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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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Hills Is Lonely
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Beckwith
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1959
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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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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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Rope in Case
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Beckwith
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Lightly poached
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Lillian Beckwith
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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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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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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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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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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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Holy Terror in the Hebrides: A Dorothy Martin Mystery
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Jeanne M Dams
Expat-American Dorothy Martin takes a vacation from renovations on her British home to travel to the Scottish island of Iona, home of several religious tourist locales. But soon Dorothy is eyewitness to the unfortunate and suspicious demise of one of her companions, and she jumps in to solve the case.
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The Journey to the Western Islands Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Samuel Johnson, Peter Levi (Editor), James Boswell
Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him. The account in Boswell's diary, published after Johnson's death as The ...
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Island Apart
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Beckwith
A story of love and loss, and the struggle for existence in the desolate Hebridian islands. Kirsty MacLennan marries Ruari MacDonald in order to escape city life and return to her idyllic homeland. Only one thing stands in the way of happiness - the silent, brooding presence of her brother-in-law.
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John G Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides
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John Gibson Paton
This is the moving autobiography of the heroic Scot missionary, John G. Paton, who introduced the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the cannibalistic inhabitants of the New Hebrides in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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James Boswell
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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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Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Professor James Boswell
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck and 1st Baronet (1740-1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. He is best known as Samuel Johnson's biographer, and is also known for the detailed and ...
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Stranger on Rhanna
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Christine Marion Fraser
The island of Rhanna attracted visitors for different reasons - for the beauty of the landscape, the grandeur of the sea and cliffs, the warmth of the community - and for others it was somewhere to find peace. Rachel Jodl came back looking for the security of home. By the author of "King's Close".
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Following the Sun: A Bicycle Pilgrimage from Andalusia to the Hebrides
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John Hanson Mitchell
Mitchell spins the story of his entrancing, sun-drenched bicycle journey fromthe beaches of Southern Spain to solar temples in the Outer Hebrides.
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Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, was one of England's greatest literary figures: a poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and a critic of English literature. He was also a great wit and prose stylist, well known for his aphorisms. Between 1745 and 1755, Johnson wrote perhaps his best-known work, A Dictionary ...
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Cannibal-Land: Adventures with a Camera in the New Hebrides
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Martin Johnson
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
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The Inner Hebrides and their legends
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Otta F. Swire
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