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.

Author : Amanda Thomson
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838854738
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belonging written by Amanda Thomson and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2022 Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest. Belonging is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves. Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson's artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are.

Author : Betty Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Crombie Jardine Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848398042
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concise Dictionary of Scottish Quotations written by Betty Kirkpatrick and published by Crombie Jardine Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise but comprehensive collection of famous Scottish quotes.

Author : Edda Starck
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN 13 : 3863956109
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amongst Aliens and Ghosts written by Edda Starck and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2023 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new conservation paradigm, rewilding is quickly gaining popularity across Scotland. Against the urgencies of the Anthropocene, rewilding projects offer hope by imagining radical visions of biodiverse futures that promise liveability not just to humans but a large host of species. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Scotland, this study explores the diverse multispecies temporalities that come to matter within rewilding. Scottish rewilding landscapes are populated by various beings and absences that blur rigid categorisations of linear temporality into past, present, and future. The ghosts of extirpated species continue to shape the becoming of landscapes, and the unruly presence of invasive alien species complicate the convivial ethics of rewilding initiatives. Following the temporal entanglements of various Scottish beasts, this book describes the interconnections between time, death, and belonging in storied landscapes.

Author : John Jamieson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789354041693
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (Volume I) written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Merryn Glover
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788855175
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Fires written by Merryn Glover and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender. In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as companion and guiding light. Following in the footsteps and contours of The Living Mountain, she explores the same landscapes and themes as Shepherd's seminal work. This is a journey separated by time but unified by space and purpose, a conversation between two women across nearly a century that explores how entering the life of a mountain can illuminate our own. An Australian who grew up in the Himalayas, her early experiences of the Scottish hills and weather left her cold. But gradually acclimatising and with an approach like Shepherd's, that is more mountain wandering than mountaineering, she discovers the spark that sets the hills and herself on fire. Through Glover's deepening encounter, the wild majesty and iridescence of the Cairngorms is revealed in this beautiful evocation of landscape, place and identity. 'Merryn Glover's The Hidden Fires is not just brave, it is remarkable' – Sir John Lister-Kaye

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 : Jilly Glassborow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780246127310
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concise Dictionary of Nature written by Jilly Glassborow and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert McColl Millar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474416888
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Scots written by Robert McColl Millar and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your user-friendly study and revision guide to Scots criminal law, written specially for students by a law lecturer with over 20 years of teaching experience.

Author : Shara McCallum
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 194857943X
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Ruined Stone written by Shara McCallum and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone?