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Leading From The Front: My Story
Gerald Ronson - Paperback - Mainstream
Gerald Ronson reveals how he fought his way to the top of the business ladder, lost everything twice, then clawed his way back up again.
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£8.49
Harpoon At A Venture
Gavin Maxwell - Paperback - Birlinn
A shark fishery based on the tiny island of Soay was the beginning of Gavin Maxwell's enduring preoccupation with the West Coast of Scotland. This, his first book, tells the whole story.
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£16.99
Under A Yellow Sky: A Tale Of The Sea And Coming Of Age
Simon J. Hall - Paperback - Whittles
This is an incisive and colourful commentary of men living and working together in extreme circumstances and a coming-of-age book like no other. It paints a canvas of life aboard a Merchant Navy ship in the 1970s.
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£12.74
The Tweed To The Northern Isles: The Fishing Industry Through Time
Mike Smylie - Paperback - Amberley
The first six volumes covering the fishing industry of the UK and Ireland. Mike Smylie takes us on a tour of Scotland's east coast from the Tweed to the Northern Isles, taking us to harbours that you could once walk over on the hundreds of fishing boats to coastal inlets where the herring once shoaled.
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Grim Ferry Tales
Roy N. Pedersen - Paperback - Birlinn
The current Scottish population includes over 100,000 island dwellers, so it is therefore logical that ferries play a hugely important role in contemporary Scottish life. Yet current levels of ferry services are far from adequate, leading to isolation and economic hardship for many remote communities. Drawing on best practice at home and overseas, this book sets out how Scottish ferry services can be revolutionised to be, once again, among the best in the world.
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Stillhouse Stories, Tunroom Tales
- Paperback - Angels' Share
In this informative and entertaining series of interviews leading whisky writer Gavin D. Smith reveals the workings of the Scotch whisky industry from characters who have lived and worked in the business of making Scotch. Some are nostalgic, harkening back to a former era when the Health & Safety mandarins did not exist, while other are contemporary and reveal how things work today. The 12 interviews are accompanied by black and white photographs of the participants along with archival illustrations not published before.
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£95.00
The Edinburgh History Of The Book In Scotland
- Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
This volume focuses on the Union and its impact on the book trade, the entrepreneurship of the booksellers, the domestic and international question of Scottishness, and the regional nature of the Scottish book trade.
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Scotland's Lost Industries
Michael Meighan - Paperback - Amberley
Michael Meighan takes us on a journey into a time when Scotland was an industrial powerhouse, making goods for the Empire and Commonwealth as well as exporting to the world.
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Collieries, Communities And The Miners' Strike In Scotland, 1984-85
Jim Phillips - Hardback - Manchester University Press
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Seven Steps In The Dark
Bob Smith - Paperback - Luath
Smith went into the pit when he was 14 years old, and spent his whole working life in the pits of Scotland until injury forced his retirement. This is his story, but it is also the story of the last 40 years of Scottish coalmining.
Leading From The Front: My Story
Harpoon At A Venture
Under A Yellow Sky: A Tale Of The Sea And Coming Of Age
The Tweed To The Northern Isles: The Fishing Industry Through Time
Stillhouse Stories, Tunroom Tales
The Edinburgh History Of The Book In Scotland
Add to BasketScotland's Lost Industries
Add to BasketCollieries, Communities And The Miners' Strike In Scotland, 1984-85
