The Scottish Islands: The Bestselling Guide to Every Scottish Island by Hamish Haswell-Smith |
by Neil M. Gunn
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Neil Gunn described this book as the "simple record of a holiday in a boat" but it is much more than that. This voyage marks the significant turning point in the career of one of Scotland's most distinguished twentieth-century authors, the point at which he made his decision to become a full-time writer. He resigned his post in the Civil Service, sold his house, bought a boat and set off. The voyage was undertaken in the 1930s, through the islands of the Inner Hebrides, and it is a voyage of discovery - of the elemental power of the sea, of the beauty of the islands and of the traditions and legends of those who live in them, and of the Celtic and Norse civilisations that left their marks.
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"Off in a Boat" is the record of a journey of exploration in 1937, through the Inner Hebrides, in a small boat which was bought especially for the voyage...... some passages in the book deal with the practicalities of reading charts and manoeuvring the boat. Others evoke the past with literary allusions to travellers in these waters, such as Boswell and Johnson and with an exploration of the strands of Celtic and Norse civilisations that have left their mark on these islands. The writing in this book skilfully blends myth with reality, past with present and powerful observations with gentle humour.
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