“A marvellous book which is both readable and scholarly” The core of this work is an examination in depth of six Celtic languages: Irish, Gaelic, Manx (all correctly called Gaelic by their speakers), and Welsh, Cornish and Breton (three cousins of the first group). It is the core because the rest of the work grows out of it; and its consequently central position is intended to mark the peak between flowering and decline.   Encapsulating the core is an account of Celtic origins, and the story of its origins, and the story of the formation, vicissitudes, and dissolution of the six regions where different forms of Celtic are or were spoken. The decline in the number of Celtic speakers is traced in detail; its causes are examined one by one; the struggle for survival is described wherever it is being carried on; and finally the question is asked: “What is meant by revival?”  The requiem for Manx in these pages is included because its loss is doubly painful for having happened in our own day. It is time that languages were regarded as part of the ecological scene, and the end of one of them felt as deeply as the extinction of a species.   It is hoped that this work will leave the reader in that frame of mind: willing to halt the further decline of the Celtic languages.  Part of the Oleander Classics series, this 1980 title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology. This is in order to keep important works from the Press’s 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by this and other books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.

Celtic: A Comparative Study of the Six Celtic Languages, Irish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, Breton Seen Against the Background of Their History, Literature and Destiny

Reference

Douglas Bartlett Gregor

Foreign Language Study & Reference

The Oleander Press

The Finnish Explorer Yrjö Aukusti Wallin (whose name is perhaps more familiar to us as Georg August or George Augustus) made two historic journeys into the Arabian Peninsula in the 1840s. D.G. Hogarth, paying tribute to Wallin in his Penetration of Arabia, writes:  “One recognises in him, perhaps for the first time in the history of Arabian discovery, a scientific explorer of the best modern type, thoroughly prepared, and determined to leave nothing for the man who might come after him. His assumption of an eastern character seems to have been perfect; but his observation of the scenery and society about him was in no way inspired by it; and the minute accuracy of his report, as attested by the comparison of the narratives of later travellers, argues that he took most copious notes without let or hindrance, save only in the fanatic company of the Persian pilgrims to the Holy Cities”.  Wallin’s narratives, Travels in Arabia (1845 and 1848), are here reprinted in their entirety by kind permission of the Royal Geographical Society, in whose Journal they originally appeared. They are preceeded by important contributions by W.R. Mead of University College, London, on the connections between Wallin and England, where his writings on Arabia found a welcome; and by Mrs M. Trautz, on the background to Wallin’s years of exploration.  This is the first reprint of Wallin’s writings, and constitutes in its way as signal an appreciation of the great Finnish explorer’s work as the original publication of his absorbing pioneer journeys more than a century ago.  Part of the Oleander Classics series, this title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology in order to keep this and other important works from the Press’s 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.

Travels in Arabia: (1845 and 1848)

Travel

Wallin, G. A.

Middle East

“A marvellous book which is both readable and scholarly” The core of this work is an examination in depth of six Celtic languages: Irish, Gaelic, Manx (all correctly called Gaelic by their speakers), and Welsh, Cornish and Breton (three cousins of the first group). It is the core because the rest of the work grows out of it; and its consequently central position is intended to mark the peak between flowering and decline. Encapsulating the core is an account of Celtic origins, and the story of its origins, and the story of the formation, vicissitudes, and dissolution of the six regions where different forms of Celtic are or were spoken. The decline in the number of Celtic speakers is traced in detail; its causes are examined one by one; the struggle for survival is described wherever it is being carried on; and finally the question is asked: “What is meant by revival?” The requiem for Manx in these pages is included because its loss is doubly painful for having happened in our own day. It is time that languages were regarded as part of the ecological scene, and the end of one of them felt as deeply as the extinction of a species. It is hoped that this work will leave the reader in that frame of mind: willing to halt the further decline of the Celtic languages. Part of the Oleander Classics series, this 1980 title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology. This is in order to keep important works from the Press’s 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by this and other books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.

Celtic: A Comparative Study

Gregor, D. B.

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Gotobed, Jabez

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

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Humor & Entertainment

Graves, Ian D.

Puzzles & Games

Wall and Roof Climbing (Climbing Cambridge)

Sports & Outdoors

Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey

Miscellaneous

"Tripoli is a place to be lived in: it can only be appreciated to the full after long and detailed explorations. The visitor who walks quickly, purposefully, down Shar'a 24 December completely misses the piquant contrasts between the shady Islamic School of Arts and Crafts, of the Turkish period, tiny Italian shops selling groceries and fruit, a Libyan Bookshop, an Indian merchant, a vast American oil company offices. Nothing clashes: it appears rather that an imaginative internationalism has found a home to proclaim itself." Wrote Philip Ward, an oil company librarian six years in Libya. This was the first detailed guide in any language to the city of Tripoli. Here is a poet's evocation of the sights and sounds, the pleasures and surprises of the capital of Libya, where the leading foreign language is English and the currency was sterling. The book is illustrated with engravings, with old and modern photographs to show Tripoli as it was. He gives a snapshot of the city as it was in late 1960s, and what a beautiful picture it is. Part of the Oleander Classics series, this 1969 title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology. This is in order to keep important works from the Press's 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by this and other books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.

Tripoli: Portrait of a City

Ward, Philip

Africa

The debris of Latin litter the former territory of the Western Roman Empire as celestial bodies lie scattered throughout the solar system. History and politics have promoted some of these fragments to national tongues, the vehicles of government and the carriers of great literatures: these are the planets of the Romance system. But it has its asteroids too, the forms assumed by Latin in the narrow areas which never extended their boundaries: the dialects. The name must not mislead us: they too are languages , and man’s creative instinct being what it is, they have their literatures. One such is presented in this book, both to linguists, interested in language as a mechanism; and to phoneticians, on the lookout for new sounds; and to men of letters, curious about literary work wherever it is found; and to poets, always able to learn from fresh poetic voices (even if these are muffled in translation): and finally even to tourists, hitherto unaware that in passing eastward over the River Livenza they have been crossing a frontier.  D.B. Gregor was a professional teacher of classics and Romance languages. This work sits alongside his Romagnol: Language and Literature (9780902675124) and Romontsch: Language and Literature (9780900891397).  Part of the Oleander Classics series, this title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology. This is done in order to keep important works from the Press’s 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by this and other books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.

Friulan: Language and Literature

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Arabic Key Words (Oleander Key Words)

Cook, Samya

Quitregard, David

CLASSIC EARLY HORROR IN THE STYLE OF MR JAMES BY A FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE The Stoneground Ghost Tales are an atmospheric collection of unsettling supernatural stories, first published in 1912 by E.G. Swain who had been chaplain of King's College, Cambridge, and was a colleague and friend of M.R. James. These charmingly ghoulish tales, written by Swain as a tribute to his friend, have been favourites of ghost story fans for many years. The nine tales, each narrated in the Jamesian manner, are, however, rather milder in tone and regularly incorporate a playful humour not often found in James' work. The stories are set in and around Stanground, on the edge of the Fens, where Swain was vicar for many years and recount the adventures of the genial, ghost-hunting rector Rev. Roland Batchel. Who is the alluring young woman that appears, tearfully pleading, in Mr Batchel's study – only to disappear the very next minute, with no clue as to her purpose? Why is a previously unblemished photograph now displaying a man “with an indescribably horrible, suffering face”? Is it possible that a mirror could have “the power of retaining indefinitely the light which fell upon it”? And if so, what horrors might one see? And what might be the bloody repercussions of ignoring the warning, “MOVE NOT THIS STAKE” even after 200 years? The answers to these and more eerie mysteries are to be found in Oleander's reprint of this classic horror text, The Stoneground Ghost Tales which, having been out of print for many years, are now available once more. OTHER RARE, CLASSIC HORROR LITERATURE FROM OLEANDER RANDALLS ROUND by Eleanor Scott (Cut & Paste 9780900891953 to search)  THE HOLE OF THE PIT by Adrian Ross (Cut & Paste 9780900891861 to search) TEDIOUS BRIEF TALES OF GRANTA AND GRAMARYE by INGULPHUS (Cut & Paste 9780906672860 to search)

The Stoneground Ghost Tales

Literature & Fiction

Swain, E.G.

Genre Fiction

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