Return to Oasis: War Poems and Recollections from the Middle East, 1940-1946

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

This volume is a structured history of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland from prehistoric, pre-Christian times to the present. This lengthy timescale is divided into seven periods, each analyzed in terms of its political, economic and cultural conditions people, incident and event, lore and language were strongly marked and readily distinguishable as creatures of their own time. The history of the English-speaking peoples is well supplied with a succession of names of their ruling dynasties - Norman, Tudor, Jacobean, Georgian, Victorian and so on, from which we visualize specific period characteristics across a broad range of culture. Scottish history lacks similar convenient labels and Highland history more so, and their absence may leave us with little more than a vague knowledge and even misunderstandings of Highland history. On the basis of generalizations from detailed research, this book proposes a framework of periods to make sense of the sequence of events, the pattern of developments and social conditions, and the not inconsiderable achievements of art, craft and literature.

Periods in Highland History

History

Grant, I.F.

Europe

Tales of the Scottish Highlands

Warner, Gerald

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Tales of Ayrshire

Social Sciences

This book offers an autobiography in verse of Thomas Hardy. Although Hardy has always been better known as a novelist than a poet, it is as a poet that he wished to be remembered. From the 900 or so poems he wrote, Elaine Wilson has chosen 80 to illustrate aspects of his life from childhood through youth and maturity to old age. The poems are transcribed in calligraphy by Frederick Marns.

Thomas Hardy an Autobiography in Verse

Wilson, Elaine

Shaw, Howard

Even during his lifetime innumerable legends had grown up around Lieutenant General Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht (1750-1828), sole founder and first Colonel of the 79th Regiment, the Cameron highlanders. Disentangling fact from much cherished fiction has required patient and tactful research by the author, but the story it reveals is just as absorbi ng as any legend. Born in the Highlands shortly after the breaking of the clans, he left for America as a young man after killing his challenger in a duel. The oubreak of hostilities in the colonies found him part of a Loyalist intelligence network. He was taken prisoner, escaped and was recaptured several times before being repatriated. In London he married a young girl, enraging her father. He played a leading role in the repeal of the "Unclothing Act" which forbade the wearing of Highland dress, and then he turned his attention to raising a regiment of Highlanders for the British Army. He had the support of Dundas and Pitt but was secretly opposed by their enemies and a rival faction within Clan Cameron. Despite this, the regiment was raised and he served with it with distinction over the next 20 years in the long wars with France. His achievement is the more remarkable because he was neither a peer with vast estates from which to recruit nor a clan chief.

Indomitable Colonel

MacLean, Loraine

Oxford: Words & Watercolours

<p>BRO-DART COVER. 1991 Shepheard-Walwyn hardcover, M. A. Hicks. This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age and evokes what was distinctive and interesting about their personality and achievement.</p>

Who's Who in the Late Medieval England: 1272 - 1485 (Whos Who in British History Series)

Hicks, M.A.

Biographies & Memoirs

Famous Scots

Gordon, Ian Fellowes

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