Verlag: Birlinn Ltd, 2004
ISBN 10: 1841582948 ISBN 13: 9781841582948
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Birlinn Ltd, 1997
ISBN 10: 1874744866 ISBN 13: 9781874744863
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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Birlinn General, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2011
ISBN 10: 1841589780 ISBN 13: 9781841589787
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the 'river-mouth bay' and the 'great water', part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands. From Borrodale (fort-dale) to Kilmory (Maelrubha?s chapel), from Druimindarroch (oak-tree ridge) to Eireagoraidh (shieling-corrie), the place-names echo the story of the landscape. This harsh environment was at the heart of the old Macruari and Clanranald estate; this was where Bonnie Prince Charlie first landed and last departed, where fugitive Jacobites skulked and languished, where the great poet Alexander Macdonald breathed his last lines, and whence the sail-ships Jane, Lucy and British Queen carried so many hopes to the New World. Where, despite clearance and emigration, potato blight and deer forest, poverty and hardship, a new road and railway were eventually driven, a fishing industry flourished, and where communities survived. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Birlinn General, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 1999
ISBN 10: 1841580198 ISBN 13: 9781841580197
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Knoydart - the northern edge of the "Rough Bounds" is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking settlers who only reckoned it worth three ouncelands - compared to five for the island of Eigg. Its warlike but impoverished inhabitants caused endless problems for their neighbours during the 17th century before becoming notorious in the 18th century under the leadership of Coll of Barrisdale. His protection racket has bequeathed the word "blackmail" to the English language and he was notorious across Scotland. For the Jacobites, as well, Knoydart was a fertile recruiting ground. In the 18th and 19th centuries the area suffered large scale emigration, partly as a result of the brutal clearances of 1853. A further long century of decline followed, during which sheep and then deer were preferred to people. In 1948 discontent swelled again and it became the scene of the famous land-raid by the "Seven men from Knoydart". It has changed hands more often in the last 150 years than in the previous 700 years. The land continues to lie at the heart of the Knoydart problem and the book attempts to place events in their larger historical context. This is the struggle of a community to preserve itself against the harshness of the environment and the cynical exploitation of man. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh
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Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A few small stains.
Verlag: Birlinn Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 1841581542 ISBN 13: 9781841581545
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Birlinn Limited, 2000
ISBN 10: 1841580139 ISBN 13: 9781841580135
Anbieter: HPB-Movies, Dallas, TX, USA
paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Verlag: Origin, 2018
ISBN 10: 1912476126 ISBN 13: 9781912476121
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Birlinn, 2011
ISBN 10: 1841589578 ISBN 13: 9781841589572
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55.
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Verlag: Origin, 2018
ISBN 10: 1912476223 ISBN 13: 9781912476220
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Birlinn, 2011
ISBN 10: 1780270003 ISBN 13: 9781780270005
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Birlinn, 2004
ISBN 10: 1841582948 ISBN 13: 9781841582948
Anbieter: Lion Books PBFA, Kidderminster, WORCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Softcover Edition. Small sprinkling of dust spottng to margin side of top text block edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 356 pages.
Verlag: Birlinn Limited Edinburgh, 1998
Anbieter: Grampian Books PBFA, Est. 1990, ELLON, ABDNS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First softcover edition. xvi + 237pp; appendix; glossary; footnotes; bibliography; index; 2 maps; 8 figures; 15 plates. No inscriptions. Fine. [for nearly a millenium the West Highland galley, or birlinn, a Gaelic adaptation of a Norse design, guaranteed the independence of the Western Isles and was the chief mode of transport].
Verlag: Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1998
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Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Paperback. Physically C Format (8½" x 5¼") (0.5 kg); (xvi) 237pp; Index; Bibliography; First in this, paperback, edition. Contains: Black & white photographs; Maps; Tables; Genealogical tables; Glossary; ISBN: 1-841-58013-9 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #183145|| Condition: Very Good. Pages lightly age-tanned.
Verlag: Birlinn, Edinburgh 1998., 1998
Anbieter: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1st edition. 8vo. xvi + 237pp. B/w. illustrations, 2 maps. Pages lightly browned. Original boards. Pictorial blue d/w. lettered in black and white. ISBN 0874744866 US$9.
Verlag: Birlinn, 1998
ISBN 10: 1874744866 ISBN 13: 9781874744863
Anbieter: Mr Mac Books (Ranald McDonald) P.B.F.A., Thornhill, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardback ISBN 1874744866 First edition. Clean and unmarked book which looks hardly read. Dustwrapper in a removeable clearview cover. Illustrated 237 pages For nearly a millenium, the West Highland Galley was the vehicle for island life. A Gaelic adaptation of a Norse design, the ships guaranteed the independence of the islands for hundreds of years. This book is a long overdue assessment of these important and enigmatic craft. Wt 0.55 Kg Very Good (Very Good).
Verlag: Birlinn, Edinburgh, 1998
Anbieter: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st ed. A clean, bright copy.
Verlag: Birlinn, 1998. 9781874744863, 1997
ISBN 10: 1874744866 ISBN 13: 9781874744863
Anbieter: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. xvi + 237, illus with b&w plates and figures (pages lightly tanned; no inscriptions).
Verlag: MALLAIG: MALLAIG HERITAGE CENTRE, 1997
Anbieter: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, Vereinigtes Königreich
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 8vo, pp, 22, illustrations, pictorial card covers, loosely inserted is an article about Morar.
Verlag: Tuckwell Press Ltd., 2002
ISBN 10: 1862321248 ISBN 13: 9781862321243
Anbieter: Gene Sperry Books, Quincy, MA, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Rixson, Denis., Tuckwell Press, Ltd. (UK), 2002, c2002, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), fine, 170 pp with bibliography & index, B&W photographic & map illus., 8vo, ISBN: 1862321248, 'An area so rugged and desolate it was known as the Highlands of the Highlands', Scotland; Scottish History; scarce.
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