From back cover: This Book is distinguished by a subtle interplay between the reality of Western life and the films and fictions which have been created from that reality. But while the author shows us the realities of Western life, she is sympathetic to the need for the myths that have surrounded our image of the West.... she provides an original perspective on many films, including those of Robert Aldrich, John Ford, Anthony Mann, Howard Hawks, and Sam Peckinpah, as well as on the writings of Zane Grey, Max Brand, and Luke Short.

There must be a Lone Ranger: The American West in film and in reality (McGraw Hill paperbacks)

Jenni Calder

McGraw=Hill

The Enterprising Scot: Scottish Adventure and Achievement

History

Royal Museum of Edinburgh

Scott (Literature in Perspective S.)

Literature & Fiction

JENNI CALDER ANGUS CALDER

Poetry

Evans Bros.

How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity.  How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its émigré experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and contradictions. Jenni Calder explores the effect of these experiences on the Scots imagination. Associated with displacement and disappearance, the 'wilderness' was also a source of adventure and redemption, of exploitation and spiritual regeneration, of freedom and restriction. An arena of greed, cruelty and cannibalism, of courage, generosity and mutual understanding, it brought out the best and the worst of humanity. Did the Scots who emigrated exchange one extreme for another, or did they discover a new idea of identity, freedom and landscape?

Lost in the Backwoods

Edinburgh University Press

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Scotland In Trust: The National Trust for Scotland

Europe

Richard Drew Publishing

No ordinary journey: John Rae, Arctic explorer, 1813-1893

Bryce Wilson

Ian Bunyan

Dale Idiens

National Museums Of Scotland

A sampler of the variety of material to be found in the new Museum of Scotland, emphasising some of the most fascinating aspects of these striking collections. Descriptions of galleries and displays, suggested routes and not to be missed features assure the reader a well informed visit.

Guide to the Museum of Scotland

Reference

NMS Publishing Limited

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