This title encapsulates the complex history of Clyde shipbuilding in one volume. Beginning in the 17th century, the book discusses the earliest shipyards and methods of building on the river, moves through the age of clippers and the great age of sail to the beginnings of iron shipbuilding and Thomas Wilson's trailblazing "Vulcan". The yards of the Clyde soon became the cradle of steam navigation and the ships built there spread the fame and prowess of Scottish engineering round the world. By the end of the 19th century, and well into the 20th, the River Clyde was providing the sinews of empire in the ships that carried Britain's trade, the liners that carried her people and the warships that defended her vast and far-flung territories. The book is packed with stories about famous yards and significant individuals and an exhaustive appendix of Clyde shipyards.

The Song of the Clyde : A History of Clyde Shipbuilding

Business & Money

Walker, Fred

Economics

Birlinn

This work records the oral history, folklore and folk-life of emigrants from the Outer Hebrides to Quebec in the 19th century. It opens with the historical background before telling oral history as remembered and experienced by the emigrants' descendants, telling of land clearing, "homesteading", farming, lumbering, bridge building and all the other tasks required to build a new community in the wilderness. Gaelic-speaking presbyterians, the group kept their language for the first three generations and still retain their religion to this day, as well as the tradition of the "taigh ceilidh". For more than a century people in the Outer Hebrides have been asking what happened to those who left. This work answers much of that question.

Oatmeal and the Catechism : Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec

Politics & Social Sciences

Bennett, Margaret

Social Sciences

In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I. This work provides a narrative and analysis which stresses the importance of political motivation, rather than religious conflict. The Covenanters fought for a Scottish parliament free from royal control and for a Presbyterian church.

The Scottish Revolution 1637-44

History

David Stevenson

World

Written in 1824, James Hogg’s masterpiece is a brilliant portrayal of the power of evil. Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The reader, while recognising the stranger as the Devil, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel’s structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the imagination. This is the only complete edition of Hogg’s Confessions, since it was first published. All subsequent editions, until now, have altered the text or omitted both the engraved Frontispiece and the (fictional) Dedication. In his notes to the Canongate edition, David Groves discusses the significance of both, in terms of the novels structures and ironies.

Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Canongate Classic)

Literature & Fiction

Hogg, James

Genre Fiction

Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War

In the sequel to his father's "The Killer Angels", Jeff Shaara tells the story of the American Civil War, from the aftermath of Gettysburg to the final surrender of Robert E. Lee and the army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House.

The Last Full Measure

JEFF SHAARA

This book is a story of magical moments caught in the quiet and intuitive eye of award-winning photographer, Liz Hanson. These photographs are beautiful, elegant and above all truthful, taken with an unfussy clarity which succeeds in refracting the spirit of this place through the lens of a camera. To accompany Liz's photographs, historian Alistair Moffat has written an essay on the history of the Borders, his heartland in every sense.

Heartland: Images of Scottish Borders

Arts & Photography

Moffat, Alistair

Photography & Video

Most of us move too quickly through the landscape and townscape, hurrying about our daily business, looking where we are going, too seldom noticing where we are. East Lothian deserves much more than a traveller's glance. It is one of the most gently striking parts of Scotland, its long vistas fill the eye, its volcanic rocks recall ancient drama and its beautiful fields roll down from the Lammermuirs to the blue of the sea and far horizon.The photographer, Liz Hanson, has often stopped to look at East Lothian, every part of it, and over many years her camera has captured all its seasons and many of its unique atmospheres. Punctuating Liz Hanson's record of the essential nature of East Lothian is a short history by Alistair Moffat. The story turns out to be as dramatic and beguiling as the landscapes and townscapes. Together the words and pictures speak quietly but clearly of a beautiful place.

East Lothian

Fife is a kingdom of the senses, of atmospheres, a place where the ghosts of an immense past flit through the shadows, where the weather changes all in a moment from hazy sunshine to the sudden sear of biting wind. It is a photographer's paradise. Liz Hanson has photographed all of Fife in this beautiful book, from the mining and manufacturing towns of the south-west, to the villages of south Tayside, through the green heart of the Howe, to the familiar beauties of the East Neuk. In more than 200 stunning images she captures the glories of the kingdom. Alongside the images, historian Alistair Moffat tells Fife's story, and it glitters with incident, from the Romans and the Kindred Hounds, to the Gaelic-speaking kings in the west at Dunfermline, and the oldest university and the greatest cathedral in the east. Fife is a place like no other - open these pages to find out why.

Fife: Images by Liz Hanson and a Short History by Alistair Moffat

From the summer glints off its domes and high towers, the flags fluttering on the Castle Esplanade and the blaze of flowers in Princes Street Gardens down to the shaded canyons of the Cowgate, Edinburgh is a city of dazzling contrasts. With patience and an unerring eye for the essential, Liz Hanson has photographed much of that intensity. These elegant and truthful pictures record the transit of all the seasons all over the great city.&nbsp;The passage of time has been traced by Alistair Moffat in a short history of Edinburgh; the perfect accompaniment to the photographs. From Celtic warriors on the Castle Rock to the misfiring genius of the New Town and the arrival of the Scottish Parliament, it is a quirky, unlikely and sweeping story of the capital city of Scotland.&nbsp;

Edinburgh

Reports From Beyond: A Journey Through Life to Remote Places

Travel

Richardson, Patrick

Travel Writing

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