Best of
Scotland

1993

Katie Morag's Island Stories: Four of Your Favourite Katie Morag Adventures


Mairi Hedderwick - 1993
    This collection includes Katie Morag Delivers the Mail, Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers, Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted, and Katie Morag and the Big Boy Cousins.

Fire of the North: The Life of St. Cuthbert


David Adam - 1993
    The amazing story of one of the great Celtic saints retold by the vicar of Holy Island.

Tapestry of the Boar


Nigel Tranter - 1993
    Action, chivalry and romance in the 12th century: the story of Hugh de Swinton and his thrilling life that encompassed fighting, farming and the foundation of Scotland's first hospital.

Speaking Our Language: The Complete Guide to Learning Gaelic For All Ages - Series 1, Part 1


Richard A.V. Cox - 1993
    The learner is provided with vocabulary and phrases useful in everyday situations with the course focusing on conversation. The aim is to learn in an informal, fun way, using pictures and games, and "Speaking Our Language" has been praised by many people.

The Broons 1994 (Bi-Annual)


D.C. Thomson & Company Limited - 1993
    

Highland Wilderness


Colin Prior - 1993
    

The Stewart Dynasty


Stewart Ross - 1993
    As medieval barons, monarchs and pretenders to the thrones they had lost, they featured prominently in the island's government, politics, arts, and society for over 600 years.It is a tale of epic proportions, brilliantly told, thick with ambition and folly, principle, bravery and bigotry. Over the course of seven centuries the dynasty rose from relative obscurity in early medieval Brittany, migrated to Britain, succeeded to the thrones of both Scotland and England, played a crucial role in the revolutionary events of the seventeenth century until, finally deserted by their political instincts and ability to maintain an unbroken family line, they tragically surrendered their glittering prizes and died out in impoverished continental exile.The author presents a long gallery of Stewarts - including James of the Fiery Face, James of the Iron Belt, Mary Queen of Scots, Charles the Martyr, the Merry Monarch, Old Mr Melancholy and Bonnie Prince Charlie - with scholarship, wit, sympathy, and vivid colour, giving new emphasis to their passionate sexuality and sinister propensity for depression. The result is a great story starring a startling collage of unforgettable personalities - in every way a worthy tribute to the remarkable House of Stewart.

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography


Frank McLynn - 1993
    Not for nothing was Robert Louis Stevenson the author of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.The greatest of Scottish novelists, Stevenson lived a life as extraordinary and as absorbing as his books. But it was a life tormented by an autocratic father, recurring illness, the prudery of the Victorian reading public and, most of all, the stresses imposed on him by his wife and stepchildren.This powerful new study is published to mark the centenery of Stevenson's death at the age of forty-four.

Among Mountains


Jim Crumley - 1993
    Telling of his lifetime among mountains, the author's themes are the wildlife, the vanished people, and the conservation of mountains for their own sake. Jim Crumley presents the argument that there is so much more to the experience of being among mountains than just mountaineering.

The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women


Elspeth King - 1993
    Existing histories are the histories of the men who made Glasgow great: the inventors, industrialists, shipbuilders, philosophers and men of medicine. Although every schoolchild knows the legends of St Mungo, no one knows the legend of his mother St Thenew.

Collins Guide to the Ruined Abbeys of England, Wales and Scotland


Henry Thorold - 1993
    

No King But Christ: the story of Donald Cargill


Maurice Grant - 1993