bill Lawson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all the Hebrides, North Uist has a fascinating history and a landscape scattered with historic sites, from Neolithic burial chambers, Iron Age forts and medieval churches to battle-sites and townships forged in the days of kelp trade and deserted during the subsequent traumas of clearance and emigration. In this informative book, Bill Lawson writes about the island and its people, drawing on recorded history and also the rich tradition of story and song in which the informal history of the people was passed down. He also incorporates many personal reminiscences of his travels through the island.

Author : James Kapaló
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155225486
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Words written by James Kapaló and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n medieval and early modern Europe, the use of charms was a living practice in all strata of society. The essays in this latest CEU Press publication explore the rich textual tradition of archives, monasteries, and literary sources. The author also discusses texts amassed in folklore archives and ones that are still accessible through field work in many rural areas of Europe.

Author : Mike Townsend
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1783629444
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking on Uist and Barra written by Mike Townsend and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide offers 40 walking routes on the Uists and Barra - a unique 100km cluster of islands in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The walks are varied and graded, from short, flat beach walks beside crystal clear waters to long excursions across wild mountainous terrain, the routes visit all the major islands from Berneray to Vatersay but also those smaller and offshore such as Eriskay and Mingulay. Routes are described in four sections, by area, and illustrated with vivid colour photographs and OS 1:50,000 mapping. Walking across these landscapes, especially the hill country, gives a sense of remoteness and peaceful solitude that cannot be found in the mainland's National Parks or on the Munros busy with peak baggers. Despite a relatively narrow area, Uist and Barra's diverse islands offer a contrasting walking terrain and many ancient historic sites such as chambered cairns and standing stones as well as lots of local wildlife. Upland areas are home to red deer and golden and white-tailed eagles, while along the coast grey seals are common and thousands of birds set up their breeding grounds in the machair. Daily flights between Glasgow and Benbecula as well as the ferry network mean that all of the islands are readily accessible.

Author : Mike Sullivan
Publisher : Pesda Press
ISBN 13 : 1906095094
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outer Hebrides written by Mike Sullivan and published by Pesda Press. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook contains 44 great sea kayak trips around the archipelago of the Outer Hebrides, Berneray to the Butt of Lewis and including St Kilda. The book presents all the navigational and tidal information a sea kayaker needs on this section of coast.

Author : Bill Lawson
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harris in History and Legend written by Bill Lawson and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS THE story of the communities and people of Harris in history and legend. One of the largest and most famous of all the islands of Scotland, astonishingly little has been written about the varied and eventful life of Harris, perhaps because the island has been so self contained. Including much material on the now deserted islands around Harris, including new information on St Kilda, Bill Lawson's book is the first modern account of Harris and those who have shaped its history over thousands of years.

Author : Ian Stephen
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750957948
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Isles Folk Tales written by Ian Stephen and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Isles Folk Tales is a representative collection of stories from the geographical span of the long chain of islands known as the Outer Hebrides. Some are well-known tales and others have been sought out by the author, but all are retold in the natural voice of a local man. You will find premonitions, accounts of uncanny events and mythical beings, such as the blue men of the stream who test mariners venturing into the tidal currents around the Shiant Islands. Also included are tales from islands now uninhabited, like the archipelago of St Kilda, in contrast to the witty yarns from bustling harbours. The author was the inaugural winner of the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship (1995) and his Acts of Trust collaboration with visual artist Christine Morrison won the multi-arts category in the first British Awards for Storytelling Excellence (2012). Both author and illustrator live in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

Author : Wilson McLeod
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857909738
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duanaire Na Sracaire written by Wilson McLeod and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive Gaelic-English anthology of medieval Scottish verse: an annotated treasure trove of literary history spanning a millennium. Duanaire na Sracaire—or Songbook of the Pillagers—is the first anthology to bring together Scotland’s Gaelic poetry from c.600-1600 AD, a time when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona, Fenian lays, praise poems and satires, courtly songs and lewd rants, songs of battle and death, incantations and love poems. All poems appear with facing-page translations which capture the spirit and beauty of the originals and are accompanied by detailed notes. A comprehensive introduction sets the context and analyses the role and functions of poetry in Gaelic society. This collection will appeal to poetry lovers, Gaelic speakers and those keen to explore a vital part of Scotland’s literary heritage.

Author : Lesley Riddoch
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1804250376
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides written by Lesley Riddoch and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides is a thought-provoking commentary based on broadcaster Lesley Riddoch's cycle journey through a beautiful island chain facing seismic cultural and economic change. Her experience is described in a typically affectionate but hard-hitting style; with humour, anecdote and a growing sympathy for islanders tired of living at the margins but fearful of closer contact with mainland Scotland.

Author : William Cook Mackenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Outer Hebrides (Lewis, Harris, North and South Uist, Benbecula, And Barra). written by William Cook Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Albinia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608565
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale written by Alice Albinia and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves history, myth, and travelogue to rewrite the story of this “island nation.” From Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by the collective term “Britanniae” (the Britains). This expansive journey demonstrates how the smaller islands have wielded disproportionate influence on the mainland, becoming the fertile ground of political, cultural, and technological innovations that shaped history throughout the archipelago. In an act of feminist inquiry, personal adventure, and literary quest, Alice Albinia embarks on a series of journeys that traverse Britain and reach beyond its contemporary borders—from Europe to the Caribbean, Ireland to Scandinavia. She walks the coastlines of Lindisfarne, sails through the Hebrides archipelago, and bikes into Westminster at dawn. As she takes us across extravagantly varied island topographies and surveys centuries of history, Albinia ranges between languages and genres, and through disparate island cultures. She talks to stubbornly independent islanders and searches for archaeological and linguistic traces of island identities, discovering distinct traditions and resistance to mainland control. Trespassing into the past to understand the present, The Britannias uncovers an enduring and subversive mythology of islands ruled by women. Albinia finds female independence woven through Roman colonial reports and Welsh medieval poetry, Restoration utopias and island folk songs. These neglected epics offer fierce feminist countercurrents to mainstream narratives of British identity and shed new light on women’s status in the body politic today. Vivid, perceptive, and disruptive, The Britannias boldly upturns established truths about Britain while revealing its suppressed and forgotten beauty.