<p>In the early hours of New Year's morning, 1919, in a raging storm, the lolaire, bringing troops back from WW 1, sank on its entry to Stornoway Harbour, Isle of Lewis. Most on board perished. The island community was devastated and, in addition to its high loss of men in WW1, lost a further 200 men in its sinking, The wreck is still in Stornoway Harbour. The Dark Ship is about a poet who went to war; his lovers; his friends who stayed behind, and his friends who fought beside him. The novel spans three generations and two world wars, to the present day, and celebrates love, music and poetry in this carefully interwoven story that reflects the complex past and community of a Scottish island.</p>

The Dark Ship

Literature & Fiction

MacLeod, Anne

British & Irish

Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

This book looks at visual images as an alternative and undervalued source of evidence for ideas about the Scottish Gàidhealtachd in the period 1700 to 1880. Illustrated with 100 plates, this work brings together many little known and previously unrelated images. Addressing the textual bias inherent in Scottish historical studies, the book examines a broad range of maps, plans, paintings, drawings, sketches and printed images, arguing that the concept of antiquity was the single most powerful influence driving the visual representation of the Highlands and Islands from 1700 to 1880 and beyond. Successive chapters look at archaeological, ethnological, and geological motives for visualizing the Highlands, and at the bias in favor of antiquity that resulted from the spread of these intellectual influences into the fine arts. The book concludes that hallmarked visual representations of the region resulted in a preservationist mentality that has had powerful repercussions for approaches to Highland issues down to the present day.

From an Antique Land: Visual Representations of the Highlands, 1700–1880

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

John Donald

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