Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Jenni Calder
yhteensä 20 hakutulosta
Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
A New Edition of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, newly adapted for the modern reader by Jenni Calder
Lost in the Backwoods
How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identityHow is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? …
Scots in the USA
The map of the United States is peppered with Scottish place-names and America's telephone directories are filled with surnames illustrating Scottish ancestry. Increasingly, …
Island Landfalls
Ill health drove Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland; the urge for new and adventurous places drew him to the Pacific. There were those at home who would have been happier to …
The Burning Glass
Naomi Mitchison was born towards the end of the nineteenth century and grew into an era of change, political, social and sexual. All of these she embraced and influenced in the …
Frontier Scots
Today there are up to 25 million Americans who claim to have Scottish heritage. Many of these people are the descendants of Scots who journeyed to America in the 19th Century, and …
Travels in the Colonies in 1773-1775 Described in the Letters of William Mylne
Travels in the Colonies in 1773-1775 Described in the Letters of William Mylne contains a narrative of the two years that Scottish architect and engineer William Mylne spent in the …
Tales of the South Seas
sland Landfalls · The Wrecker · The Ebb-TideDriven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the 'stirabout of epochs and …
Scots in Canada
In Canada there are nearly as many descendants of Scots as there are people living in Scotland; almost 5 million Canadians ticked the 'Scottish origin' box in the most recent …
The Scottish Novels
Kidnapped - Catriona - The Master of Ballantrae - Weir of HermistonThese four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship …
Frontier Scots
Today there are up to 25 million Americans who claim to have Scottish heritage. Many of these people are the descendants of Scots who journeyed to America in the 19th Century, and …
Tales of the South Seas
Driven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the 'stirabout of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilisations, virtues …