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Literature of the Gaelic Landscape - Song, Poem and Tale (Paperback)
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Literature of the Gaelic Landscape - Song, Poem and Tale (Paperback)
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List price R594
Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
You Save R56 (9%)
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From the comfort of an armchair and with the aid of this new book,
the reader can travel to the Breadalbane and Argyll of Duncan Ban
Macintyre; the Skye and Raasay of Sorley Maclean; and the Caithness
and Sutherland of Neil M. Gunn. Photographs, maps and place-names
linked to key passages in the texts will immerse readers in the
landscapes which songs, poems and tales have described and
enlivened over the ages.For those who wish to brave the weather,
the insects, the sheer drops, the morasses and the vast spaces, the
book can be used as a field guide taking the same walks followed by
the author. The touch, smell and landmarks of song, poem and tale
can be experienced.The author has immersed himself further in the
Gaelic literature of place so that readers, with book in hand, can
make the past come alive and appreciate the extracts about a place
and what has happened there. As an adult, Neil M. Gunn saw himself
as a boy, sitting on a slab in the middle of the river cracking
hazelnuts with a stone. Through the eyes of Duncan Ban Macintyre
see Ben Dobhrain and the journey of the deer to the holy spring,
from the vantage point of Patrick's stone. On Dun Cana sit at the
centre of the swirl of place-names in Sorley Maclean's Hallaig.
Journey around the north and east coasts of Caithness and
Sutherland in the wake of the White Heather and the Seafoam, in the
Silver Darlings.
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