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Author : John Garvey
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1848761074
William Daniell's Isle of Skye and Raasay brings together 17 aquatint prints and 10 pencil sketches from the Hebridean islands of Eigg, Rum, Skye and Raasay, and photographs showing these views as they are today.
Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198850021
Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
Author : Mary-Ann Constantine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192593047
Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.
Author : Ian Buxton
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780857903518
Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique, and remote location captures the imagination; their highly distinctive flavours are often imitated but seldom bettered. There have been few books on island whisky and none written in recent years. But Whiskies Galore is not your average whisky book. It is not simply a catalogue of distilleries, but a story of discovery and adventure. Join Ian Buxton on a personal journey across Scotland's islands, where he learns to fish with high explosives, ends up hurling his dinner into the sea, and comes face to face with a basking shark. Combining an expert's knowledge of whisky with a travel writer's fondness for anecdote, and with a keen description of place, he provides a special treat for all who love the islands' magical drams.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Country life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132658183
Author : Greg Clingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521556252
This Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history.
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1922 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722678
Author : Richard Sharpe
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001772469
Author : Alice Maria Dougan,Margaret Furlong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015007168100
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1974-07
Category : Country life
ISBN : UOM:39015084408064
Author : Richard Ayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z136984408
Author : Richard Trench
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : IND:30000004419093
Britain seen through the eyes of travellers from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Brigid Benson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781788850728
Enjoy the local color and majestic scenery of the Scottish Highlands with this essential road trip guide along the scenic North Coast 500. Known as Scotland’s Route 66, the North Coast 500 takes travelers on a winding journey across northern Scotland’s breathtaking coastline. Acclaimed Scottish travel writer Brigid Benson guides you on a journey that begins in the charming city of Inverness, then weaves westward to the historic village of Applecross and up the Atlantic coast to the most northerly points in Britain before heading back to Inverness along the North Sea. In addition to stunning mountains, moors, lochs and beaches, the route also features exquisite towns and villages, castles, distilleries and breweries. Benson divides the route into manageable daily itineraries, suggesting where to discover history, observe wildlife, meet great local characters, shop at quirky stores, taste outstanding food, drink in friendly bars and cafes, and stand in awe of amazing sights. She also recommends campsites, inns and other places to stay, along with places to picnic, swim, surf, walk and stargaze. “For Scottish travel it doesn’t get better than North Coast Journey, an eco-friendly, common sensical, well-researched foray around the locale of the North Coast 500 and beyond.” —The Scotsman, UK
Author : David Addey
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : Coasts
ISBN : 1873376979
This illustrated volume records the next stages of Addey's journey from Land's End to Conway and Liverpool to the Clyde - and again contrasts his work with Daniell's engravings and descriptions.
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038195959
From the Cornish coast where Wilkie Collins walked, to the Western Islands of Scotland visited by Samuel Johnson, author Anthony Burton has followed in the footstps of eight earlier travelers in Britain, casting a fresh eye on the places they once so vividly described. In so doing, he has created a travel book of special charm and interest which presents something more than just a view of Britain today: it is a book where past and present unite. Indeed, Burton finds his own perceptions of familiar scenes altered in the light of what they saw. Lavishly illustrated with the author's photographs, contemporary illustrations, and maps of the travelers' routes, Britain Revisited also includes many delightful excerpts from the writings of William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, John Taylor, and the other travelers.