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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... story may appear , and an extraordinary story it certainly is , I have not the slightest cause to doubt the certainty of the leading circum- stances ; with regard to the rest , you have them as I had them . In every mountainous district ...
... story may appear , and an extraordinary story it certainly is , I have not the slightest cause to doubt the certainty of the leading circum- stances ; with regard to the rest , you have them as I had them . In every mountainous district ...
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... story the night ; an ' thou wad tell him till the muorn at day light , thou'lt never make him either the dafter or the wiser . " " Heard ye ever the like o ' that ? " said Moffat , " to say that I canna take up a story ? I can take up any ...
... story the night ; an ' thou wad tell him till the muorn at day light , thou'lt never make him either the dafter or the wiser . " " Heard ye ever the like o ' that ? " said Moffat , " to say that I canna take up a story ? I can take up any ...
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... Story of Macpherson First published in The Spy as ' Dreadful Story of Major Macpherson , No. 13 ( 24 November 1810 ) , pp . 135-38 , and based on an incident reported ten years earlier : ' Major Macpherson of Lorick , and four other ...
... Story of Macpherson First published in The Spy as ' Dreadful Story of Major Macpherson , No. 13 ( 24 November 1810 ) , pp . 135-38 , and based on an incident reported ten years earlier : ' Major Macpherson of Lorick , and four other ...
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