The essential guide to an area that has witnessed some of the most dramatic incidents in Scottish history. Each walk features contemporary accounts and anecdotes to help bring these events to life.

St. Andrews & Fife Walks

Travel

Brown, C.

Wiggins, S.

Europe

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It wasn't the volcano's increasingly violent fiery explosions that drove New Yorkers Nancy and Richard out of their beloved Montserrat. It wasn't the swift, incinerating pyroclastic flows that killed every living thing in their path. It wasn't even the hot rocks hurtling onto the roof of their house. It was the ash. It was the thick blanket of ash that covered everything inches deep, it was the film that grimed every surface, it was the powder that crept through every crack, squeezed into each sealed plastic bag, burrowed down to the skin of each bedraggled furry creature. The misery and endangered health of their pets played a large part in the couple's decision to leave their home. But there were no planes flying and no boats willing to turn Noah's Ark, until the skipper of the M V Abiding Love came to the rescue. Or did he?

And the Sirens Still Wail (Macmillan Caribbean Writers)

Nancy Burke

This book has been written not for specialists but for nature-lovers who are visiting Cuba and are interested in identifying the island s flowering herbaceous plants, vines, bushes and trees, whether they be in cities, on the beach, or in the island s woods, savannas or mountains. In this book, the reader will find over a hundred flowering plants. In each case there is an explanatory text and the book also includes a glossary of botanical terms, although efforts have been made to avoid verbal technicalities.

Flowers of Cuba (Macmillan Caribbean Natural History)

Science & Math

Angela Leiva

Nature & Ecology

A very striking and curious story, founded on fact, of the West Indies of the earlty nineteenth century. Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances. She takes a violent fancy to Rutherford, who is also embarrassed by the attentions of his half-caste housekeeper, Millicent. His housekeeper is urging him, with some sucess, to fall in with West Indian habits, when Mrs Palmer arrives. Millicent defies her and threatens her with the powers of Takoo, an Obeah man. Mrs Palmer, herself skilled in Obeah magic, puts a spell on the girl, which Takoo's rites, shattered by the white woman's stronger magic, are powerless to remove.

The White Witch of Rosehall

Herbert G. de Lisser

Welsh Names contains a selection of Welsh first names from Welsh history and romance and a selection of Welsh surnames and their derivations. The renaissance of the Welsh language in the latter part of the twentieth century has seen many parents in Wales give their children Welsh names. These names are part of a heritage that extends beyond the emergence of the Welsh language in the sixth century back through the early centuries of the British Christian Age to the prehistoric world of Celtic myth. Also included in Welsh Names is a list of the nicknames of one village, recalled by the author's grandfather, Jonathan Thomas, and his friend, Johnny Morgan, a leader of the miners in his day. These nicknames reflect the heyday of a century of mining history and a way of life that has gone the way of the collieries themselves.

Welsh Names

D. Geraint Lewis

Katie Bairdie had a coo, Black and white aboot the mou. Wasna that a dainty coo? Dance, Katie Bairdie. Itchy Coo's first publication specifically for babies and very young children, Katie's Coo is a delightful board book. Illustrated in full colour throughout, the book contains some much-loved traditional Scots rhymes, along with a few that are less well known. Parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, big brothers and sisters, they'll all enjoy singing or chanting the words in Katie's Coo to babies and toddlers. And the bairns will love the combination of Scots words and sounds with the bright and simple illustrations by award-winning artist Karen Sutherland (Animal ABC, A Moose in the Hoose, Eck the Bee). Rhymes featured include favourites like 'The Three Craws', 'Katie Bairdie', 'Wee Willie Winkie' and 'Ally Bally Bee'. Developed in consultation with Craigmillar Books for Babies and the Scottish Book Trust, Katie's Coo is a fun introduction for young children to easy Scots rhymes.

Katie's Coo

J (Comp) Robertson

Children's Books

Katie is looking for her moose and all her other animal friends. But where are they? Lift the flaps and find out. Sometimes they're in quite surprising places!The simple Scots words and colorful pictures will make this book a favorite with bairns and parents alike, especially at bedtime!

Katie's Moose

James Robertson

Matthew Fitt

This book presents a nostalgic account of life growing up in wartime Scotland. Born in Dundee in 1938, Maureen Reynolds grew up in wartime Scotland, a young girl surrounded by adult concerns - the endless queuing for rations that never seemed to stretch quite far enough, the blackouts and air raids - and as she came of age, a whole generation seemed to suddenly do the same, with the rise of the Teddy Boy and rock and roll. A memoir written with the grace and lucidity of a novel, "Voices in the Street" chronicles a life of typical proportions with all the heartache and hope that entails, and reminds us that the most commonplace stories, properly told, can give a greater insight into a time and place than any of the more exceptional. With great candour and earnestness, Maureen Reynolds' reminiscences of growing up with her wise, kind Grandad, of lumpy porridge, of tramcars and of broth night, of finding her love and then seeing him borrowed for the sake of National Service, will strike a chord with all those who see their own memories reflected there, and for everyone else "Voices in the Street" provides an intricate, caring portrait of a life and of a generation.

Voices in the Street: Growing Up in Dundee

Maureen Reynolds

Biographies & Memoirs

The Sunday Girls

Towards a Dark Horizon

Romance

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