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  • SALT
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    SALT
    CHRISTOPHER A. WHATLEY / JOANNA HAMBLY
    Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing is one of Scotland’s oldest industries, dating to the eleventh century if not earlier. Smoke- and steam-emitting panhouses were once a common sight along the country’s coastline and a...

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  • HARVIE'S DYKE
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    HARVIE'S DYKE
    CHRISTOPHER A. WHATLEY
    In the early 1820s, Thomas Harvie, a newly rich, arrogant Glasgow distiller, bought Westthorn estate on the eastern edge of the city close to the north bank of the River Clyde. To establish the bounds of his property and keep out intruders, he erected two walls, the larger of which (‘Harvie’s Dyke’) was massive, fortified and blocked a long-established pathway alongside the riv...

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  • PABAY
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    PABAY
    CHRISTOPHER WHATLEY
    "An island history almost without comparison . . . one of the finest Highland books of the 21st century" from the renowned Scottish historian ( West Highland Free Press). The tiny diamond-shaped island of Pabay lies in Skye's Inner Sound, just two and a half miles from the bustling village of Broadford. One of five Hebridean islands of that name, it derives from the Norse papa-...

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