On the Other Side of Sorrow
eBook - ePub

On the Other Side of Sorrow

Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

On the Other Side of Sorrow

Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands

About this book

"An extraordinary intellectual voyage" through Gaelic environmental awareness, centuries ahead of its time, and its value today ( The Herald ). Caring for the environment, developing rural communities, and ensuring the survival of minority cultures are all laudable objectives, but they can conflict, and nowhere more so than the Scottish Highlands. As environmentalists strive to preserve the scenery and wildlife of the Highlands, the people who belong there, and who have their own claims on the landscape, question this new threat to their culture, which dates back thousands of years. In this sensitive, thought-provoking book, James Hunter probes deep into this culture to examine the dispute between Highlanders, who developed a strong environmental awareness a thousand years before other Europeans, and conservationists, whose thinking owes much to the romantic ideals of the nineteenth century. More than that, he also suggests a new way of dealing with the problem, advocating drastic land-use changes and the repopulation of empty glens—an approach that has worldwide implications. "A very thoughtful piece of advocacy." — The Scotsman

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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780857908346

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the 2014 Edition
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Foreword by Alistair McIntosh
  9. Introduction: Your Blooms in Agreement Like Elegant Music
  10. Chapter 1: Everyone Who Ever Mattered is Dead and Gone
  11. Chapter 2: The Glory of Great Hills is Unspoiled
  12. Chapter 3: The Hind is in the Forest as She Ought to Be
  13. Chapter 4: Oh for the Crags that are Wild and Majestic!
  14. Chapter 5: Without the Heartbreak of the Tale
  15. Chapter 6: The Highlands are a Devastated Countryside
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index