Rum: A Landscape Without FiguresBirlinn, 2001 - 302 pagini This title reveals the human story of the island of Rum, both in the tragedy of the clearance and in the interlude of the Bullogh period when the folly at Kinloch was built. It also covers the history of the island stretching back to the mesolithic period and the earliest settlements in Scotland. |
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Pagina 82
... boat was hauled up dry and we made our minds to remain week ; by no means an unlikely event . But we should not have been starved , while there was Highlander who had a potato . We were in at least as much danger of being devoured with ...
... boat was hauled up dry and we made our minds to remain week ; by no means an unlikely event . But we should not have been starved , while there was Highlander who had a potato . We were in at least as much danger of being devoured with ...
Pagina 179
... boats coming into the bay and pleaded that the only other boat was that used by the shepherds to get at the shore . With the reduced state of the population there are not enough qualified men to handle this boat in a gale . In the event ...
... boats coming into the bay and pleaded that the only other boat was that used by the shepherds to get at the shore . With the reduced state of the population there are not enough qualified men to handle this boat in a gale . In the event ...
Pagina 202
... boat , is often not only inconvenient but impossible . About three hours sailing having brought us off this place , as we came round the point we saw the boat from here waiting for us , and when it came alongside we found that Norman ...
... boat , is often not only inconvenient but impossible . About three hours sailing having brought us off this place , as we came round the point we saw the boat from here waiting for us , and when it came alongside we found that Norman ...
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Wild Heaths and Rude Rocks | 1 |
As Complete an Islander | 35 |
Piety and Virtue | 53 |
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Alexander Allan Maclean Angus Archie Archie Cameron became bloodstone boat Cameron Campbell Canna Cape Breton Cathrina cattle century Church Clan Clanranald Clearances cottage daughter Dibidil died Donald Maclean Duart eagle eldest emigration Factor farm fishing Gaelic grazing Guirdil Hallival Harris Hebridean Hebrides Hector Highlands hills Hugh Miller Iain inhabitants island of Rum Isle of Rum James John Bullough John Maclean John MacQuarrie Kenneth Kilmory Kinloch Castle Kinloch House Lachlan Lady Bullough laird land later lived Loch Scresort Long Loch Lord Salisbury Lordship Macdonald MacDougall MacInnes MacKay Mackenzie Maclean of Coll Macleod mainland Marion Marquess married Matheson minister Muck Mull Neil Oban Papadil parish PLATE ponies population red deer rock Rum's Salisbury's Scotland sheep shepherds shieling shore Sir George Skye Small Isles stags steamer stone tenants Tobermory took visited Waugh widow wife winter young