The Vatersay Raiders

The Vatersay Raiders


ISBN: 9781841585536
Category: Local History, History
Author: Ben Buxton
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: reprinting  

Synopsis:

This book, the first about Vatersay, draws on detailed records to tell the remarkable story of the raiders: their struggle to escape from the poverty which, they claimed, the policies of the absentee landowner forced them to endure, the raiding and settlement of the island and the fraught process of dividing it up into crofts.


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A Very Scotch Affair

A Very Scotch Affair


ISBN: 9781904598442
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: July 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock  
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Synopsis:
Set in Glasgow, Jenkins' novel tells the tale of Mungo Niven, a man who possesses a fiercely Scotch conscience and who feels trapped in a drab and unfulfilling existence.
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Victorian Travel on the West Highland Line

Victorian Travel on the West Highland Line


ISBN: 9781899863891
Category: Railways, Transport
Author: Anon
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

This volume was originally published in 1894 to encourage the Victorian tourist to travel on the West Highland Line. The railway, which at that time had only just been completed, boasts more spectacular and romantic scenery than almost any railway in the world.


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A View from North Lochs

A View from North Lochs


ISBN: 9781841586304
Category: Essays, Fiction, Humour
Author: Aimsir Eachainn
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not in stock  

Synopsis:
Writing under the alias of ‘Aimsir Eachann’, Hector Macdonald was a weekly columnist who gave a voice to the Scottish Gael. This book is a collection of the very best of those remarkable columns.
        
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Vikings in America

Vikings in America


ISBN: 9781841587011
Category: World History
Author: Graeme Davis
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:
A groundbreaking new study on the discovery of America which preceded the voyage of Christopher Columbus.

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Villages of Northern Argyll

Villages of Northern Argyll


ISBN: 9780859765848
Category: Local History, History
Author: Mary Withall
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Argyll's historical importance goes back for thousands of years. As the centre of the kingdom of Dalriada the area was of seminal importance in terms of Gaelic culture, and was also of extreme significance in the spread of Celtic Christianity.


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Villages of Southern Argyll

Villages of Southern Argyll


ISBN: 9780859765831
Category: Local History, History
Author: Marian Pallister
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Award-winning journalist Marian Pallister has brought together historical fact and contemporary reminiscence to give a fascinating insight into the origins and development of human settlement in this beautiful outpost of Scotland.


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Vinland

Vinland


ISBN: 9781904598336
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

Vinland, George Mackay Brown’s fourth novel, follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmundson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages, when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future.
    
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Visiting the Bard

Visiting the Bard


ISBN: 9781904598022
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Alasdair Campbell
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

The astonishing range and scope of Alasdair Campbell's writing is highlighted in this collection of short stories set in Lewis.


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The Voice of the Bard

The Voice of the Bard


ISBN: 9780862418427
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Timothy Neat
Publication Date: January 1999
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

The Voice of the Bard presents biographical portraits of fourteen poets and singers.


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