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A Summer in Skye
 
 
A Summer in Skye (Paperback)
by Alexander Smith (Author), Alexander Strahan (Illustrator)
4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Birlinn Ltd; New Ed edition (4 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1874744386
  • ISBN-13: 978-1874744382
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.1 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 439,388 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Unknown Binding (Popular ed) |  All Editions


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In 1864 Alexander Smith, poet and essayist, spent six weeks on the island of Skye. Inspired by his stay, this prose poem celebrates his life, the life around him and the history and nature of the island.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars You need a book on holiday on Skye...in case it rains., 14 Oct 2005
By P. Thomson "Peter" (Hull, UK) - See all my reviews
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It was a strange experience to actually sit and read a book in the very house in which it had been written back in the 1860's. I had some inclination that I was close to one of the main settings for the book from Alexander Smiths superb detail on physical landscape but it was not until a brief conversation with an islander in a gift shop that the true fact emerged. An impulse bid on-line for this hefty work left me with a copy withdrawn from a municipal library stock with hard cover and an ominous message on the inside cover not to return the book to the lending library if there was a contagious illness in the household. Perhaps a standard sticky insert for the 1950's library service. The text starts in Edinburgh with highly descriptive scenes of a bustling city and some not very complimentary remarks about the rougher residents of what are now the prime tour