Barnett, T Ratcliffe; Adam, Robert M (ills) The Road to Rannoch and the Summer Isles , Edinburgh: John Grant, 1946New and revised edition. Blue cloth, gilt titling to spine, map endpapers, 22 plates, 2 drawings, glossary Pagination: xv, 184. Contents: The Summer Isles, white wings on sapphire seas,; The Island of Lewis, the story of the Fife settlers; The Rock of Brissay, a robber’s stronghold in the Atlantic; Mull of the Mountains, a gangrel’s paradise; The Bad Step, a Jacobite hidie hole in the Orkneys); The Coming of Spring on the Braes of Perthshire; The Heart of the Highlands, in praise of petrol; Glen Lyon, the longest glen in Scotland; Macgregor’s leap, a legend of Glen Lyon; The Oldest Weapon in the World, an archer’s reverie; The Voyage of the Kelpie, a canoeing cruise in Scotland; An Old Highland House, and its romantic story; The Road to Rannoch and the Appin mystery; The Bounds of Black Mount, an idyll of the red deer; The Loch of the Vanished Races, a rune of Rannoch; The Black Wood of Rannoch; The Land’s End of Scotland, death on Dunaverty and peace in Kilcolmkil; The Island of Mary Rose; The Lure of Wayside Wells, winter dreams of summer days; Wandering Willies, memories of the road; Winter Beauty, fires of death among the hills; A King of the Road, the last of the minstrels. Book: spine a little dulled, head/tail a little bumped, pages untrimmed, VG, Jacket: rear cover and flap only loosely inserted (Book ref. 2888 ) £ 13.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, www.oldscottishbooks.com , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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