In this powerful and provocative book, Scottish writer and campaigner Alastair McIntosh shows how it is still possible for individuals and communities to take on the might of corporate power and emerge victorious. As a founder of the Isle of Eigg Trust, McIntosh helped the beleaguered residents of Eigg to become the first Scottish community ever to clear their laird from his own estate. And plans to turn a majestic Hebridean mountain into a superquarry were overturned after McIntosh persuaded a Native American warrior chief to visit the Isle of Harris and testify at the government inquiry. This extraordinary book weaves together theology, mythology, economics, ecology, history, poetics and politics as the author journeys towards a radical new philosophy of community, spirit and place. His daring and imaginative responses to the destruction of the natural world make Soil and Soul an uplifting, inspirational and often richly humorous read.

    In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them. Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, but everybody has to find their own way of coping. For some it's affairs, for others it's the bottle, and for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination.

    Promised in marriage to Edwynn, the village smith, Arietta is content to spend her days providing for herself and others. But the return of several long-lost village women, including her older sister, Gwyn, throws Arietta's orderly life into chaos. The women arrive with their Viking husbands and families, and one Norseman in particular challenges every assumption Arietta has made about life. Wulfric, the unmarried brother of Gwyn's husband, cannot resist Arietta's independent spirit and innocence. But he questions why she would follow a God he perceives as weak. Nor is he about to submit to her God just to win her favor. Will Arietta persist in marrying Edwynn, even though he loves another? And will love be enough to tame Wulfric's Viking pride?

    They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years. Isolation Shepherd is the moving story of those years. Whether in stalking or gathering sheep for shearing or droving cattle over mountain passes, navigating the loch, in haymaking, finding firewood or cutting the peats, the ever present background splendidly portrayed is the grandeur of the Highlands—sometimes benign and magnificent, at others, harsh and relentless. Iain Thomson's book vividly captures the splendour of one of Scotland's most awesome landscapes, and depicts the numerous incidents that shaped the family's life there before the area was flooded as part of a huge hydro-electric project. This book is the epitaph for a vanished land and a vanished life.

    Referring to the unobtainable 1866 edition of this work, C. H. Spurgeon wrote: 'A first-class exposition of Jonah. No one who has it will need any other. It is not a small treatise, as most of the Jonah books are; but it contains 460 pages, all rich with good matter. It is out of print, and ought to be republished. What are publishers at to let such a book slip out of the market?' Hugh Martin (1822-85) was one of the most outstanding men in that 'galaxy of gifted and devoted ministers of the Gospels' in Scotland during the second half of last century. After a distinguished university career, in which he obtained the highest mathematical honours, he entered the ministry and held pastorates at Panbride and Edinburgh before he was forced to retire in 1865 because of ill-health. 'All his writings', in the opinion of John Murray, 'exhibit an unexcelled warmth and fervour. No one could scale higher heights of sanctified eloquence.' His other principal works were The Shadow of Calvary, Christ's Presence in the Gospel History, The Atonement, and Simon Peter.

    The material draws on many traditions, including the Celtic, and aims to help us to be fully present to God in our neighbour, in the political and social activity of the world around us and in the very centre and soul of our being. This new edition has been extensively revised and rearranged and includes much new material developed by the resident group on Iona.

    They were a part of everyday life, as real to people as the sunrise, and as incontrovertible as the existence of God. While fairy belief was only a fragment of a much larger complex, the implications of studying this belief tradition are potentially vast, revealing some understanding of the worldview of the people of past centuries. This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonising attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end of the seventeenth century, as well as their place in ballads and in Scottish literature.

    A bit too far removed for the taste of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, the Royal Dornoch Golf Club has never hosted a British Open, but that has hardly diminished its mystique or its renown. In an influential piece for The New Yorker in 1964, Herbert Warren Wind wrote, "It is the most natural course in the world. No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch." If any town in the world deserves to be described as "the village of golf," it's Dornoch. You can take the legendary links away from St. Andrews, and you'll still have a charming and beautiful university town with great historic significance; take the links away from Dornoch and it would be as little noted or known as its neighbors Golspie, Tain, and Brora. (The town is forty miles north of Inverness, generally thought of as the northernmost outpost of civilization in Scotland.) The game has been played in Dornoch for some four hundred years. Its native son Donald Ross brought the style of the Dornoch links to America, where his legendary, classic courses include Pinehurst #2, Seminole, and Oak Hill. Lorne Rubenstein decided to spend a summer in Dornoch to clear the muddle from his golfing mind and to rediscover the natural charms of the game he loves. But in the Highlands he found far more than bracing air and challenging greens. He found a people shaped by the harshness of the land and the difficulty of drawing a living from it, and still haunted by a historic wrong inflicted on their ancestors nearly two centuries before. Rubenstein met many people of great thoughtfulness and spirit, eager to share their worldviews, their life stories, and a wee dram or two. And as he explored the empty, rugged landscape, he came to understand the ways in which the thorny, quarrelsome qualities of the game of golf reflect the values, character, and history of the people who brought it into the world. A Season in Dornoch is both the story of one man's immersion in the game of golf and an exploration of the world from which it emerged. Part travelogue, part portraiture, part good old-fashioned tale of matches played and friendships made, it takes us on an unforgettable journey to a marvelous, moody, mystical place.

    It includes Columba, Macbeth, and William Wallace; Burns Clubs, curling, and shinty; clans, Clearances and Covenanters. It covers Scotland from Orkney and Shetland to Galloway, and Scots abroad from Canada to Russia to New Zealand.

    The author sets out on his motorbike on the trail of Bonnie Prince Charlie from England to Scotland and the Isle of Skye, the locations shown with maps and drawings.

    No previous knowledge of the language is required.What makes Colloquial Scottish Gaelic your best choice for learning the language?emphasis on up-to-date, conversational language clear explanations of how the language works helpful grammar notes comprehensive vocabulary lists (Scottish Gaelic-English and English-Scottish Gaelic) lively illustrations throughoutThis rewarding course will give you confidence in using Scottish Gaelic in a wide range of situations.Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately in two CDs or comes included in the great value Colloquial pack. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material complements the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

    Providing a first-hand account of the dangers he and his crew faced and the obstacles that they had to overcome, it is an enthralling description of the historic first voyage of "Scott of the Antarctic" to the south polar regions.

    The book ranges widely from the galloglass who fought in Ireland to artists who painted in the Netherlands; from impoverished students to merchants and monasteries wealthy from the export of wool.

    

    They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humor, and compassion of their vision. MacCaig's memorable celebrations of the physical world and the tragic-comic note of many of his short lyrics contrast strikingly with Morgan's poems on the modern world and city life. Liz Lochhead writes with an alert and sensitive eye on personal relationships and women's experience of them. The book provides an invaluable introduction to modern Scottish poetry and to the poets who are arguably its greatest practitioners.

    This Lonely Planet guide to Scotland shows readers how to discover the whole Scottish experience on two feet, including city strolls, coastal ambles and mountain hikes.

    it's May, 1752. On a hill track near Ballachulish in the mountainous West Highlands of Scotland, a rider is shot dead by a hidden gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell. He's the government appointed manager of the Arsheil estate of nearby Duror. When killed, Campbell is on his way to evict Duror's farming tenants and to replace them with his own relatives. Despite a Scotland-wide manhunt, the man the local authorities say is Colin Campbell's killer escapes abroad. But politicians in London and Edinburgh insist someone must pay for Campbell's death. The sacrificial victim is James Stewart who, from his Duror home, has been organising resistance to the dead man's planned evictions. James is arrested, a show trial follows and James is hanged close to the murder scene. His body is left suspended there for several years a grim warning to anyone else thinking of challenging the state responsible for James Stewart's execution.

    His textile enterprise grew and achieved nationwide importance, but it also produced dramatic consequences and unforeseen developments for him and his partners.

    During the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I England was involved in a constant series of conflicts with Ireland and Scotland, and frequently sent expeditions to the territories now known as Belgium and the Netherlands to keep the Spanish and French at bay.

    Generators break down and roads quickly become blocked, but the couple have a series of adventures with a fascinating mix of local farmers, terrified tourists, an African president, and their two babies, Yasmin and Zeki.The Moon's our Nearest Neighbour is a heart-warming, amusing account of a life lived in the picturesque beauty of highland Scotland; of the ferocious weather and the spectacularly starry skies; and, most of all, of the tremendous strength of spirit in coming to terms with the hardships and isolation of a new lifestyle.

    In this radical reassessment, Charles McKean demonstrates that the demands of a cultured nation participating in European ideas were satisfied by a flowering of domestic architecture that reflected its status and growing sophistication.

    All this beauty, however, comes at a price - waters off the Scottish coast are some of the most dangerous in the world. In a country almost totally dependent on the sea for its livelihood, lighthouses have played a significant part in its history. This lavishly illustrated book is a tour of thirty-one of the most magnificent lighthouses built in Scotland over the past 200 years. These beautiful and technically efficient lighthouses were constructed to protect ships from Scotland's rocky, windswept coastline. Most of the structures described here are in excellent condition and still lighting the coast of Scotland today. This guide contains: history and descriptions for each lighthouse; location and geography of the land where each beacon stands; details about the people who built the lights and care for them today; directions to each light; and breathtaking color photographs. Scottish Lighthouses is an excellent memento of Scotland's lighthouse legacy, for visitors and lighthouse aficionados alike. (8 1/2 X 10 3/4, 96 pages, color photos, map)

    This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1897 edition by Hodder and Stoughton, London.

    Featuring over 160 of Scotland's most famous and scenic views, this volume portrays the diversity of the Scottish landscape in all its varied glories.

    This is a collection of essays and documents dealing with Robert the Bruce's Scottish expedition to Ireland in 1315.