Highland Journey

Highland Journey
Title Highland Journey PDF eBook
Author Colin MacGilp MacDonald
Publisher
Pages 168
Release 1943
Genre Highlands (Scotland)
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Highland Journey

Highland Journey
Title Highland Journey PDF eBook
Author Robin Gillanders
Publisher Birlinn Publishers
Pages 120
Release 2009
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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Over a period of 90 days, Robin Gillanders journeyed throughout the Highlands of Scotland and Orkney in the spirit of Edwin Muir's Scottish Journey of 1934, photographing whoever and whatever he encountered. The journey was made in a campervan with the shower converted into a darkroom, so that film processing could take place 'on the road'. In the manner of itinerant photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries, he used a traditional large format camera and black and white film, the photographs, each with accompanying text, describe the journey and relate to specific issues facing the highlands today and draw comparison with Edwin Muir's highlands of 75 years ago. Edwin Muir became particularly interested in the nature of Scottish 'identity' during his journey and his descriptions have become an important historical resource for the economic, political and social condition of Scotland between the world wars. As with Muir in 1934, it was not Gillanders' intention to present an image of the 'tourist' Highlands, but rather to present an honest, and subjective account of what he encountered. This is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of contemporary life in the Scottish Highlands and is set to become as important a record as Edwin Muir's venerated work.

Highland Journey

Highland Journey
Title Highland Journey PDF eBook
Author Mairi Hedderwick
Publisher Canongate Books
Pages 204
Release 1992
Genre Architecture
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Following the success of an Eye on the Hebrides, Mairi Hedderwick was urged to embark on further travels. It was no easy task. A new journey, with its inherent deprivations and discomforts, could not be done to order. It had to be a compulsion - an inspiration.

Highland Journey

Highland Journey
Title Highland Journey PDF eBook
Author Mairi Hedderwick
Publisher Birlinn
Pages 192
Release 2009
Genre Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN 9781841587936

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In Highland Journey, Mairi Hedderwick retraces the steps of an obscure Victorian artist, John T. Reid, who made a sketching tour around Scotland in 1876. Hedderwick, a witty and immensely readable author of children's books, achieves so much more than simply following in Reid's footsteps; wonderfully realized, her quest becomes obsessional at times as she struggles to understand her mentor and guide with whom she shares a passion to conserve Scotland's wild places and record them faithfully with exquisite illustration and insightful comment.

Hell of a Journey

Hell of a Journey
Title Hell of a Journey PDF eBook
Author Mike Cawthorne
Publisher Birlinn
Pages 241
Release 2013-03-08
Genre Travel
ISBN 0857906275

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Hell of a Journey describes what is arguably the last great journey to be undertaken in Britain: the entire Scottish Highlands on foot in one winter. On one level it is a vivid and evocative account of a remarkable trek - never attempted before - on another it celebrates the uniqueness of the Highlands, the scenery and ecology of 'the last wilderness in Europe'. The challenge Mike Cawthorne set himself was to climb all 135 of Scotland's 1,000-metre peaks, which stretch in an unbroken chain through the heart of the Highlands, from Sutherland to the Eastern Cairngorms, down to Loch Lomond, and west to Glencoe. His route traversed the most spectacular landscape in Scotland, linking every portion of wilderness, and was completed in the midst of the harshest winter conditions imaginable. Acclaimed on its first publication in 2000, this edition contains an epilogue in which Mike Cawthorne reflects on his trek and wonders what has changed since he carried it out. He warns that 'wild land in Scotland has never been under greater threat'. Hell of a Journey is a reminder of what we could so easily lose forever.

Highland Fling

Highland Fling
Title Highland Fling PDF eBook
Author Tess Mallory
Publisher Love Spell
Pages 0
Release 2003
Genre Scotland
ISBN 9780505525260

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Visiting Scotland, Texas scientist Chelsea Brown suddenly bumps heads with Griffin Campbell, a Highlander who sets her heart racing. First he kisses her senseless, then destroys a television, vowing to protect her from the tiny barbarians in the box. Breathless with confusion and desire, Chelsea soon finds herself wrapped in the past. Original.

The Desperate Journey

The Desperate Journey
Title The Desperate Journey PDF eBook
Author Kathleen Fidler
Publisher Floris Books
Pages 128
Release 2014-03-20
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1782500901

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Twins Kirsty and David Murray are forced to leave their crofting home in the north of Scotland, and struggle to cope with life in Glasgow, where the work is hard and dangerous. Then comes a chance for a new adventure on a ship bound for Canada. Will they survive the treacherous Atlantic crossing, and what will they find in the strange new land? The Desperate Journey is Kathleen Fidler's best-known story, a true Scottish classic whose thrilling plot will keep children gripped till the end.