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Books with Seasonal Interests - as Presents or for Personal Pursuits<br />
Tobermory<br />
by Nic Davies, Sam Jones<br />
and Brian Swinbanks<br />
£9.99 Birlinn 978-1-78027-315-0<br />
e vibrant main street of the main town<br />
on Mull is photogenic - with its brightlycoloured<br />
frontages and iconic waterfront.<br />
Here is a collection of the work of three<br />
acclaimed, local photographers who have<br />
captured images of places, people,<br />
communities, events and wildlife encounters.<br />
e aerial views and stunning sunsets<br />
set the scene for a town to be recommended<br />
for holidaying and a book for giing.<br />
Island on the Edge -<br />
A Life on Soay<br />
by Anne Cholawo<br />
£12.99 Birlinn 978-1-78027-349-5<br />
e author saw Soay for the first time in<br />
1989, having found an advertisement for a<br />
property there. She was smitten, purchased<br />
and moved to be one of 17 residents. Now,<br />
including Anne and her husband, Robin,<br />
there are three. is is a first-person<br />
account of transition from urban life to selfsufficiency,<br />
of landscape and characters, of<br />
present-day activities and past endeavours,<br />
such as those of Gavin Maxwell.<br />
The Crinan Canal<br />
by Marian Pallister<br />
£9.99 Birlinn<br />
978-1-78027-346-4<br />
is is the first history of the canal that is<br />
a significant monument to British civil<br />
engineering. It has been called ‘Britain’s<br />
most beautiful shortcut’ and from 1801<br />
saved commercial shipping from<br />
journeying around the Mull of Kintyre to<br />
reach the West Coast and the Hebridean<br />
islands. Victoria and Albert made a return<br />
voyage in 1847 and encouraged tourists to<br />
follow the ‘Royal Route’.<br />
The Book of Iona -<br />
An Anthology<br />
Edited by Robert Crawford<br />
£14.99 Polygon 978-1-84697-351-2<br />
While Iona has come a long way since the<br />
early writings by and of Columba,<br />
Professor Crawford has brought together<br />
a wide range of stories, poems, assessments,<br />
analyses and reflections. e island<br />
annually attracts hundreds of thousands<br />
of visitors, for it is a place of pilgrimage<br />
and a tourist trail destination. is book<br />
deserves to attract the same length queues<br />
as those generated by the ferry.<br />
Religion in Secular Society<br />
by Bryan R Wilson<br />
Edited by Steve Bruce<br />
£27.50 Oxford University Press<br />
978-0-19-878837-9<br />
Visitors to the Outer Hebrides on a<br />
Sunday will be aware of the popularity of<br />
church-going among the Protestants in<br />
the north and the Catholics in the south.<br />
Secularisation has been relatively slow to<br />
develop, but in the religious culture of<br />
most of the UK and much of the USA it<br />
has been widespread. Bryan Wilson<br />
considers changes since the publication of<br />
his Religion in Secular Society 50 years ago.<br />
A Shetlander’s Fair Isle<br />
Graph Book<br />
with an Introduction by<br />
Dr Carol Christiansen<br />
£20.00 e Shetland Times Ltd<br />
978-1-910997-08-6<br />
is is for the adventurous knitter who<br />
wishes to be inspired by classic Shetland Fair<br />
Isle patterns and colourways as well as by<br />
Norwegian-created motifs. Income from<br />
this book will be used by the Shetland Guild<br />
of Spinners, Knitters, Weavers and Dyers to<br />
promote all aspects of their traditional<br />
textile skills that are also encouraged on the<br />
website www.ravelry.com<br />
6 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORER NOVEMBER / DECEMBER <strong>2016</strong>
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