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In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad—"Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres. . . . Puffins and seals. Apply."—and thus found the Shiants With a name meaning "holy or enchanted islands," the Shiants for millennia were a haven for those seeking solitude, but their rich, sometimes violent history of human habitation includes much more. When he was twenty-one, Nicolson inherited this almost indescribably beautiful property: a landscape, soaked in centuries-old tales of restless ghosts and Bronze Age gold, that cradles the heritage of a once-vibrant world of farmers and fishermen.

In Sea Room, Nicolson describes and relives his love affair with the three tiny islands and their strange and colorful history in passionate, keenly precise prose—sharing with us the greatest gift an island bestows on its inhabitants: a deep engagement with the natural world.

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The Outer Hebrides of Scotland epitomize the evocative beauty and remoteness of island life. The most dramatic of all the Hebrides is Harris, a tiny island formed from the oldest rocks on earth, a breathtaking landscape of soaring mountains, wild lunarlike moors, and vast Caribbean-hued beaches. This is where local crofters weave the legendary Harris Tweed—a hardy cloth reflecting the strength, durability, and integrity of the life there.

In Seasons on Harris, David Yeadon, "one of our best travel writers" (The Bloomsbury Review), captures, through elegant words and line drawings, life on Harris—the people, their folkways and humor, and their centuries-old Norse and Celtic traditions of crofting and fishing. Here Gaelic is still spoken in its purest form, music and poetry ceilidh evenings flourish in the local pubs, and Sabbath Sundays are observed with Calvinistic strictness. Yeadon's book makes us care deeply about these proud islanders, their folklore, their history, their challenges, and the imperiled future of their traditional island life and beloved tweed.

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"Paul Strand is one of those photographers who have established not just a body of work but a way of seeing. His prints encourage the eye to take an apparently endless journey " --The Times Literary Supplement In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife Hazel spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. Tir a'Mhurain reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in this wild terrain. Whether they are of rocks and sea or a grinning shepherd boy, scudding clouds hanging over seaside houses or the wrinkled face of an old lady, Strand's images capture the essence and complexity of a singular place. This new edition of Tir a'Mhurain, which includes rare images never before published, is a true masterpiece of photography. In the spirit of the Aperture editions of Strand's classic works La France de Profil (2001) and Un Paese (1997), this volume celebrates the beauty of everyday life..
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Vacation can be murder...

A peaceful vacation on the charming Scottish island of Iona sounds idyllic to sometime sleuth Dorothy Martin. But Dorothy soon finds that while Iona is charming, her vacation won't be peaceful. Thrown in with a bickering American church tour, she tries to keep her distance. But she can't stay away from murder.

Everybody believes the unpleasant American's fatal fall from a cliff is accidental. Everybody, that is, except Dorothy. The only witness, she saw a small clue the police dismiss, one that makes her believe the death was not an accident. With the police closing the case, Dorothy feels bound to investigate. But it's a choice she may regret....
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JOHN G PATON, XlISSIONARY TO THE NEW HEBRIDES . Btt ButobiograpIp EDITED BY HIS BROTHER NEW YORK ROBERT CARTER Sr BROTHERS, 530 BROADWAY JOHN G. PATON, MISSIONARY TO THE NEW HEBRIDES. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY I . 2 m0. 1 . so. OPINIONS OF THE BRITISH. PRESS. Christian.-A more fascinating and thrilling bit of missionary history has seldom been given to the public. C h r i s t i a n Leader.-Intensely interesting indeed, often quite fascinating. B a p t i s t Magazine. - Let the people who tell us that the romance of missions is passed, read this manly and thrilling narrative. . . . No fiction can exercise a stronger spell than the story of this brave Cameronian missionarys life. B r i t i s h Weekly.-This is a book far beyond our praise. It will take its place with the classics of missions.-with the Lives of Brainerd and hlartyn, and the other records which will endure as long as Christ is preached. Great as has been the missionary work accomplished by the author, we believe it will be found in the end that his greatest work has been the writing of this volume. It is a book which cannot be read without indescribable emotion. . . . It must surely, now and in days to come, kindle in niany souls something of the flriters own lofty and fervent love. R1ol. e than any argument it will silence the faithless clamor a ainstn issions a nd no one, Christian or sceptic, will peruse it without feeling that there is amongst us still at least one truly Apostolic man. Scotsman.-The story of hlr. Patons years of residence among the Tannese, amid many perils and great discoungements, is quite as fascinating in some parts as many a romance. The author, indeed, seems to have passed through dangers and difficulties which it would be hard to believe, were the veracity of the writer not beyond question. . . . An autobiography recording the life and work of a missionary in some respects not unlike his great prototype - David Livingstone. Dundee A d v e r t i s e r . - Amongst the records of missionary life recently pub lished there are few more interesting than the autobiography of John G. Paton. . . . The scenes of bloodshed and rapine which he witnessed, and the hairbreadth escapes from imminent dangers which he made, read like pages from a romance, but are detailed with a precision of circumstance which proves their reality. S c o t t i s h L e a d e r . - He has a story to tell that is well worth hearing, and that at not a few stages will compare handsomely with most books of adventure. P r e s b y t e r i a n C h u r c h m a n . - One of the best books we have ever read. . . . A story of adventlire thrilling as any penned by Kider Haggard, much more elevating, and improving and true. R e g i o n s Beyond. - hlr. Paton has told his story with such simplicity - letting out both heart and mind in the telling-that sympathy is as much drawn out in reading his pages as in listening to the tones of his attractive voice. It is hard to lay the book down before turning its last leaf. B i b l e C h r i s t i a n Magazine. - A more fascinating, inspiring story we have never read. Methodist Times.- Ire recommend it to all oiir missionary societies as a most convinciilg testimony to the value of Gospel work among the heathen. L e e d s Mercury. - Simplicity and godly sincerity are stamped on every page. - ROBERT CARTER Ss BROTIIERS. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. BY ARTHUR T. PIERSON, D. D. LYE is omnipotent. Wherever true passion for souls burns, there we may find a new Mount of - Transfiguration where the earthly takes on the cornplexion of the heavenly. This book presents an example of the power of such love and holy enthusiasm, alike in one of the great cities of Scotland and in the isles of the sea....
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An entrancing, sun-drenched bicycle journey, from the beaches of southern Spain to solar temples in the Outer Hebrides

In this great feast of armchair travel, John Hanson Mitchell tells of his fifteen-hundred-mile ride on a trusty old Peugeot bicycle from the port of Cadiz to just below the Arctic Circle. He follows the European spring up through southern Spain, the wine and oyster country near Bordeaux, to Versailles (the palace of the "Sun King"), Wordsworth's Lake District, precipitous Scottish highlands, and finally to a Druid temple on the island of Lewis in the Hebrides, a place where Midsummer is celebrated in pagan majesty as the near-midnight sun dips and then quickly rises over the horizon. In true John Mitchell fashion this journey is interspersed with myth, natural history, and ritual, all revolving around the lure and lore of the sun, culturally and historically. The journey is as delicious as it is fascinating, with an appeal for all those who look south in February and are drawn to dunes, picnics under castle walls, spring flowers, terraced vineyards, Moorish outposts, magic and celebrations. In short, to everything under the sun.

A Merloyd Lawrence Book.
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