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  • Cover scan of The New Penguin Book Of Scottish Verse
    The New Penguin Book Of Scottish Verse
    - Paperback - Penguin
    This anthology offers a view over the history of Scottish poetry, extending from the 6th century to the end of the 20th. It features poetry in Gaelic, Latin and Old English in translation, mingling Highland and Lowland, the religious and the profane, and poems by kings and crofters.
  • Cover scan of The Nation Survey'd
    The Nation Survey'd: Essays On Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland As Depicted By Timothy Pont
    - Paperback - John Donald
    Around 1583 Timothy Pont undertook the task of mapping Scotland. Many of his documents were destroyed in a fire, but at least 77 have survived. This collection provides an insight into the landscape and architecture of 16th-century Scotland.
  • Cover scan of Neolithic Scotland
    Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth And Fire
    Gordon Noble - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    Providing an account of the Neolithic period in Scotland from its earliest traces to the transformation of Neolithic society in the Early Bronze Age 1500 years later, this book synthesizes and interprets excavations and research and brings together the evidence essential to understanding the first farming communities of Scotland.
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    Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth And Fire
    Gordon Noble - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
    Providing an account of the Neolithic period in Scotland from its earliest traces to the transformation of Neolithic society in the Early Bronze Age 1500 years later, this book synthesizes and interprets excavations and research and brings together the evidence essential to understanding the first farming communities of Scotland.
  • Cover scan of Night Song Of The Last Tram
    Night Song Of The Last Tram: A Glasgow Childhood
    Robert Douglas - Paperback - Hodder
    Growing up in Glasgow both during and after the Second World War, Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel - if sporadic - presence of his father, yet blessed by the love of his mother. In this book he recalls his upbringing, along with his memories of a city which has changed in many ways.
  • Cover scan of None Bolder
    None Bolder: The History Of The 51st Highland Division In The Second World War
    Richard Doherty - Hardback - Spellmount
    A history of probably the most famous British infantry division of the Second World War, formed from battalions of the Scottish Highland regiments, which fought in France, North Africa, Sicily, the Normandy landings and the subsequent campaign through France, into the Low Countries and finally into Germany.
  • Cover scan of The Nineties Collection
    The Nineties Collection: New Scottish Tunes In Traditional Style By Contemporary Scottish Composers
    - Paperback - Saltire Music
    This text contains over 200 new tunes which capture the spirit of revitalised enthusiasm for Scottish traditional music in the last decade of the 20th century.
  • Cover scan of The Noblest Work Of God
    The Noblest Work Of God
    - Paperback - Birlinn
    In the aftermath of the Eyemouth fishing disaster, when 189 men drowned in a devastating hurricane, fisherman John Lough was drawn to a new life in the US, enticed by his wife's cousin, John Craig, the son of a Berwickshire migrant who had made good the American dream. This volume combines the memoirs of John Lough and John Craig.
  • Cover scan of Notes From The North
    Notes From The North: Incorporating A Brief History Of The Scots And The English
    Emma Wood - Paperback - Luath
    This is a personal and perceptive confrontation of racial intolerance in Scotland and notions of Englishness and Scottishness.
  • Cover scan of Nairn In Darkness And Light
    Nairn In Darkness And Light
    David Thomson - Paperback - Vintage
    Set in the 1920s, David Thomson's sensitive autobiography of his formative years recreates the community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes.

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