Hebridean Memories
Author : Seton Paul Gordon
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Page : 268 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Birds
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Author : Seton Paul Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Birds
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Author : Seton Paul Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Birds
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Author : Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
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Author : Angus Duncan
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
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ISBN : 9781912476695
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 magnificent account of Scarp describes an island community and a way of life now all but forgotten. It includes 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.
Author : Emily Macdonald
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 196?
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : 9780950065106
Author : Emily Lever Macdonald (afterwards Mrs. [from old catalogue].)
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Page : pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Angus Duncan
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
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"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.
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Concert programs
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Roger Hutchinson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857900749
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