Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of ScotlandEdinburgh University Press, 2002 - 601 pages "Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description. |
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Page 515
... pack were left in the large house by them- selves , she could not for her life quit thinking of the pack one mo- ment . What was in it that made it so heavy that its owner could not it ? She would go and see what was in it . It was a ...
... pack were left in the large house by them- selves , she could not for her life quit thinking of the pack one mo- ment . What was in it that made it so heavy that its owner could not it ? She would go and see what was in it . It was a ...
Page 516
... pack " said Richard , staring at Alice , and letting his chops fall down . Richard had just lifted the flail over his head to begin threshing a sheaf , but when he heard of a living pack , he dropped one end of the hand - staff to the ...
... pack " said Richard , staring at Alice , and letting his chops fall down . Richard had just lifted the flail over his head to begin threshing a sheaf , but when he heard of a living pack , he dropped one end of the hand - staff to the ...
Page 562
... Pack ' The Long Pack ' relates a tradition associated with Lee Hall , the home of the Ridley family , on the banks of the North Tyne south of Bellingham , Northumberland . The churchyard of St Cuthbert's at Bellingham is supposed to ...
... Pack ' The Long Pack ' relates a tradition associated with Lee Hall , the home of the Ridley family , on the banks of the North Tyne south of Bellingham , Northumberland . The churchyard of St Cuthbert's at Bellingham is supposed to ...
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