This poetry collection includes verse ranging from the tear-jerking Green Eye of the Yellow God to the rarely-printed, bawdy Eskimo Nell. Much borrowed and rarely returned, this is a very popular book for reading aloud in very good company, preferably after a dram or twa. You are guaranteed a warm welcome if you arrive at a gathering with this little volume in your pocket.

Poems to be Read Aloud: A Victorian Drawing Room Entertainment

Literature & Fiction

Atkinson, Tom

Poetry

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The Scot and His Oats

Lockhart, G. W.

In its short lifetime of 100 years, the crofting system of landholding has had profound effects upon Scotland. In this book, the author presents vivid descriptions of crofting life, past and present, in a deeply-researched social history.

Crofting Years

History

Thompson, Francis

Europe

"Rarely has any collection of short stories had such a range as this. Satire, slap-stick comedy, pathos, realism, fantasy, murder are all here, and all told in fine, concise prose. We expect that from Alan Bold, one of Scotland's outstanding poets and critics."

The Edge of the Wood (The Blew Blanket Library)

Alan Bold

Short Stories & Anthologies

Inveraray, Oban, Kintyre, Glencoe, Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Appin, Islay - all the glories of Argyll are described in this book. From Dumbarton to Campletown and north to Loch Etive there is a great wealth of beauty unmatched in Scotland. It is a quiet and lonely land, a land still unspoiled, a land of history and legend, a land ofy unsurpassed glor. Tom Atkinson describes it all, writing with deep insight into the land he loves. There could be no better guide to its beauties and history. Once Atkinson has taken you there, these lands can never feel lonely.

The West Highlands: The Lonely Lands

Science & Math

Tom Atkinson

Earth Sciences

The Dirty Business (The Blew Blanket Library)

Tom Scott

The last survivor of those who were born and raised on the Scottish island of Rum before WWI tells his story. Factors and Schoolmasters, midges and poaching, deer, ducks, and MacBrayne's Steamers: here social history and personal anecdote create a record of a way of life gone not long ago but already almost forgotten. This is the story the gentry couldn't tell.

Bare Feet and Tackety Boots

Biographies & Memoirs

Cameron, Archie

Historical

Bob Smith went into the pit when he was 14 years old, and spent his whole working life in the pits of Scotland until injury forced his retirement. This is his story, but it is also the story of Scottish coalmining from the early 1960s to the present day.

Seven Steps in the Dark

Bob Smith

Service went from bank clerk to cowboy to become the first million-selling poet. The early forerunner of Kerouac's beat generation, Service wrote for those who wouldn't be caught dead reading poetry.

On the Trail of Robert Service

Arts & Literature

Francis Thompson clarifies areas of belief that once were treated as mere superstition and folklore in this study of the Highlands, its peoples and their understanding of forces outwith consensus science and the laws of nature.

The Supernatural Highlands

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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