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Exploring the Isles of the West: Skye and Tiree to the Outer Isles
Author(s): Marc Calhoun (Author)
- Publisher: The Islands Book Trust
- Publication Date: June 5, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 317 pages
- ISBN-10: 1907443312
- ISBN-13: 9781907443312
Book Description
Marc Calhoun lives in Seattle in the Western United States fully 5000 miles away from the Hebrides but he has been fascinated by their landscape and history ever since seriously beginning to explore the western islands of Scotland over twenty years ago. Exploring the Isles of the West is a compilation of his years of exploring the islands recounting not only the physical journeys but his own journey from tourist to serious explorer dedicated to seeing and learning as much as possible about the islands.A companion volume to Exploring the Isles of the Firth of Clyde to the Small Isles this book describes visits to islands from Skye to St Kilda the Flannans and North Rona. It is not a guidebook. Instead it offers the reader glimpses through landscape and history of islands seen at a moment in time. Marc shares with the reader how to experience the islands – by learning the landscape by learning the history and ultimately by learning to love a group of islands that are truly unique.
