History
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History Of Skye
£25Third edition of Alexander Nicolson's popular history of the Isle of Skye
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Highland Homespun
£8.99In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, Highland Homespun recounts a year of farming life in the West Highlands, from the burning of the land and ploughing in March, through planting and sowing in April to haymaking and harvesting in September.
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A Unique and Precious Culture – The Changing Face of South Uist and Eriskay
£20A Unique and Precious Culture – The Changing Face of South Uist and Eriskay is a selection of 100 magnificent Black and White photographs, taken by the late Dr Kenneth Robertson in the 1950s and 60s, bring vividly to live what is now a bygone age in South Uist and Eriskay.
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The Decline and Fall of St Kilda
£12This thought-prooking volume is based on the very successful conference held in Great Bernera, Lewis in August 2005 to mark the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of St Kilda.
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Destination St Kilda
£19.99In 1885 Aberdeen photographers George Washington Wilson and Norman MacLeod travelled through the Western Isles of Scotland to St Kilda. They took many photographs along the way and their collection of pictures, `From Oban to Skye' and `The Outer Hebrides' were seen as lantern slides throughout the UK and around the world.
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A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695 – A Voyage to St Kilda
£9.99A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695 : A Voyage to St Kilda. It is three hundred years since Martin Martin's great journey around the Western Isles, Orkneys and Shetlands. The first and one of the greatest of all travellers in Scotland.
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The Distilleries of Campbeltown
£15Campbeltown was once the whisky capital of the world with 29 distilleries operating simultaneously in 1835. How had this remote fishing port and royal burgh become the epicentre of Scotland's greatest export?
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Celtic Scotland (Historic Scotland)
£15.99Who were the Celts? Where did they come from? Did the tribes of Iron Age Scotland really belong to a 'European community' of Celts? What did it mean to be Celtic? Celtic Scotland tries to answer some of these questions.
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Celtic Names – The Meaning, History and Mythology
£7.99Beautifully presented, this book is a glossary of Celtic names, which are rapidly growing in popularity. It provides the meaning behind each name as well as its cultural origins.
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Celtic Saints in their Landscape
£18.99Throughout the Celtic world, in Britain, Ireland and France, the legacy of the Celtic saints remains visible.
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Iona – The Living Memory of a Crofting Community
£16.99The Hebridean island of Iona has been the focus of intense outside interest for over fourteen hundred years, from the time of St Columba's monastery in the sixth century through to the transfer of its renowned monuments into the care of Historic Scotland in the year 2000. Yet the people who lived and worked alongside its sacred sites have been largely overshadowed until now.
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Jura Language and Landscape
£15Jura Language and Landscape is the first ever landscape photography book about the Isle of Jura with traditional stories translated from the original Gaelic!
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Lost Argyll
£10.99In 'Lost Argyll', Marian Pallister looks not only at the lost architectural heritage of Argyll but also at its lost industries, ferries, roads, bridges, and archaeological monuments.
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Local Heroes
£9.99Local Heroes relates the extraordinary evolution of Loch Fyne Oysters, the highly successful and environmentally pioneering seafood company from the west coast of Scotland.
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The Lighthouse Stevensons
£9.99The Lighthouse Stevensons is an exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst’s epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds.
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The Last Laird of Coll
£6.99Kenneth Stewart is the last of the old Lairds of Coll, one of the loveliest of all the Hebridean islands.
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Life of St Columba
£11.99Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling families in Ireland at a time of immense expansion for the Irish Church.
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Lewis in History and Legend
£10.99The Isle of Lewis, the largest and most populous of the islands of the Outer Hebrides, has had an eventful history which stretches back thousands of years.
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Lochs and Lights – The West Coast of Mainland Scotland
£9.95Lochs and Lights is one of a series of attractive tours of coastlines using views from the air.
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Last of the Free – A History of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
£8.99Written by award-winning Scottish historian James Hunter, this groundbreaking and definitive account reveals how the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have evolved from a centre of European significance to a Scottish outpost.
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The Land Where I Belong – Fifty Years in Focus in the Highlands and Islands
£20The Land Where I Belong – Fifty Years in Focus in the Highlands and Islands reproduces some of the best images from the collection, and is an enticing glimpse into a body of work of enormous aesthetic and historical interest.
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Colonsay One of the Hebrides
£14.95A facsimile re-print of the 1910 edition describing the climate on Colonsay, geological formation, plants – their uses and their local and Gaelic names. Also legends, ruins and place-names. The author was Head Gardener at Colonsay and a scholar of local history and of plant life.
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Oighreachd Ar Sinnsearan – The Changing Face of South Uist and Eriskay
£20The Changing Face of South Uist and Eriskay
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The British Confederate – Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, c1607-1661
£25The British Confederate interplays roles of the Marquess of Argyll, as clan chief, Scottish magnate and influential British statesman, make him a worthy counterpoint to Cromwell.