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A Walk in Strathnaver
Strathnaver Museum
£3.00

 

H2007 Year of Culture: Small book produced as a result of this Project. Incorporates George Gunn`s poem `A Walk in Strathnaver` with pictures produced by Donna Murray to illustrate each verse. Also includes some of the children`s work and photos from Donna`s Taster Craft Event in Bettyhill.

 

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Brief History of the Museum
Strathnaver Museum
£2.00

 

Small booklet giving a brief history of the clearances of Achanlochy and Rossal and the story of the Farr Stone.

 

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Crofting Years
Francis Thompson
£6.95

 

This book about crofting describes a written history spanning the last two centuries. Bloody conflicts and gunboat diplomacy treachery compassion music all figure in the story.

 

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Dr Ian Grimble
Strathnaver Museum
£3.00

 

Small booklet incoporating the information and pictures used in a museum display set up in 2006 about the life of Dr Ian Grimble, Writer/Historian, Radio & TV Producer/Presenter and Co-Founder of Strathnaver Museum.

 

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Gloomy Memories
Donald Macleod
£7.50

 

Gives an eyewitness account of the Highland clearances in Strathnaver. `I was present at the pulling and burning of the house of William Chisolm`. Donald Macleod wrote this letter with those he sent to the Edinburgh Chronicle describing the story of a 100 year old bed-ridden woman being evicted. Seallar`s comment was `damn her the old witch she has lived too long`.

 

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Healing Threads
Mary Beith
£9.99

 

Traces the history of Highland folk medicine from earliest times in Part1; Part 2 gives a directory of remedies, cures and practices.

 

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Highland Cattle Galore
Una F Cochrane
£7.99

 

Celebrates a breed of domestic cattle that evolved alongside the flourishing of ancient man in the once forested shores, glens and mountains of Scotland.

 

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History of the Highland Clearances
Alexander Mackenzie
£9.99

 

An unparalleled record of the events of that time given in the words of a wide variety of witnesses and participants.

 

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Homage to Rob Donn
Donald Campbell
£5.00

 

Selection of poems in broad Scots dialect in homage to Rob Donn the celebrated Gaelic poet.

 

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Memories of North and West Sutherland
Christopher J Uncles
£12.95

 

Pictorial account in black and white of the area.

 

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North Sutherland Studies
Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group
£2.70

 

Notes on Strathnaver Clearances and crofting landscape in Skerray,Sutherland.,Notes on building types and traditions in Tongue & Farr Parishes. Illustrated black & white

 

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Patrick Sellar as a Young Man (1801-1810) by
G M Fraser
£6.10

 

Account of the first 10 years of Sellar’s working life firstly in his father’s law firm then as a farmer in Sutherland.

 

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Tales of the North Coast
Alan Temperley and the children of Farr Secondary School, Bettyhill
£0.00

 

Stories collected in the early 1970’s and told by the pupils of Farr Secondary School, Bettyhill. Tales are based on fact and legend.

 

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The Highland Clearances
John Prebble
£12.99

 

This book is a graphic portrayal of The Highland Clearances and the suffering of a disposed population. The museum holds John Prebble`s original manuscript.

 

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The Drove Roads of Scotland
A.R.B Haldane
£9.99

 

One of the great classics of Scottish History interweaving folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinating account of Scotland`s droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from every corner of the land to markets in central Scotland.

 

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The Northern Highlands
Tom Atkinson
£6.99

 

Description of area of northern Scotland between Ullapool and Cape Wrath and between Bonar Bridge and John O’ Groats also includes myths and legends and history and poetry.

 

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The Story of the Lovat Scouts
Michael Leslie Melville
£10.99

 

Regiment of Scouts raised by Lord Lovat in 1900, mainly from Highland stalkers. Distinguised in two world wars.

 

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The World of Rob Donn
Ian Grimble
£16.99

 

Stories and poems of Rob Donn one of the last Gaelic Poets born in 1714

 

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Their Past Your Future
Strathnaver Museum
£5.00

 

DVD: Their Past Your Future Project. Interviews by schoolchildren with local people on their wartime memories

 
 

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