Skye by Derek Cooper

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Skye by Derek Cooper

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Summary

This gazetteer to Skye includes a history of the island and reflects on the changing language of the islanders. It explains both the origins and pronunciation of Skye place names, and features 40 extracts from writers, travellers, poets and painters on the changes that have taken place there.

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Skye by Derek Cooper

Part guide, part gazetteer, part anthology, Cooper presents a comprehensive picture of the west coast of Scotland's magical Isle of Skye, past and present, in this new and updated edition of his classic and authoritative bestseller. He recollects the days when the sea was the great highway to Skye and the island lay at the center of the Gaelic world. St. Columba landed on it in 585. Cooper includes some forty pieces from writers, travellers, politicians, mountaineers, poets, painters, and tourists, including Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Sir Walter Scott.

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ISBN 13 9781874744375
ISBN 10 1874744378
Title Skye
Author Derek Cooper
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Birlinn General
Year published 2001-01-01
Number of pages 290
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