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| Author | : John Buchan |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2022-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Island of Sheep" by John Buchan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
| Author | : John Buchan |
| Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2015-04-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1473373646 |
The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.
| Author | : T. H. Clutton-Brock |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2004-03-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1107320380 |
Soay Sheep synthesises one of the most detailed studies of demography and dynamics in a naturally regulated population of mammals. Unlike most other large mammals, the Soay sheep population of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago show persistent oscillations, sometimes increasing or declining by more than 60% in a year. Soay Sheep explores the causes of these oscillations and their consequences for selection on genetic and phenotypic variation within the population, drawing on studies over nearly twenty years of the life-histories and reproductive careers of many individuals. Covering population dynamics, demography and their effects on selection, energetic and resource limitations on the interaction between sheep and parasites, and the adaptive significance of their reproductive characteristics, it provides unique insights into the regulation of other herbivore populations and the effects of environmental change on selection and adaptation. It will be essential reading for vertebrate ecologists, demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists.
| Author | : Debbie Zawinski |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Knitting |
| ISBN | : 9780942018387 |
"In the Footsteps of Sheep details the completion of a mission the author, a Welsh-born Scot, set for herself: to travel and camp throughout Scotland, find cast off tufts of wool from 10 Scottish sheep breeds, then spin the wool on her spinning stick while walking (or waiting for ferries), and finally design and knit one pair of socks to represent each breed ... all the while writing about her adventures and taking plenty of photographs. Debbie has written beautifully about her journey; the hills, shorelines, and bogs explored; the sheep and people she met along the way; weather both foul and fair, and a particularly exciting chapter about the intriguing St. Kilda archipelago and its feral Soay and Boreray sheep. The eleven sock patterns, one at the end of each chapter, are a bonus and, for those of us unable to gather and spin our own fleece, all were test-knitted with commercial wool. The designs are knitted from top to toe with different motifs, among them color-patterns, cables, spirals, stripes, Kilt Hose with top-turnovers, and a pair of baby booties."--Provided from Amazon.com.
| Author | : John Buchan |
| Publisher | : Birlinn |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2012-08-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0857905031 |
A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him honour-bound to resolve a violent vendetta in which the lives of a young father and his daughter are in danger from unscrupulous and desperate men. Hannay sets out on a high-octane chase from the rural tranquility of his English manor to the Scottish Borders and, ultimately, to the remote Island of Sheep. This, the last of the Hannay adventures – and the last of Buchan's novels to be published during his lifetime – is a rare gem of high drama interwoven with Buchan's personal beliefs about the problems of a post-war world. With an introduction by Andrew Lownie. This edition is authorised by the John Buchan Society.
| Author | : Alan Butler |
| Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2013-01-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1846943817 |
Gripping tale of the history of our civilisation through man's relationship with sheep.
| Author | : John Buchan |
| Publisher | : House of Stratus |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2011-12-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0755117174 |
Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live and decides to devote his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker, who is searching for the 'River of the Sick Heart'. Braving an Arctic winter, Leithen finds the banker and then his own health returns, yet only one of the men will return to civilization ....
| Author | : Halldor Laxness |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 513 |
| Release | : 2009-02-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307486265 |
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • "A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling." —Atlantic Monthly If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
| Author | : John Buchan |
| Publisher | : House of Stratus |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2011-12-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0755117131 |
After his father's death, our young hero sets off to make his fortune in South Africa. He gets tangled up in an African tribal uprising and a strange encounter and rumours he hears make him suspect that his destination may not be as predictable as he has supposed. Set at the turn of the last century, this is a riveting adventure story.
| Author | : John Buchan |
| Publisher | : Delphi Classics |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2017-07-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1788773519 |
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