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Orkney

Caroline Wickham-Jones
Orkney Book PDF

Author : Caroline Wickham-Jones
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857905918

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Orkney lies only 20 miles north of mainland Scotland, yet for many centuries its culture was more Scandanavian than Scottish. Strong westerly winds account for the scarcity of trees on Orkney and also for the tradition of well-constructed stone structures. As a result, the islands boast a large number of exceptionally well-preserved remains, which help us to form a detailed picture of Orcadian life through the ages. Sites and remains to be explored include settlements from the Stone Age, stone circles and burials from the Bronze Age, Iron Age brochs, Viking castles, the magnificent cathedral of St Magnus in Kirkwall, Renaissance palaces, a Martello tower from the Napoleonic Wars and numerous remains from the Second World War. In this updated edition of her best-selling book, Caroline Wickham-Jones, who has worked extensively on Orcadian sites for many years, introduces the history of the islands and provides a detailed survey of the principal places and sites of historic interest.

Orkney

Richard Clubley
Orkney Book PDF

Author : Richard Clubley
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781910022832

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After moving permanently to the island he's always dreamed of, Richard Clubley here sets out to capture the experience of life on Orkney, from the history of Neolithic sites to a future in renewable energy, telling the stories of countless Orcadians along the way. Determined to travel further afield than his home on Mainland, Richard takes to the Outer Islands to meet the people who live there and tell their stories. Orkney: A Special Way of Life is a delight for any lover of Scotland's remote places, filled with rich descriptions of the islands.

The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland

Ernest Marwick
The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland Book PDF

Author : Ernest Marwick
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788852722

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The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the 'simmer din'. Originally Norwegian, they have been part of Scotland for five hundred years, but their many and varied legends, folk tales and customs are still saturated with Norse influences. While this book tells tales and discusses beliefs that are known throughout the northern isles, it also outlines those elements which are unique to each island group. The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland is the standard account of what to this day is one of the richest repositories of lore and custom in Britain. Ernest Marwick not only recounts countless tales which have been transmitted aurally and by writing, but also places these tales within geographical and historical contexts, thus enabling a deeper appreciation of this wonderful material. A bibliography is also included, together with an index of tale types and motifs.

Orkney

Amy Sackville
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Author : Amy Sackville
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619023161

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“A haunting novel” about sex and obsession, set off the coast of Scotland and “full of otherworldly emotion and strange impulses” (Marie Claire). A professor marries his prize student, a woman forty years his junior, and at her request, he takes her to the sea for their honeymoon. His life’s work is a book about enchantment–narratives in literature, most of them involving strange girls and women—but soon he finds himself distracted by his own enchantment with his new white–haired young wife. They travel to the Orkney Islands, the ancient Mesolithic and Neolithic site north of the Scottish coast, a barren place of extraordinary beauty known as “the Seal Islands.” And as the days of their honeymoon pass, his desire and his constant, yearning contemplation become his normality. His mysterious bride becomes his entire universe. He is consumed . . . From the author of The Still Point, a winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, this is a novel that “will appeal to literature aficionados: a Lolita–esque love, a romance born out of academia, and folklore come to life” (Booklist). “What begins as a familiar, almost fairytale–like narrative ends as something more fragmented, unsettling, and odd . . . Providing a brooding, bruised, ever–changing backdrop to all this is Orkney, the book’s most compelling character of all. In a tribute to Virginia Woolf’s experimental masterpiece, The Waves, the sea in Orkney functions as a kind of rhythmic talisman, its ebb and flow mirrored in the actions, ideas, and themes of the book. More than anything, Sackville’s Orkney is a breathtaking place in the most literal of senses.” —The Scotsman

The Orkney Book of Birds

Tim Dean,Tracy Hall
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Author : Tim Dean,Tracy Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bird watching
ISBN : 1902957466

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The pictures are so nice, that the book would also be useful as a source of artistic reference pictures. All of the images are of birds in standing poses, rather than in a range of positions, however the images are skillfully drawn and reproduced on good paper, using what appears to be artist's colouring pencils.

Thoughts on Orkney and Zetland

Alexander G. Groat
Thoughts on Orkney and Zetland Book PDF

Author : Alexander G. Groat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Orkney (Scotland)
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2MEL

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The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney

Colin Richards,Richard Jones
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney Book PDF

Author : Colin Richards,Richard Jones
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909686922

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The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney by Colin Richards,Richard Jones Pdf

Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone circles, standing stones and passage graves provides an unusually comprehensive range of archaeological and architectural contexts. Yet, in the early 1990s, there was a noticeable imbalance between 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC evidence, with house structures, and ‘villages’ being well represented in the latter but minimally in the former. As elsewhere in the British Isles, the archaeological visibility of the 4th millennium cal BC in Orkney tends to be dominated by the monumental presence of chambered cairns or tombs. In the 1970s Claude Lévi-Strauss conceived of a form of social organization based upon the ‘house’ – sociétés à maisons – in order to provide a classification for social groups that appeared not to conform to established anthropological kinship structures. In this approach, the anchor point is the ‘house’, understood as a conceptual resource that is a consequence of a strategy of constructing and legitimizing identities under ever shifting social conditions. Drawing on the results of an extensive program of fieldwork in the Bay of Firth, Mainland Orkney, the text explores the idea that the physical appearance of the house is a potent resource for materializing the dichotomous alliance and descent principles apparent in the archaeological evidence for the early and later Neolithic of Orkney. It argues that some of the insights made by Lévi-Strauss in his basic formulation of sociétés à maisons are extremely relevant to interpreting the archaeological evidence and providing the parameters for a ‘social’ narrative of the material changes occurring in Orkney between the 4th and 2nd millennia cal BC. The major excavations undertaken during the Cuween-Wideford Landscape Project provided an unprecedented depth and variety of evidence for Neolithic occupation, bridging the gap between domestic and ceremonial architecture and form, exploring the transition from wood to stone and relationships between the living and the dead and the role of material culture. The results are described and discussed in detail here, enabling tracing of the development and fragmentation of sociétés à maisons over a 1500 year period of Northern Isles prehistory.

Orkney's Italian Chapel

Philip Paris
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Author : Philip Paris
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781845026141

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Orkney's Italian Chapel by Philip Paris Pdf

Orkney's Italian Chapel was built by Italian POWs held on the island during the Second World War. In the sixty-five years since it was built it has become an enduring symbol of peace and hope around the world. The story of who built the chapel and how it came into existence and survived against all the odds is both fascinating and inspiring. Author Philip Paris's extensive research into the creation of the Italian Chapel has uncovered many new facts, and this comprehensive new book is the definitive account of the chapel and those who built it. It is a book that has waited to be written for sixty-five years.

Hand-book to the Orkney islands

Orkney
Hand book to the Orkney islands Book PDF

Author : Orkney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590737396

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The history of the Orkney islands ...

George Barry
The history of the Orkney islands Book PDF

Author : George Barry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10225797

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A week among the antiquities of Orkney

James Augustus Henry Murray
A week among the antiquities of Orkney Book PDF

Author : James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : NLS:B000400083

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