Beyond The Secret Howff

Author : Ashie Brebner
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781912387250

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Beyond the Secret Howff by Ashie Brebner Pdf

As a young man with a compelling interest in the great outdoors and the natural world Allister ('Ashie') Brebner spent his precious weekends in the 1950s and early '60s as a pioneer of the emerging Scottish bothying and mountaineering scene, and was one of the builders of the famed Secret Howff on Bheinn a' Bhuird in the Cairngorms. At the start of the 1960s he threw in his steady, well-paid job as a factory worker and, with another companion who did the same, started as a pioneer of mountain and nature guiding in the Scottish Highlands. Here is the unique story of a working man whose odyssey took him from the tenements and factory work of Aberdeen to the mountains and islands of the Highlands, their people and their wildlife.

Author : Patrick Baker
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857908094

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The Cairngorms by Patrick Baker Pdf

Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery. There have been rare human incursions into the Cairngorm plateau, and Patrick Baker tracks them down. He traces elusive wildlife and relives ghostly sightings on the summit of Ben Macdui. From the search for a long-forgotten climbing shelter and the locating of ancient gem mines, to the discovery of skeletal aircraft remains and the hunt for a mysterious nineteenth-century aristocratic settlement, he seeks out the unlikeliest and most interesting of features in places far off the beaten track. The cultural and human impact of this stunning landscape and reflections on the history of mountaineering are the threads which bind this compelling narrative together.

Author : Ian R Mitchell
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913025755

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Aberdeen by Ian R Mitchell Pdf

Ian R Mitchell recognises his hometown is an often underloved place, but in Aberdeen: Beyond the Granite he sets out an overwhelming case as to why this sentiment is thoroughly undeserved. An Aberdonian born and bred, Mitchell has lived in Glasgow for almost four decades. Returning to his roots, he delves into Aberdeen's rich and often unseen history and culture from an exile's perspective, revealing a proudly unique city, home to the world's oldest surviving company, the UK's oldest newspaper, and perhaps Britain's oldest Italian restaurant!

Author : Haliburton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00024555

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Furth in Field by Haliburton Pdf

Author : James Logie Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Leven, Loch
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081258543

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Furth in Field by James Logie Robertson Pdf

Author : Andrea MacPherson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307369949

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Beyond the Blue by Andrea MacPherson Pdf

In a Scottish mill town purged of men by war, four unforgettable women navigate a treacherous time, guided only by the bonds of family and their bold dreams of escape. In 1918, rainy Dundee is nearly emptied of men. The Great War has left the town’s women both newfound freedom and servitude. They toil in the deadly jute mills, taking in the children of perished family members and praying their own bodies – and spirits – do not fail them too. A grateful widow of the war, Morag shelters her daughters as best she can: beautiful Caro schemes to escape the working class with well-calculated seduction, while Wallis works in the mill alongside her mother, slowly fortifying both spirit and pocketbook for a more radical departure. Morag’s orphaned niece, Imogen, seeks to understand her fragile mother’s death, and the return of the father who abandoned them. Infused with the longing, courage and passion of its indelible cast of characters, and steeped in the faith and terrors of its time – from the suffragettes and the Easter Uprising to the influenza pandemic and the Tay Bridge disaster – Beyond the Blue is a lyrical, reflective novel about finding purpose and freedom in a place without hope.

Author : Tim Knowles
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Environment (Art)
ISBN : 1789382114

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The Howff Project by Tim Knowles Pdf

The Howff Project is an exploration of artist Tim Knowles's landscape project by the same name. For more than two years, Knowles built a network of hidden, site-specific shelters across the Scottish landscape. Inspired by the Scottish word "howff," which describes an abode, tavern, familiar haunt, or shelter, Knowles utilized existing structures and features in the landscape and then adapted, modified, and reconfigured their characteristics to create a series of unique hidden shelters, providing refuge in remote areas. The Howff Project takes readers behind the scenes of the making of each structure, from conception to finished product. Visually rich, the book captures the landscape through more than one hundred stunning photographs and drawings, and personal anecdotes detail Knowles's experience traveling through the Scottish Lowlands and the mountains of Aberdeenshire and the Cairngorms.

Author : Dave Brown,Ian R. Mitchell
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781912387960

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Mountain Days and Bothy Nights by Dave Brown,Ian R. Mitchell Pdf

Acknowledged as a classic of mountain writing, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills as Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan and Stumpy the Big Yin stalk hill and public house, evading gamekeepers and Royalty.

Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:N11514678

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The heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott Pdf

Author : Geoff Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191063610X

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The Scottish Bothy Bible by Geoff Allan Pdf

Author : Mary Edward
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912387335

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Who Belongs to Glasgow by Mary Edward Pdf

Why are there so many Italian hairdressers and Chinese restaurants in Glasgow? Who's more Glaswegian: an Irishman, a Highlander or a Pole? Whos city is this anyway? For the past 200 years, immigrants to Glasgow have found prosperity and poverty in its streets and closes. Mary Edward investigates their history, and the contribution they have brought to the city. With clear-sighted social analysis and an impressive assembly of historical evidence, Edward weaves a vivid tapestry of the many peoples and cultures that have created contemporary Glasgow. The staggering diversity of languages, religions and ethnicities is no new phenomenon in this city on the Clyde. Today's Glasweigans are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of yesterday's incomers, all of whom have chosen this great Scottish melting pot as their own. This book will be an education and a delight to generations of Glasweigans - and all those proud to belong to Glasgow.

Author : Eugen Herrigel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9356610800

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Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel Pdf

Zen in the Art of Archery, a classic text on Eastern philosophy, is a beautiful and immensely informative narrative of one man's Zen experience. Eugen Herrigel, a German philosopher in Tokyo, began studying archery as a means of better comprehending Zen Buddhism. This is the story of how he overcame his first inhibitions and began to feel his way toward new realities and ways of seeing throughout his six years as a student of one of Japan's great kyudo (archery) masters.

Author : David Masson,George Grove,John Morley,Mowbray Walter Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101076425915

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Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson,George Grove,John Morley,Mowbray Walter Morris Pdf

Author : Sir George Grove,David Masson,John Morley,Mowbray Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092684232

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MacMillan's Magazine by Sir George Grove,David Masson,John Morley,Mowbray Morris Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183015815101

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Macmillan's Magazine by Anonim Pdf