This imaginative and stimulating book explores the various attitudes of the area through the writing of those who travelled there over the centuries. In it Denis Rixson examines a variety of sources, from early lists of the islands to Dean Munro, Timothy Pont and Martin Martin; from maps and charts to official records of the Church and State, and the dozens of individual accounts by those who visited the area and encountered its people.
These records enable us to build up a remarkably detailed composite picture of a remote area, long hidden from the rest of Britain, sheltered by distance, obscured by language and cultural barriers, and often politically and militarily opposed. The Hebridean Traveller concentrates on the period from earliest times to around 1800, when the modern tourist industry was beginning to develop.
Denis Rixson was educated at Oxford University and currently lives in Mallaig, where he is a teacher at the High School. He has written a number of highly acclaimed books and is well known as an expert on the history of the West Highlands.
Also available: Knoydart, ISBN 1841580198, £7.99
The West Highland Galley, ISBN 1841580139, £6.99
The Small Isles, ISBN 1841581542, £7.99
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