Place Name Discoveries on Upper Deeside and the Far Highlands
In this book the authors present many unpublished place names from Upper Deeside and from counties in the Highlands beyond. These were heard from indigenous folk back to 1941. Names are given with phonetic spellings, so that readers can pronounce them accurately, and in most cases with translations from Gaelic, Norse, Scots or Pictish into English. The book is richly illustrated with 130 photographs of places and informants. Of interest to residents and visitors, it should help preserve for the future an important aspect of local identity and language.
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Weitere Autoren: Murray, Ian
- ISBN: 978-1-78222-328-3
- EAN: 9781782223283
- Produktnummer: 17440593
- Verlag: Paragon Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H28.6 cm x B22.1 cm x D1.8 cm 1'079 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 1079
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ADAM WATSON was brought up at Turriff in Aberdeenshire. At age seven he became interested in snow and a year later in summer snow-patches in the Cairngorms, the largest expanse of high hill country in Scotland. Then at age nine, his life changed after reading Seton Gordon's (SG) classic book 'The Cairngorm Hills of Scotland'. Adam wrote to Seton soon after, he replied, and they corresponded for the rest of Seton's life. Adam was obsessively keen on the Cairngorms. At 13, alone, he saw his first pair of ptarmigan and thought they were the most beautiful birds in the world, more than eagles, his first pair of which he saw later that day. Adam has been studying eagles in Deeside since. In the 1950s he met other eagle pioneers Charlie Palmar and Pat Sandeman, and Leslie Brown especially made a big influence on what should and could be studied on eagles. Although Adam worked as a biologist, all his studies of eagles have been in his own time.
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