Author: Keith Broomfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913836139
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Scotsman's Odyssey
Author: Ian G Macpherson
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1839780681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
'A Scotsman's Odyssey' is a riveting account of four decades of sea adventures and exploration, written so vividly you can feel the salt spray in your face.Ian's maritime chronicle has something for everyone. His love of sailing has taken him to out-of-the-way places ranging from the sub-arctic Faroes Islands to the remote Barrier Reef islands in tropical Australia. 'A Scotsman's Odyssey' is a book as much about voyaging in the imagination as on the waves. It inspires cruising yachtsmen and yachtswomen to sail beyond their native shores, young readers to seize opportunities to sail on Ocean Youth Trust voyages, armchair sailors to journey to northern Europe and ancient Venetian ports in Greece and Croatia. Nature lovers will enjoy Ian's encounters with basking sharks, dolphins, killer and humpbacked whales, and even salt-water crocodiles.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1839780681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
'A Scotsman's Odyssey' is a riveting account of four decades of sea adventures and exploration, written so vividly you can feel the salt spray in your face.Ian's maritime chronicle has something for everyone. His love of sailing has taken him to out-of-the-way places ranging from the sub-arctic Faroes Islands to the remote Barrier Reef islands in tropical Australia. 'A Scotsman's Odyssey' is a book as much about voyaging in the imagination as on the waves. It inspires cruising yachtsmen and yachtswomen to sail beyond their native shores, young readers to seize opportunities to sail on Ocean Youth Trust voyages, armchair sailors to journey to northern Europe and ancient Venetian ports in Greece and Croatia. Nature lovers will enjoy Ian's encounters with basking sharks, dolphins, killer and humpbacked whales, and even salt-water crocodiles.
Wildlife & Us
Author: Ben Parker
Publisher: Blackford Editions
ISBN: 9781739520304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wildlife occupy an incredibly special place in Scottish heritage. Many offer incredible spectacles, of course; but many are associated with so much more. Consider, for example, how various wildlife have fuelled some of the nation's most famous folktales and legends, and inspired its most prominent artists and authors. This book explores the rich abundance of ways in which the wildlife of Scotland have impacted us, and vice versa, through time, in an effort to broaden and deepen appreciation for the nation's wildlife.
Publisher: Blackford Editions
ISBN: 9781739520304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wildlife occupy an incredibly special place in Scottish heritage. Many offer incredible spectacles, of course; but many are associated with so much more. Consider, for example, how various wildlife have fuelled some of the nation's most famous folktales and legends, and inspired its most prominent artists and authors. This book explores the rich abundance of ways in which the wildlife of Scotland have impacted us, and vice versa, through time, in an effort to broaden and deepen appreciation for the nation's wildlife.
An Island Odyssey
Author: Hamish Haswell-Smith
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782112650
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
In An Island Odyssey Hamish Haswell-Smith casts off in his forty-one-foot sloop Jandara, armed with his sketch pad and a route map of a journey first taken by Martin Martin in 1703. Haswell-Smith sets sail on a voyage that will take him to fifty-two different islands around the Scottish Coast, from Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde to St. Kilda, Fair Isle and Bass Rock. Filled with natural history, local legend and landscapes and accompanied by the author's own distinctive sketches and watercolours An Island Odyssey is a delightful way to discover or rediscover the romance, beauty and inescapable magnetism of the Scottish Islands.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782112650
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
In An Island Odyssey Hamish Haswell-Smith casts off in his forty-one-foot sloop Jandara, armed with his sketch pad and a route map of a journey first taken by Martin Martin in 1703. Haswell-Smith sets sail on a voyage that will take him to fifty-two different islands around the Scottish Coast, from Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde to St. Kilda, Fair Isle and Bass Rock. Filled with natural history, local legend and landscapes and accompanied by the author's own distinctive sketches and watercolours An Island Odyssey is a delightful way to discover or rediscover the romance, beauty and inescapable magnetism of the Scottish Islands.