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  • TYNINGHAME
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    TYNINGHAME
    JUDY RILEY
    For many people, Tyninghame on the beautiful East Lothian coast means beaches, sea birds and salt marshes. But this place on the southern boundary of the Firth of Forth was once an important monastic site, the burial place of St Baldred and later a bishop's palace that eventually became the seat of the earls of Haddington. In the early eighteenth century, its landscape was dram...

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  • THE SURNAMES OF SCOTLAND
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    THE SURNAMES OF SCOTLAND
    GEORGE F. BLACK
    The classic A-to-Z reference on genealogy and Scottish history with details "drawn from official or other accredited sources . . . duly referred to and catalogued" ( Times Literary Supplement). First published by the New York Public Library in 1946, George F. Black's The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabe...

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  • LAND OF THE ILICH
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    LAND OF THE ILICH
    STEVEN MITHEN
    A comprehensive study of the evolution of human culture on the Hebridean island of Islay. As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island's people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to those who lived in townships and in the ...

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  • THE FOLKLORE OF ORKNEY & SHETLAND
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    THE FOLKLORE OF ORKNEY & SHETLAND
    ERNEST WALKER MARWICK
    This comprehensive volume of folkloric traditions in Scotland's Northern Isles is a treasure trove of stories, history, and cultural legacy. 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 Norwe...

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  • THIS GREAT HARBOUR
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    THIS GREAT HARBOUR
    W.S. HEWISON
    From the days of the Vikings to World War II, a history of the famous Scottish seaway. Known by mariners since Viking times as a safe anchorage in notoriously savage waters, Scapa Flow is the seaway that runs between the Orkney mainland and the island of Hoy. As the northern base of the Royal Navy and Allied fleets in two world wars, it witnessed some of the most seminal events...

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  • SKYE
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    SKYE
    OTTA SWIRE
    An oral history by "Scotland's forgotten folklorist" whose tale inspired the Neil Gaiman novella The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains ( The Spooky Isles).   This is a fabulous treasury of legend and wonder—tales of monsters who dwell in lakes; of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still; of dark, shapeshifting spirits whose cloak of human for...

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  • HOW AN ISLAND LOST ITS PEOPLE
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    HOW AN ISLAND LOST ITS PEOPLE
    ROBERT HAY
    In 1830, the little Hebridean island of Lismore was one of the granaries of the West Highlands, with every possible scrap of land producing bere barley or oats. The population had reached its peak of 1500, but by 1910, numbers had dwindled to 400 and were still falling. The agricultural economy had been almost completely transformed to support sheep and cattle, with ploughland ...

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  • A QUITE IMPOSSIBLE PROPOSAL
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    A QUITE IMPOSSIBLE PROPOSAL
    ANDREW DRUMMOND
    By the author of An Abridged History, "a detailed examination of an overlooked chapter in Scotland's transport history" ( The Scotsman). In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool. Despite rock-solid arguments in favor of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a fin...

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  • WARRIORS OF THE WORD
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    WARRIORS OF THE WORD
    MICHAEL NEWTON
    An enlightening illustrated overview of Gaelic culture and history in Scotland. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: Bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and...

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  • THE EASDALE DOCTOR
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    THE EASDALE DOCTOR
    MARY WITHALL
    An inspiring biography of a Victorian-era physician who gave up the promise of fortune and glory to serve his small community on a Scottish island. When Patrick Gillies graduated from the University of Edinburgh's distinguished school of medicine with honors in 1890, a high-profile career as a surgeon lay ahead of him. Any city across the world would have welcomed him, and his ...

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  • FROM THE ALLEGHENIES TO THE HEBRIDES
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    FROM THE ALLEGHENIES TO THE HEBRIDES
    MARGARET FAY SHAW
    The story of a woman's life, spanning the twentieth century and two continents: "A miniature masterpiece . . . often funny, sometimes moving, never sentimental." — Times Literary Supplement Margaret Fay Shaw's life spanned a century of change. Orphaned at eleven, she left home and school in Pennsylvania aged sixteen, crossing to Scotland to spend a year at school near Glasgow. ...

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  • HIGHLAND HOMESPUN
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    HIGHLAND HOMESPUN
    MARGARET LEIGH
    In the beloved Scottish author's classic memoir, she recounts a year in the life of a small traditional farm in the Western Highlands. In 1933, Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye. In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the burn...

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  • ARGYLL CURIOSITIES
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    ARGYLL CURIOSITIES
    MARIAN PALLISTER
    The author of Lost Argyll offers an illustrated journey through the local lore and hidden histories of this curious county in the southwest of Scotland. The great travelers of the 17th century used the word "curiosity" in reference to many different things. The label was equally applied to people, plants, legends, historical facts and geological certainties. In Argyll Curiositi...

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  • BLACK FRIDAY
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    BLACK FRIDAY
    PETER AITCHISON
    The true story of a small fishing village in 19th century Scotland and the deadly storm that left tragedy in its wake is recounted in this "gripping read" ( Scotsman, UK). On October 14th, 1881, a severe windstorm struck the southeastern coast of Scotland, devastating fishing communities throughout the region. In all, 189 fishermen were lost in a single afternoon. 129 of them h...

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  • KNOYDART
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    KNOYDART
    DENIS RIXSON
    A local historian chronicles the famously remote region of the Scottish Highlands from its early Viking settlers to the present day. Located in the "Rough Bounds" of northern Scotland, the remote region of Knoydart is Britain's last true wilderness. Deriving its name from Viking settlers, the desolate peninsula was home to warlike inhabitants who became notorious in the 18th ce...

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