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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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Clan Mackay Bag
£7.50 |
Eco Friendly Bags: 100% natural cotton Thread made in Manchester. Each bag is designed cut and sewn only in the Highlands of Scotland. Measurements: 17` (43cm) x 15` (38 cm) with gusset. |
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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
£8.99 |
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 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 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 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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