Summer Walkers

Author : Timothy Neat
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people)
ISBN : 1780273967

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Summer Walkers by Timothy Neat Pdf

The Summer Walkers is the name the crofters of Scotland's North-west Highlands gave the Travelling People - the inerrant tinsmiths, horse-dealers, hawkers and pearl-fishers who made their living 'on the road'. These people are not gypsies - they are indigenous Gaelicspeaking Highlanders who are heirs to a vital and ancient culture. This book documents their way of life and explores their customs, superstitions, unique language, stories, poetry and songs rough photographs and remembrances. The result is a poignant and deeply moving record of a way of life now on the verges of living memory.

Author : Timothy Neat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000050663636

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The Summer Walkers by Timothy Neat Pdf

Includes autobiographical narratives.

Author : Gillian Price
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783624423

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Walking in the Dolomites by Gillian Price Pdf

A guidebook to 25 multi-day treks in the Dolomites of north-east Italy. The routes range from moderate to challenging in difficulty, with varying degrees of mountain traverses, scrambles and exposure so a good head for heights is needed. The treks range from 11 to 41km (7–25 miles) with daily distances of between 5 and 15km (3–9 miles). Each trek is designed to be hut-to-hut and last 2–4 days. The routes explore the major mountain groups of the UNESCO World Heritage site including Sella and Marmolada. 1:100,000 maps are included for each walk Treks feature notes on access, difficulty and recommended maps for navigation on the ground Public transport and accommodation options are detailed

Author : Lesley Williams,Jonathan Williams
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783629886

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Walking in the Bernese Oberland - Jungfrau region by Lesley Williams,Jonathan Williams Pdf

A guidebook to 50 day walks in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland. Exploring the dramatic scenery of the Jungfrau region the walks are suitable for beginner and experienced walkers alike and cover Grindelwald, Wengen, Lauterbrunnen Valley and Mürren. Walks range from 5 to 23km (3–14 miles) in length and can be enjoyed in 1–10 hours. Each walk is graded to allow you to select the most suitable routes for your ability. Many also take advantage of the widespread public transport and lifts around the Bernese Oberland to provide options for walks at a higher altitude. 1:50,000 maps included for each walk GPX files available to download Highlights include Untersteinberg and Schynige Platte Detailed information on accommodation, facilities and alpine huts

Author : Kev Reynolds
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781849654388

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Walking in the Alps by Kev Reynolds Pdf

The second edition of this classic guidebook by Kev Reynolds on walking and trekking in the Alps. This book is a definitive guide to the many thousands of possible routes, with a geographical span that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italy's Gran Paradiso to the little-known Türnitzer Alps of eastern Austria, and from the ice-bound giants of the Bernese Oberland to the green rolling Kitzbüheler Alps and the bizarre towers of the Dolomites of South Tirol, showing the amazing diversity of this wonderful mountain chain. There are walks to suit every taste: gentle and undemanding, long and tough, and everything in between. Written by Britain's most respected authority on the Alps, this is a fully updated edition of this important book.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UCBK:C100181870

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1924 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015079817071

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Timothy Neat
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857904874

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Hamish Henderson: Volume 2 by Timothy Neat Pdf

Hamish Henderson lived one of the great lives of twentieth-century Scotland, a dramatic life of epic European scale, a life of major artistic, political and spiritual achievement. Well-known as a songwriter, a poet and a pioneer in the field of Scottish folksong, Henderson was also a highly original translator of poetry - from Gaelic, French, German, Latin and Greek - much of it into Scots. He also translated the work of the Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, whose "Prison Letters" he published in English in 1974. Born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, in 1919, Hamish Henderson spent his early years in Glenshee before moving to Ireland and then Devon. He won a scholarship to Dulwich College and went on to study Modern Languages at Cambridge. During the Second World War he served in North Africa and Italy with the 51st Highland Division. He died in March 2002. This book, a major study of this charismatic and fascinating man, presents both a detailed biography and an assessment of his place in the context of the twentieth century. It is based on first-hand interviews with those who knew Henderson both personally and professionally as well as detailed research of published and unpublished sources.

Author : Marilyn Bowering
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780228021674

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More Richly in Earth by Marilyn Bowering Pdf

Mary MacLeod (Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. While her lyrics were honoured, she was also marginalized, denigrated as a witch, and exiled, both for being a writer and for what she wrote. Presented as a chronicle of journeys through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s legacy, preserved within landscape, memory, and identity. In an act of recovery and restoration, Canadian poet and novelist Marilyn Bowering pieces together the puzzle of radically different accounts of MacLeod’s life, returning to the places the bard once lived with the help of contemporary Scottish Gaelic poets and scholars. Through investigation and imagination, Bowering forms a connection with MacLeod despite vast differences of culture and language, time and place. Their connection deepens as Bowering twines MacLeod’s story with accounts of the people and places that shaped her own life, a connection that ultimately reveals the foundations of Bowering’s artistic vocation to herself. MacLeod’s life and writing, little known today beyond the Gaelic world, harbours cultural truths about a transformative era of war and colonization in Gaelic Scotland. Bringing a poetic sensibility to investigative scholarship, More Richly in Earth offers a profound reflection on the necessity of art in all forms.

Author : Jonathan Hurdle
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0898866405

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Walking Austria's Alps by Jonathan Hurdle Pdf

Newly updated, "Walking Austria's Alps" offers 11 treks, ranging from four to 11 days in length, which include nightly stops at a mountain hut where walkers can eat well and sleep in comfort. The daily itineraries allow plenty of time for interesting detours, climbs on nearby peaks, or simply sitting to admire the scenery. 75 b&w photos, 40 maps.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Northern Eye Books Limited
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780955355714

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Walking Cheshire's Sandstone Trail by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Alan Acton,Gary Mundy
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0900458763

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Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity by Thomas Alan Acton,Gary Mundy Pdf

Romany culture is perhaps the most Indo-European of all. The ancestors of the Gypsies left India around 1000 years ago and mixed with every culture on the way to produce a variety of Romany dialects and well-known cultural achievements from Hungarian Gypsy music to the English Gypsy caravan. Such images somehow co-exist, however, with continuous persecution.

Author : Fiona Lindsay Shen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789146226

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Pearl by Fiona Lindsay Shen Pdf

From their creation in the maw of mollusks to lustrous objects of infatuation and conflict, a revealing look at pearls’ dark history. This book is a beautifully illustrated account of pearls through millennia, from fossils to contemporary jewelry. Pearls are the most human of gems, both miraculous and familiar. Uniquely organic in origin, they are as intimate as our bodies, created through the same process as we grow bones and teeth. They have long been described as an animal’s sacrifice, but until recently their retrieval often entailed the sacrifices of enslaved and indentured divers and laborers. While the shimmer of the pearl has enticed Roman noblewomen, Mughal princes, Hollywood royalty, mavericks, and renegades, encoded in its surface is a history of human endeavor, abuse, and aspiration—pain locked in the layers of a gleaming gem.

Author : Jonathan Bousfield,Rob Humphreys
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Austria
ISBN : 185828709X

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The Rough Guide to Austria by Jonathan Bousfield,Rob Humphreys Pdf

Venture across every inch of this prosperous and stable central European country, from the cosmopolitan capital of Vienna--packed with cultural offerings and late-night musikcafes--to the awesome Alpine backwaters of the Tyrol or winemaking villages. Learn how to stretch your budget in what can be an expensive country to visit. 40 maps. color photos.

Author : Katharine Stewart
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788850018

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A Life in the Hills by Katharine Stewart Pdf

Katharine Stewart, who died in 2013, was one of Scotland's best-loved writers on rural life in the Highlands. A Croft in the Hills, her first book, tells the story of how a couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, took over a remote hill croft near Loch Ness and made a living from it. Full of warm personal insights, good humour and a love of living things, it has become a classic and has rarely been out of print since it was first published in 1960. This omnibus gathers A Croft in the Hills together with some of Katharine's later books: A Garden in the Hills, describing a year in the life of her Highland garden; A School in the Hills, a vivid history of the school at Abriachan which eventually became the Stewarts' family home; and The Post in the Hills, which tells the dramatic story of the postal service in the Highlands, from the point of view of Katharine's later role as postmistress of the smallest post office in Scotland, run from the porch of her Abriachan schoolhouse. Each of these books glows with what Neil Gunn described as 'its unusual quality, its brightness and its wisdom'. The omnibus will bring the grace, charm and wisdom of Katharine Stewart's writing to a new generation of readers.