Nowadays a travel to one of the Hebridean islands is relatively simple. You pick a method of travel, book a ticket and, when the weather is favourable, you're on your island in a relatively short time. What a difference with the 1700s when steam ships had yet to be invented. In fact it was Scotsman James Watt who, in 1769, patented an improved version of the steam engine which … [Read more...] about The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Books
The Island Nurse by Mary J MacLeod
A great book review about The Island Nurse by Mary J MacLeod which I'd like to share with you.The entertaining and touching true story of a district nurse on a remote Scottish island in the early 1970s. This book gives readers a generation’s step back in time, to years in the islands when life was both much harder physically and more local and simple in the sense of having … [Read more...] about The Island Nurse by Mary J MacLeod
A Land that Lies Westward Book Review
The eighth International Conference on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster was held at the Columba Centre (Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle), Isle of Islay in July 2006. Although papers from the entire field of Scottish and Ulster language study were included, a special focus was on the areas of Islay, Jura and coastal mainland Argyll. The languages, place-names, culture, history, … [Read more...] about A Land that Lies Westward Book Review