Storm S Edge Life Death And Magic In The Islands Of Orkney
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Storm S Edge
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Author : Peter Marshall
language : en
Publisher: William Collins
Release Date : 2025-04-10
Storm S Edge written by Peter Marshall and has been published by William Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Storm S Edge Life Death And Magic In The Islands Of Orkney
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Author : Peter Marshall
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2024-04-11
Storm S Edge Life Death And Magic In The Islands Of Orkney written by Peter Marshall and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-11 with History categories.
From Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, Storm’s Edge is a new history of the Orkney Islands that delves deep into island politics, folk beliefs and community memory on the geographical edge of Britain.
Orkney
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Author : Richard Clubley
language : en
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Release Date : 2021-06-21
Orkney written by Richard Clubley and has been published by Luath Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-21 with Travel categories.
After moving permanently to the island he's always dreamed of, Richard Clubley here sets out to capture the experience of life on Orkney, from the history of Neolithic sites to a future in renewable energy, telling the stories of countless Orcadians along the way. Determined to travel further afield than his home on Mainland, Richard takes to the Outer Islands to meet the people who live there and tell their stories. Orkney: A Special Way of Life is a delight for any lover of Scotland's remote places, filled with rich descriptions of the islands.
Heretics And Believers
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Author : Peter Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-02
Heretics And Believers written by Peter Marshall and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with Religion categories.
A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of “reform” in various competing guises. King Henry VIII wanted an orderly, uniform Reformation, but his actions opened a Pandora’s Box from which pluralism and diversity flowed and rooted themselves in English life. With sensitivity to individual experience as well as masterfully synthesizing historical and institutional developments, Marshall frames the perceptions and actions of people great and small, from monarchs and bishops to ordinary families and ecclesiastics, against a backdrop of profound change that altered the meanings of “religion” itself. This engaging history reveals what was really at stake in the overthrow of Catholic culture and the reshaping of the English Church.
Historia Norwegie
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Author : Inger Ekrem
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2003
Historia Norwegie written by Inger Ekrem and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Norway categories.
Written during the second half of the 12th century, the Historia Norwegie presents a lively and Christianised account of Norwegian history, particularly of the 10th century.
Beside The Ocean Of Time
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Author : George Mackay Brown
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-03-27
Beside The Ocean Of Time written by George Mackay Brown and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with Fiction categories.
In this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter. In his day-dreams he relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople, then accompanying a Falstaffian knight to the battle of Bannockburn. Thorfinn wakes to the twentieth century and a community whose way of life, steeped in legend and tradition, has remained unchanged for centuries. But as the boy grows up - and falls in love with a vivacious and mysterious stranger - the transforming effect of modern civilization brings momentous and irreversible changes to the island. During the Second World War Thorfinn finds himself in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and it is here that he discovers his gifts as a writer. Long afterwards he returns, now a successful novelist, to a deserted and battle-scarred island. Searching for the peace and freedom of mind he had in abundance as a child, he finds instead something he didn't even know he was looking for. George Mackay Brown intertwines myth and reality to create a novel of deceptive simplicity. The story of Thorfinn and the island of Norday is a universal and profound one, rooted in the timeless landscape of the Orkneys, the inspiration of all his writing.
How The Scots Invented The Modern World
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Author : Arthur Herman
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2007-12-18
How The Scots Invented The Modern World written by Arthur Herman and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.
The Hidden Beach
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Author : Karen Swan
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-07-09
The Hidden Beach written by Karen Swan and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-09 with Fiction categories.
Secrets, betrayal and shocking revelations await in Sweden’s stunning holiday islands . . . The Hidden Beach is the addictive page-turner by bestselling author, Karen Swan. Two’s a love story. Three’s a crowd. In Stockholm’s oldest quarter, Bell Everhurst loves her job working as a nanny for the rich and charming Hanna and Max Mogert, caring for their three children. But one morning, everything changes. A woman from a clinic Bell has never heard of asks her to pass on the message that Hanna’s husband is awake. But the man isn’t her husband Max. As the truth about Hanna’s past is revealed, the consequences are devastating. As the family heads off to spend their summer on Sweden’s idyllic islands, will Bell be caught in the crossfire? ‘Deliciously glamorous, irresistibly romantic!’ - Hello! Enjoy more of Karen Swan's captivating seasonal novels: The Greek Escape and The Rome Affair.
Selkie
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Author : Anne Cameron
language : en
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company
Release Date : 1996
Selkie written by Anne Cameron and has been published by Harbour Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
One morning it starts raining in Cassidy's house, and nobody can get it to stop. Like everyone else, Cassisy figures it's just a problem with the pipes. She doesn't know that she's about to embark on the ride of her life. She doesn't know that before the year is out, she will have wound up in hospital with every bruise and welt from her twenty-year marriage showing on her body, and survived a surreal whale-watching raft accident, and travelled through lifetimes and constellations, and written her life story into a salt-encrusted rock on a deserted beach. Even more strange and wonderful, she will have experienced the selkies, those mythical creatures, half-seal, half-woman, who swim through the deepest waters of every woman's heart.
The Monster S Wife
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Author : Horsley Kate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Monster S Wife written by Horsley Kate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) categories.