State of the Controversy Betwixt United and Separate Parliaments (Saltire Pamphlets, New Series, No. 3)

Andrew Fletcher

Literature & Fiction

Saltire Society

Barbour: The Bruce

Barbour, John

Poetry

The Scottish legal tradition

Michael C. Meston

Legal Theory & Systems

TALES FRAE THE ODYSSEY O HOMERThe story of Odysseus's fantastic adventures has often been translated into English, but seldom if ever into guid braid Scots: this is the task superlatively performed by William Neill who presents eight episodes ranging from the supernatural violence of Scylla and Charybdis to the sweetness of the beautiful witch Circe.When the victorious hero, Odysseus set out on his return journey from the Trojan war, he little thought that a chance encounter with a cannibal giant in which he put out the giant's single eye would earn him the hatred of the gods, but the giant's father, who happened to be Poseidon, god of the earthquake and the ocean, subjected Odysseus to vindictive persecution: Odysseus barely survived,and it was ten years before he reached home.The richness of the Scots language well matches the depth and nervous power of Homer's imagination, and this translation may stand equal to the work of Gavin Douglas and Robert Henryson in our own heroic past. The text is beautifully illustrated by Barbara Robertson

Tales frae the Odyssey o Homer (Scots Edition)

HOMER

Thomas Carlyle

A biographical study of the great Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle, and his transformation from the Sage of Ecclefechan to the Sage of Chelsea. It tells of family and intellectual influences on Carlyle's ethical outlook, and the interaction between him and the strong personality of his wife.

Biographies & Memoirs

Ian Campbell

Arts & Literature

Andrew Fletcher and the Treaty of Union

Scott, Paul Henderson

Highland warrior: Alasdair MacColla and the civil wars

David Stevenson

Tracing Burns's creative journey from its first unselfconscious beginnings to the heights of Tam o' Shanter and The Scots Musical Museum, this book sets the poet in his context as the heir of a literary tradition stretching from Dunbar and Henryson to Ramsay and Ferguson. It also illuminates the social setting of Calvinism and poverty in which Burns grew up in the west of Scotland.

Robert Burns: The poet

DAICHES, David

Rob Donn, an 18th-century oral Gaelic poet, practised his art in Strathnaver. In the first edition of this book, the late Dr Ian Grimble used Donn's life and work to demonstrate the vitality of the Gaelic way of life and literature before the Highland Clearances. For this updated and expanded edition, all of Donn's poems are presented in the original Gaelic together with rigorously revised English translations which reflect current standard orthography.

The world of Rob Donn

GRIMBLE, Ian

Scottish Roots: A step-by-step guide for ancestor-hunters

Scottish roots: A step-by-step guide for ancestor-hunters

James, Alwyn

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