Highland Homespun

Highland Homespun
Author: Margaret Leigh
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2018-04-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857902989

In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye. In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the burning of the land and ploughing in March, through planting and sowing in April to haymaking and harvesting in September. Incidental details – such as a visit to the smithy, the arrival of some new bulls and the annual journey of the cows to the summer shielings – provide fascinating insights into farming life. Local characters and customs feature too, adding another rich dimension to this reflective and poignant memoir of a world now vanished forever.

Highland Homespun

Highland Homespun
Author: Margaret Leigh
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012
Genre: Country life
ISBN: 9781780270418

First published April 1936 by G. Bell and Sons.

To Tame a Wild Heart

To Tame a Wild Heart
Author: Tracy Fobes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2002-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743419294

Applauded for her unique ability to blend romance, history, and the wonders of the paranormal into unforgettable novels, Tracy Fobes has taken her flair for the otherworldly to the Scottish Highlands, where a mysterious beauty discovers her true identity. The villagers think her one of the fairy-folk, for she was found wandering the Highlands at the age of four, able to communicate with the creatures of the moors. Now eighteen, Sarah quietly uses her gift to heal wounded animals. But when word of the lovely changeling spreads, her peaceful existence is shattered. Convinced Sarah is his long-lost daughter, the powerful Duke of Argyll offers to bequeath her his estate if she will but take her place in society. Her first duty is to become a lady -- under the tutelage of the duke's erstwhile heir, the dangerously provocative Earl of Cawdor. Sarah savors the simmering passions the cynical earl arouses in her even as she suspects he is merely using seduction to secure his birthright. In this civilized world where desire and deception are one and the same, how can she ever trust in love?

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2022-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" by Siegfried Sassoon. 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.

Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction

Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction
Author: Hallie Q. Brown
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-11-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1387358529

Large Print EditionThis book is presented as an evidence of appreciation and as a token of regard to the history-making women of our race. One chief object of these introductory sentences is to secure for this book the interest of our youth that they may have instructive light on the struggles endured and the obstacles overcome by our pioneer women.It has been prepared with the hope that they will read it and derive fresh strength and courage from its records to stimulate and cause them to cleave more tenaciously to the truth and to battle more heroically for the right.The characters and facts herein set forth are veritable history. In presenting this volume to the public, it is proper to remark that it has been prepared from a settled conviction that something of the kind is needed. It is our anxious desire to preserve for future reference an account of these women, their life and character and what they accomplished under the most trying and adverse circumstances. . . .

The Listener

The Listener
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 964
Release: 1948
Genre: Radio addresses, debates, etc
ISBN: