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Oilmen, The    Oilmen, The
ISBN:9781841583020
Category: Industry
Author: Bill Mackie
Publication Date: Oct 2004
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis: This is the first of two graphic accounts of the industry’s three and a half decades of risk and reward, of drama and tragedy and of a remarkable achievement unrivalled in the industrial history of Scotland.
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Oilwork    Oilwork
ISBN:9781841584270
Category: Photography, Art, Industry, Social History
Author: Sue Jane Taylor
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Visiting construction yards, oil terminals and offshore facilities in the 1980s and 1990s, Sue Jane Taylor captured the gritty, harsh conditions of the oil industry in her sketches, paintings and sculptures. This is a remarkable visual and social commentary on a crucial development period in North Sea oil.

    
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Old Skye Tales    Old Skye Tales
ISBN:9781841582016
Category: Local History
Author: William Mackenzie
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: reprinting

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Synopsis:

An entertaining and witty book of Scotland’s most famous of islands.

REPRINT AVAILABLE MAY 2008

            
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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping    Old and New World Highland Bagpiping
ISBN:9781841583341
Category: Music
Author: John G. Gibson
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis: Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers. 
        
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On the Crofter's Trail    On the Crofter's Trail
ISBN:9781841584553
Category: Crofting
Author: David Craig
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: reprinting

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Synopsis:

On the Crofter’s Trail is the revised and updated version of David Craig’s popular book about the clearances in the 19th century.


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Orkney    Orkney
ISBN:9781841585963
Category: Local History
Author: Caroline Wickham-Jones
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This newly revised book is designed to provide a comprehensive guide for those who visit Orkney and would like to know more about its enigmatic history.

    
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Orkney    Orkney
ISBN:9781841584454
Category: Scotland, Photography
Author: Gunnie Moberg
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Orkney forms part of an exciting series of inspiring images of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery taken by some of its finest photographers.

    
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Out of Atholl    Out of Atholl
ISBN:9781841587660
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: James Irvine Robertson
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis:

This family saga emerged through the chance survival of an archive of documents covering a dozen generations of a family that lived in Atholl in Highland Perthshire.


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Alistair Moffat
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02/06/08 13:00
Alistair Moffat talks about recent books
Alistair Moffat talks about recent books
 

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