books by Birlinn Ltd     books:     Birlinn Ltd      Para Handy Neil Munro Birlinn Ltd, 2007 Life on the West Coast shipping 'tred' The outstandingly inimitable Para Handy, with his crew of mischevious miscreants, Dan MacPhail, The Tar, Dougie and Sunny Jim sail from port to port on the western seaboard of Scotland in their old puffer 'The Vital Spark'. Carrying a bewildering assortment of ...             The Surnames of Scotland George F. Black Birlinn Ltd, 1998             A Strange and Wild Place Sandra Macpherson Birlinn Ltd, 2005             Raasay Norma Macleod Birlinn Ltd, 2005 Raasay forms part of the parish of Portree, Skye. This work is a history of Raasay and traces the island's story from the medieval period into the 20th century, showing that, far from being a carbon copy of Skye, Raasay has a history of its own, forged by its own unique attributes. Although there are traces of human habitation dating from the last ...             The Killer Angels Michael Shaara Birlinn Ltd, 2006 Pivotal Three Days. I was always interested in Americas' Civil War and had read some excellent books on the subject such as "A Brotherhood of Valor", "Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg", "Battle Cry of Freedom" but "The Killer Angels" is a very special one. Late Michael Shaara has ...             A Very Civil People: Hebridean Folk History and Tradition John Lorne Campbell Birlinn Ltd, 1999             Old and New World Highland Bagpiping John G. Gibson Birlinn Ltd, 2005             Mull: The Island and Its People Jo Currie Birlinn Ltd, 2001 This is the story of a Hebridean isle as told through the account of the people who lived there between 1600 and 1875. It includes the stories of the landlords, tacksmen, cottars and others who actually lived on or visted the island of Mull. It is the story of a Scottish island as it has never been told before.             A Gift from the Gallowgate Doris Davidson Birlinn Ltd, 2005             The House of Elrig Gavin Maxwell Birlinn Ltd, 2003             The Glens of Silence: The Landscapes of the Scottish Clearances David Paterson, Craig David Birlinn Ltd, 2004 Perfect Title This amazing picture-and-story book tells the harsh and poignant story of the Highland Clearances, a catastrophic event during which thousands of tenant-farmers were forcibly evicted from their ancestral homelands so that the cash-strapped landlords could treble their ...             Stanley Baxter's Bedside Book of Glasgow Humour Stanley Baxter, Alex Mitchell Birlinn Ltd, 2003 Glasgow humour has always been characterised by a scant regard for caution and reserve, and its extrovert and often surreal nature. No one exemplifies all these aspects better than Stanley Baxter, Glasgow's best known and greatest comic genius. In this book, Stanley Baxter looks back to the great days of Glasgow comedy. In a series of brilliantly ...             Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World James Buchan Birlinn Ltd, 2007 A Fascinating Work! For those who have had their fair share of reading about the Scottish Enlightenment, you may think this is just another work written in a similar vein. However,the beauty of this work is that it places so many of the great Scotish characters - Hume, Smith, Blair, ...             The Complete Patter Michael Munro, John Byrne Birlinn Ltd, 2007 Goof Fun! This book is a newer version of the one I had someone in Glasgow send me years ago. I bought it for my Uncle's birthday as he was born there. I thought I'd get him his own. It's got a lot of newer terminology for the Glaswegian langauge/slang that I have heard about ...             Puir Labourers and Busy Husbandmen: The Medieval Countryside of Scotland 100-1600 (The making of Scotland) Piers Dixon, Historic Scotland Birlinn Ltd, 2002 This title explores the new way of life brought to the Scottish medieval countryside by feudalism, the threat of revolution, and the spread of Benedictine monasticism. It focuses on the day-to-day activities of farming, peat extraction, woodland management, milling, malting, baking and brewing.          products you might be interested in search for books clearances, countryside, gallowgate, husbandmen, labourers, landscapes      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: The Phoenicians