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The Highland Bagpipe and its Music

The Highland Bagpipe and its Music


ISBN: 9781841586663
Category: Scottish Culture, Music
Author: Roderick Cannon
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

The only comprehensive book of piping in print, Roderick Cannon provides a great wealth of information for those lovers of the pipes.


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Spikkin Doric

Spikkin Doric


ISBN: 9781841586809
Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies, Reference
Author: Norman Harper
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
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Synopsis:
This is a new series of pocket books designed to introduce some of the wealth of the spoken and written word in Scotland to those who may not be familiar with them.

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The Cornkister Days

The Cornkister Days


ISBN: 9781841587103
Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
David Kerr Cameron describes the rural upheavals and developments of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries towards the landscape we recognise today. The third in Cameron's trilogy of rural life.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.
    
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The Ballad and the Plough

The Ballad and the Plough


ISBN: 9781841587080
Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

A rich and captivating insight into life in a Scottish farm town in the mid nineteenth century. Together with Willie Gavin, Crofter Man and The Cornkister Days, this volume forms a remarkable trilogy on life in rural Scotland.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.


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Great Balls of Fire

Great Balls of Fire


ISBN: 9781841587684
Category: Travel Writing, Scottish Culture
Author: Gary Sutherland
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
A description of the multiple strange, fascinating, and fun festivals celebrated across Scotland. It charts a year of madness which leads the author on a hilarious and insightful journey around Scotland's most bizarre and fantastic festivals that no one - whether visitor or native - should miss.
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Country Life in Scotland

Country Life in Scotland


ISBN: 9781841586991
Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: Alexander Fenton
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Alexander Fenton is acknowledged as Scotland’s leading expert on rural life and offers his readers an improved version of the classic Scottish Country Life.

        


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Willie Gavin, Crofter Man

Willie Gavin, Crofter Man


ISBN: 9781841587097
Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

A portrait of crofting life in the bare and sometimes bitter landscape of Scotland’s North-east lowlands. The second part of Cameron’s trilogy of rural life.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.

    
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Highland Folk Ways

Highland Folk Ways


ISBN: 9781874744429
Category: Scottish Culture, Folklore
Author: Isabel F. Grant
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors’ lives - the clothes, cooking utensils, weapons, food and the implements for fishing, farming and building are all meticulously depicted and placed in historical context.


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The Burns Supper Companion

The Burns Supper Companion


ISBN: 9781841585833
Category: Scottish Culture
Author: Nancy Marshall
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
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Synopsis:
From the casual to the formal, this book is an essential guide for anyone intending to hold or attend a Burns Night.

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Scottish Customs

Scottish Customs


ISBN: 9781841582931
Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: Margaret Bennett
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

Scottish Customs is a highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, drawn from a broad range of literary sources dating back to the 16th century.


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The Summer Walkers

The Summer Walkers


ISBN: 9781841581996
Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: Timothy Neat
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

The Summer Walkers documents an archetypal and vanishing way of life.


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