Author: John Garvey
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781848761070
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
William Daniell's Isle of Skye and Raasay brings together 17 aquatint prints and 10 pencil sketches from the Hebridean islands of Eigg, Rum, Skye and Raasay, and photographs showing these views as they are today.
William Daniell's Isle of Skye and Raasay
Stepping Westward
Author: Nigel Leask
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198850026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198850026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
Whiskies Galore
Author: Ian Buxton
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857903519
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique, and remote location captures the imagination; their highly distinctive flavours are often imitated but seldom bettered. There have been few books on island whisky and none written in recent years. But Whiskies Galore is not your average whisky book. It is not simply a catalogue of distilleries, but a story of discovery and adventure. Join Ian Buxton on a personal journey across Scotland's islands, where he learns to fish with high explosives, ends up hurling his dinner into the sea, and comes face to face with a basking shark. Combining an expert's knowledge of whisky with a travel writer's fondness for anecdote, and with a keen description of place, he provides a special treat for all who love the islands' magical drams.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857903519
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique, and remote location captures the imagination; their highly distinctive flavours are often imitated but seldom bettered. There have been few books on island whisky and none written in recent years. But Whiskies Galore is not your average whisky book. It is not simply a catalogue of distilleries, but a story of discovery and adventure. Join Ian Buxton on a personal journey across Scotland's islands, where he learns to fish with high explosives, ends up hurling his dinner into the sea, and comes face to face with a basking shark. Combining an expert's knowledge of whisky with a travel writer's fondness for anecdote, and with a keen description of place, he provides a special treat for all who love the islands' magical drams.
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Author: Greg Clingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556255
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556255
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history.
Country Life Illustrated
Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin Working in Great Britain ...: D-H
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Raasay
Author: Richard Sharpe
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A Voyage Round Great-Britain, Undertaken in the Summer of 1813 ... with a Series of Views ... Engraved by William Daniell
Second Series of Eton School Lists
Author: Henry Edward Chetwynd-Stapylton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A Voyage Round Great Britain: Land's End to the Clyde
Author: David Addey
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN: 9781873376973
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This illustrated volume records the next stages of Addey's journey from Land's End to Conway and Liverpool to the Clyde - and again contrasts his work with Daniell's engravings and descriptions.
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN: 9781873376973
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This illustrated volume records the next stages of Addey's journey from Land's End to Conway and Liverpool to the Clyde - and again contrasts his work with Daniell's engravings and descriptions.