The Highlands

Author : Calum Maclean
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574363
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highlands written by Calum Maclean and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new edition of this classic book, introduced by the world-renowned Gaelic poet Sorley Maclean, the late Calum I. Maclean, a Gaelic-speaking Highlander, interprets the traditional background, culture and ways of life of his native country. Calum's formal training in folk culture and the depth of his local knowledge make this book truly outstanding - it is written by a Highlander from the inside. Many books on the Highlands have been penned by outsiders with an uncritical appreciation of the scenery and only the most superficial knowledge of the Gaelic language and culture. By contrast, Maclean brought informed attitudes and sympathetic opinions. He was concerned not so much with places, beauty spots and scenery as with the Highlanders in their own self-created environment. He writes in terms of individuals and suggests reasons why Highland culture is unique in the world - it is something that, if lost, can never be recovered or recreated.

Author : Paul Murton
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 9781780277219
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highlands written by Paul Murton and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Murton journeys the length and breadth of the spectacularly beautiful Scottish Highlands. In addition to bringing a fresh eye to popular destinations such as Glencoe, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness and the Cairngorms, he also visits some remote and little-known locations hidden off the beaten track. Throughout his travels, Paul meets a host of modern Highlanders, from caber tossers and gamekeepers to lairds to pipers. With an instinct for the unusual, he uncovers some strange tales, myths and legends along the way: stories of Jacobites, clan warfare, murder and cattle rustling fill each chapter - as well as some hilarious anecdotes based on his extensive personal experience of a place he loves to call home.

Author : Amy Hoff
Publisher : Bella Books
ISBN 13 : 1642472425
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Heart's in the Highlands written by Amy Hoff and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suddenly the woman threw Jane facedown and was on top of her in an instant, covering her entire body. Jane was thrillingly aware of every place the woman’s muscular body touched her—from the heavy breasts pressing into her back, to the pleasing pressure of the long, strong legs. Jane’s heart hammered wildly in her chest… The year is 1888. Brilliant and beautiful, Lady Jane Crichton has fought the constraints of her Victorian Edinburgh upbringing to become one of the first women to attend university for medicine. Denied a degree because of her gender, she decides to marry a closeted gay man, providing him with political and social cover and herself with the time and money to pursue her scientific interests—one of which is a time machine. Jane’s machine works…but not exactly as she expected, and soon she has crash-landed in the 13th-century Scottish Highlands. There she is rescued by a wild, red-haired warrior woman, Ainslie nic Dòmhnaill, next in line to the chiefship of the great Clan Donald, the rulers of the Sea Kingdom of the Isles. Despite the constant threat of attacks from enemy clans, harsh winters and a touch of homesickness, Jane finds herself bewitched by this land, this time and this magnificent woman. The rough and warlike Ainslie also feels the magic and revels in a passion and love neither she nor Jane had ever imagined. But Jane is hiding a dangerous secret—one that threatens to tragically transform their Highland fairy tale.

Author : Melissa Wiley
Publisher : Topeka Bindery
ISBN 13 : 9781417787784
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little House in the Highlands written by Melissa Wiley and published by Topeka Bindery. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of six-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author : Sharon Gillenwater
Publisher : Palisades
ISBN 13 : 9780880709460
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of the Highlands written by Sharon Gillenwater and published by Palisades. This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of Scotland and its people.

Author : Anne Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932280562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Highlands written by Anne Perry and published by . This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are selections from "Letters from the Highlands" published monthly on the internet by Meridian Magazine, describing experiences in a small branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Northern Scotland. Thoughts on life and spiritual matters are drawn from events, talks, meditations on people and nature, and the commonality of emotion. From all of this can be gained joy, pain and wisdom.

Author : Veronica Wolff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425218990
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master of the Highlands written by Veronica Wolff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back to seventeenth century Scotland with the first romance in the Highlands series, as a modern woman finds true love across the ocean—and across time. Lily Hamlin has finally realized that her life isn’t as perfect as she once thought. Making a pilgrimage to Scotland, a land she’s only heard about in lullabies, Lily hopes that she can find her place again. But while exploring the Highlands, she discovers an overgrown maze and a strange stone map—and lands in the Lochaber of 1654. Ewen, Chief of the Clan Cameron, is a busy man who must figure out how to save his people from the brutal redcoats and has time for little else. Having sired an heir, the widowed Ewen has no need—or room—for another romance. Then into his life drops a saucy lass with a peculiar accent and no regard for his title. Drawn to each other despite their differences, they both realize that they don’t want Lily to go back to her own time. But with battles brewing between the Camerons, the redcoats, and a rival clan, staying could mean putting both their lives in danger...

Author : Anne Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752419046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folklore of the Scottish Highlands written by Anne Ross and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folklore of the Scottish Highlands is unique and very much alive. Dr Anne Ross is a Gaelic-speaking scholar and archaeologist who has lived and worked in crofting communities. This has enabled her to collect information at first hand and to assess the veracity of material already published. In this substantially revised edition of a classic work first published 30 years ago, she portrays the beliefs and customs of Scottish Gaelic society, including: seasonal customs deriving from Celtic festivals; the famous waulking songs; the Highland tradition of seers and second sight; omens and taboos, both good and bad; and, chilling experiences of witchcraft and the Evil Eye Rituals associated with birth and death. Having taken her MA, MA Hons and PhD at the University of Edinburgh, Anne Ross became Research Fellow in the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh. She then rapidly established herself as one of Britain's leading Celtic scholars. Her seminal work is "Pagan Celtic Britain" and she has also published "Druids - Preachers of Immortality" with Tempus Publishing.

Author : William Cornwallis Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highlands of Aethiopia written by William Cornwallis Harris and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Enoch
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1250095425
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hero in the Highlands written by Suzanne Enoch and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WILD AT HEART Scotland, 1812: He’s ferocious and rugged to the bone, an English soldier more at home on the battlefield than in any Society drawing room. And when Major Gabriel Forrester learns that he’s inherited the massive Scottish Highlands title and estate of a distant relation, the last thing he wants to do is give up the intensity of the battlefield for the too-soft indulgences of noble life. But Gabriel Forrester does not shirk his responsibilities, and when he meets striking, raven-eyed lass Fiona Blackstock, his new circumstances abruptly become more intriguing. Like any good Highlander, Fiona despises the English—and the new Duke of Lattimer is no exception. Firstly, he is far too attractive for Fiona’s peace of mind. Secondly, his right to “her” castle is a travesty, since it’s been clan Maxwell property for ages. As the two enter a heated battle of wills, an unexpected passion blazes into a love as fierce as the Highlands themselves. Is Fiona strong enough to resist her enemy’s advances—or is Gabriel actually her hero in disguise? “It’s time to fall in love with Suzanne Enoch.” —Lisa Kleypas