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Written in Bone
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Simon Beckett
Forensic expert Dr. David Hunter ignites a harrowing murder investigation on a windswept Scottish island, unraveling a tale of menace, sexuality, and revenge.
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Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
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Adam Nicolson
A riveting book for all readers who know and love a place where the sea meets the land. In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad -- "Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres . . . Puffins and seals. Apply . . ." -- and found the Shiants (the name means holy or enchanted islands). Adam inherited this almost ...
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Bruach blend
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Lillian Beckwith
What can take the fire out of a fever and the ache out of loneliness? The answer according to Tearlaich is whiskey! And when he suggests to Lillian that the Islanders should have their own blend, Lillian can see his logic. Here is a pleasurable glimpse of the way the Islanders, with irreverent practicality, manage on the island of Bruach.
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Whisky galore
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Compton MacKenzie
'Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.' The hilarious story of wartime bootlegging in the Scottish islands. Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing seems to go right. Then the fifty-thousand-bottle cargo of ...
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Sea for Breakfast
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Beckwith
The Sea for Breakfast finds "Miss Peckwitt" (as the islanders endearingly pronounce her name) settling into a home of her own on Bruach, and mastering -- with the help, and frequently the hindrance, of her fellow islanders -- such varied arts as peat-cutting, winkle-picking, and beachcombing. Originally published in 1961.
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Hills Is Lonely
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Beckwith
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1959
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Beautiful Just
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Beckwith
The island of Bruach provides the setting for more stories of life among the crofters. Packed with hilarious incident and evocative descriptions of glorious landscape and wildlife, Beautiful Just! is an enchanting evocation of crofting life in the Hebrides.
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Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village
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Susan Parman
SCOTTISH CROFTERS: A HISTORICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF A CELTIC VILLAGE focuses on Geall, a community in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. With an understanding gained from an intimate, long-term relationship with Scotland, things Scottish, and the people of the community, the author describes Geall as a human community and places it in the wider cultural, ...
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The loud halo
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Lillian Beckwith
Filled with the same sort of happy spirits, eccentric characters, and amusing anecdotes which distinguished its predecessors, The Loud Halo brings to a humorous and spirited conclusion a wonderful trio of narratives. Originally published in 1964.
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Rope in Case
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All We Hold Dear
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Kathryn Lynn Davis
Seeking the truth about her past, young Eva Crawford discovers a battered journal that reveals the story of her ancestors from the viewpoints of its remarkable women, and she finds the strength to confront a disturbing truth.
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Lightly poached
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Lillian Beckwith
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Atlantic Fury
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Hammond Innes
George Farnell's legacy came to light 10 years after his disappearance. Two lines of poetry and a lump of ore were all he had left. Yet they were enough to send mineral expert Gill Gansert to Norway. But word of Farnell's findings had already leaked out. Hammond Innes is the author of "Isvek".
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Bay of Strangers
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Beckwith
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Children of Rhanna
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Christine Marion Fraser
Lorn, Lewis, Ruth and Rachel had been inseperable friends since childhood. The close-knit island community of Rhanna had watched them grow up, seeing each other through the bad times. But now they are grown up and face a harsher world.
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Seasons on Harris: A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides
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David Yeadon (Illustrator)
For many armchair travelers the Outer Hebrides of Scotland epitomize the beauty and remoteness of island life. And the most dramatic of all the Hebrides is Harris, where the legendary Harris Tweed is woven by local crofters, reflecting the strength, durability, and integrity of life on Harris. Harris has dramatic mountains and huge, pristine sandy ...
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Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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James Boswell
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tlis motions feemed to her to be intended for her amufementi and when he flopped, fhe fluttered and made a little infantine noife, and a kind of fignal for him to ...
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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D
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James Boswell, Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Detailed notes of their individual impressions are now published in this volume. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands records his observations on the Scottish landscape and architecture, and the traditions and character of the Scots ...
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Island Apart
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Beckwith
Island-born Kirsty MacLennan marries Ruari MacDonald in order to escape city life and a menial job in a guesthouse to return to her beloved homeland. As she rediscovers her roots and adapts to married life on the idyllic Westisle, there is only one thing standing in the way of her future happiness - the brooding presence of her brother-in-law who ...
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The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
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James Boswell
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Sea room
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Adam Nicolson
Adam Nicolson's father had answered a newspaper advertisement in the 1930s: "Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides. 600 acres. 500 ft basaltic cliffs. Puffins and seals. Cabin. Apply Col. Kenneth Macdonald, Portree, Skye." These were the Shiants, three of the loneliest of the British Isles, set in a dangerous sea, with no more than a stone ...
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Rhanna
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Christine Marion Fraser
On a bitter winter night in 1923, Fergus McKenzie loses his beloved wife in childbirth. Overcome by grief, he shuns the doctor, convinced he could have done more to save her. He also refuses to take notice of his daughter, Shona, until years later, when she falls in love with the doctor's son.
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Shine of Rainbows
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Beckwith
The story of Thomas, a shy, frail orphan boy who goes to live with foster parents on an isolated croft on an island in the Hebrides.
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The Highland omnibus
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Compton Mackenzie
This work contains three stories, "The Monarch of the Glen", "Whisky Galore" and "The Rival Monster". The National Union of Hikers disturb the grouse on the Glorious Twelfth, the SS Cabinet Minister strikes a reef off the Outer Hebrides and a flying saucer descends on the shores of Loch Ness.
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Uists & Barra
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Francis Thompson
This visitors' guide describes the culture, landscape, climate, flora and fauna of the islands of North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and Barra. Steeped in history ranging back to prehistoric times, their heritage is based on the Gaelic language spoken by over 90 per cent of the population.
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