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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Scotland
ISBN : OCLC:222426379
Author : David & Charles Publishers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : 0715354221
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : OCLC:217158495
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0331107724
Excerpt from Mountain Moor and Loch: Illustrated by Pen and Pencil From Settle (23643 miles) onwards to Carlisle the scenery is magnificent, the railway threading for seventy-two miles a mountainous district presenting almost insurmountable engineering difficulties in the construction of the road in 1869. Settle itself is a pleasant little market town surrounded by romantic scenery, some of the most picturesque scenes in the West Riding being within easy reach. We proceed onwards through Yorkshire, Westmoreland and Cumberland, piercing the Pennine range, and winding in and out amongst its numerous spurs, through country so rugged that the construction of the seventy-two miles of railway involved an expenditure of over three millions, while seven years were spent in the task, the principal engineering features being nineteen viaducts and thirteen tunnels, with innumerable deep cuttings and high embankments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : OCLC:1179307049
Author : House of Lochar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : 1899863893
This volume was originally published in 1894 to encourage the Victorian tourist to travel on te West Highland Line. The railway, which at that time had only just been complete, boasts more spectacular and romantic scenery than almost any railway in the world. We travel the same route today - beside the Clyde to Loch Long and on to Loch Lomond, Crianlarich, Tyndrum, Rannoch, Glencoe, Spean Bridge and past Ben Nevis to Fort William.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : UCAL:$B757131
Author : Scottish Mountaineering Club
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : UOM:39015035846610
Includes section "Mountaineering literature."
Author : Katherine Haldane Grenier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351878661
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become a popular site for English tourists? In Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914, Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the popular press to examine the evolution of the idea of Scotland. Though her primary subject is the cultural significance of Scotland for English tourists, in demonstrating how this region came to occupy a central role in the Victorian imagination, Grenier also sheds light on middle-class popular culture, including anxieties over industrialization, urbanization, and political change; attitudes towards nature; nostalgia for the past; and racial and gender constructions of the "other." Late eighteenth-century visitors to Scotland may have lauded the momentum of modernization in Scotland, but as the pace of economic, social, and political transformations intensified in England during the nineteenth century, English tourists came to imagine their northern neighbor as a place immune to change. Grenier analyzes the rhetoric of tourism that allowed visitors to adopt a false view of Scotland as untouched by the several transformations of the nineteenth century, making journeys there antidotes to the uneasiness of modern life. While this view was pervasive in Victorian society and culture, and deeply marked the modern Scottish national identity, Grenier demonstrates that it was not hegemonic. Rather, the variety of ways that Scotland and the Scots spoke for themselves often challenged tourists' expectations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Geography
ISBN : IND:30000099853800
Author : Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UCAL:$B142446
Author : Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015023453452
Author : T. C Smout
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748653973
This volume brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history.
Author : Mark Casson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191570414
The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
Author : Graeme Morton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748629534
This volume explores the experience of everyday life in Scotland over two centuries characterised by political, religious and intellectual change and ferment. It shows how the extraordinary impinged on the ordinary and reveals people's anxieties, joys, comforts, passions, hopes and fears. It also aims to provide a measure of how the impact of change varied from place to place.The authors draw on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including the material survivals of daily life in town and country, and on the history of government, religion, ideas, painting, literature, and architecture. As B. S. Gregory has put it, everyday history is 'an endeavour that seeks to identify and integrate everything - all relevant material, social, political, and cultural data - that permits the fullest possible reconstruction of ordinary life experiences in all their varied complexity, as they are formed and transformed.'