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Morvern - A Highland Parish (Paperback)
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Morvern - A Highland Parish (Paperback)
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Loot Price R397
Discovery Miles 3 970
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There must be very few corners left in the British Isles against
whose picturesque and historical background so many dramas and epic
tales have been played, but yet which so little has been
documented. Such a place is Morvern - a roughly triangular-shaped
peninsula lying west of Fort William and at the foot of the Great
Glen. Immortalised by James MacPherson (as the home of Ossian, the
Heroic Fingalian warrior), Tennyson and Scott, it is now a remote
and little known part of what was Argyll lost in the anonymity of
the Highland region. Morvern: A Highland Parish (first published as
Reminiscences of a Highland Parish) was so popular from its first
appearance in 1867 that it went through many editions. The value of
Norman Macleod's book today lies in its encapsulation of the past,
its humour, its evocation of the scenery of Morvern and
surroundings, and its specific appreciation of the remarkable
natural intelligence and concern for humanity. It speaks of
Morvern, but describes a whole breed of West Highlanders. Even more
importantly it clarifies the Highlander's own view of the Clan, a
very necessary exercise at a time when notions of what a Clan is
are romantically distanced from reality.
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