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12 produkter
La Bibliothéque universelle des romans 1775-1789
Présentation, table analytique, et index
Av Angus Martin
Inbunden, 1985
1627 kr
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La Bibliothèque universelle des romans, 1775-1789, est une collection périodique de 224 volumes, publiée sur quelque quinze années, qui, à travers une série de résumés et de commentaires, entreprend de fournir une vue globale des narrations fictives en prose, telles que le dix-huitième siècle …
Kilkerran Graveyard Revisited
A Second Historical and Genealogical Tour
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2010
199 kr
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Graveyards fascinate many folk. Many inscriptions tell abbreviated stories, which a little research can expand. Some offer philosophical advice, but there are also hidden depths of history, biography and sociology. Kilkerran church, Kintyre, Scotland, first appears on record in the mid-thirteenth …
Kintyre Instructions
The 5th Duke of Argyll's Instructions to His Kintyre Chamberlain, 1785-1805
Av Eric R. Cregeen, Angus Martin
Häftad, 2011
235 kr
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The House of Argyll acquired its Kintyre lands in 1607 and sold them in 1956. During that period, the Campbells exerted a powerful influence in Kintyre, through politics, religion, and agrarian reform. The core of this book is the 5th Duke of Argyll's estate instructions to his Kintyre chamberlain, …
By Hill and Shore in South Kintyre
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2011
235 kr
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For 20 years, since 1991, historian and poet Angus Martin has been documenting in the Kintyre Magazine his observations and experiences while walking the hills and shores of his native Kintyre. This volume - an eclectic mix of natural history, history, archaeology, folklore, and much else, ranging …
Kintyre Places and Place-Names
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2013
311 kr
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Kintyre poet and historian Angus Martin's interest in placea'names extends back over 40 years. This meticulously researched exploration covers over 200 Gaelic place-name elements, plus many others of Norse, Scots and English origin. Over 1200 individual place-names are examined, from the well-known …
Kintyre: The Hidden Past
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2014
220 kr
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This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in Western Scotland, has become a classic since its original publication in 1984. It is reprinted here with a new Introduction by the author, a native of Kintyre who knows its geography intimately. The greater …
Kintyre Country Life
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2014
205 kr
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When it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth completed a trilogy on the history and culture of the author's native Kintyre. The material, from both oral and written sources, tells of everyday lives - working the …
Summer in Kintyre
Memories and Reflections
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2014
235 kr
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In the idyllic summer of 2013 in Kintyre, the author's journeys by bicycle and on foot were also 'a journey through landscapes of memory and emotion'. The story begins in the rugged south-west, at the Inneans and Largiebaan, and ends in the north-east, at a little loch near Tarbert, with people, …
Another Summer in Kintyre
Reflections on a 2014 Diary
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2015
227 kr
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While reflecting the style and character of its predecessor, 'A Summer in Kintyre', this new book is rich in differences. The narrative begins in April 2014 and ends in September, but real time is irrelevant, as the author dips frequently into history and prehistory, evoking people and events …
Third Summer in Kintyre
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2016
227 kr
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A Third Summer in Kintyre completes Angus Martin's trilogy of books about consecutive summers spent walking and cycling in Kintyre, exploring the history and natural history of the places he visits and documenting his own past. In this book, which covers the year 2015, he also looks back on his …
Campbeltown Whisky
An Encyclopaedia
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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Poet and historian Angus Martin was born in Campbeltown in 1952 and has lived there all his life. In this, his thirty-seventh book, he has employed his intimate knowledge of the history and families of his native community to produce the definitive account of the distillers, distilleries and …
West
Av Angus Martin
Häftad, 2019
164 kr
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This is an adventurous new collection of poems in which past companions are recalled, and the lives of the occupants of long-ruined farms imaginatively reconstructed, amid a spectacular landscape of hills, moors and cliffs. The fauna and flora of Kintyre's west coast come to life in affectionate …
