The Unremembered Places

Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories

Patrick Baker

• Editorial: Birlinn
• Año: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781788852661
• Categoría: Storia
• Categoría: Storia scozzese

Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2020
Shortlisted for The Great Outdoors, Outdoor Book of the Year 2020 There are strange relics hidden across Scotland’s landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible stories and past lives which still resonate today. Yet why are so many of these ‘wild histories’ unnoticed and overlooked? And what can they tell us about our own modern identity? From the high mountain passes of an ancient droving route to a desolate moorland graveyard, from uninhabited postindustrial islands and Clearance villages to caves explored by early climbers and the mysterious strongholds of Christian missionaries, Patrick Baker makes a series of journeys on foot and by paddle. Along the way, he encounters Neolithic settlements, bizarre World War Two structures, evidence of illicit whisky production, sacred wells and Viking burial grounds. Combining a rich fusion of travelogue and historical narrative, he threads themes of geology, natural and social history, literature, and industry from the places he visits, discovering connections between people and place more powerful than can be imagined.

Index

Aberdeen, Lord 57

Aberdeenshire 98, 111

Aberdour 160

Adomnán, St 168

Agnew, Sir Andrew 189

Ailsa Craig 104

Allt an Loch 47

Allt nan Uamh 192, 193

Amazon, River 107

Anstruther 160

Ardnamurchan 85, 93, 94, 104, 105, 114–16

Arisaig 85

Arran 104

Arrochar Alps 4

Association for the Protection of Public Rights of Roadway 50

Assynt 177, 179, 180, 181, 184

Atholl 50

Atholl, Duke of 201

Atlantic Wall, Sheriffmuir 91, 92

Baldred of Tyninghame, St 168

Ballachulish 82, 119, 128

Ballachulish, North 30

Balnamoon’s Cave, Glen Mark 189

Bass Rock 168, 170

Bay of Skaill 110

Beckett, Samuel 19

Bell Rock Lighthouse 135, 136

Belnahua 7, 118–20, 126, 127, 130, 132, 139, 141, 143, 145, 201

Ben Hiant 103, 104, 113

Ben More Assynt 195

Benton, Sylvia 190

Black Islands 79

Black Isle, the 197

Black Sandy (local fugitive around Rothiemurchus) 189

Blackwater 7, 11, 13, 30, 45, 201

Bone Caves, Inchnadamph 7, 177, 194

Bonnie Prince Charlie 178

Bonser, K.J. 41

Borthwick, Alastair 5, 9, 10, 16

Bourblaige 114, 115, 120, 201

Boyle, James 59, 60

Braemar 35, 46, 47, 53, 58

Brigadoon 111

British Home Fleet 174

Bronze Age 93, 191

Brown, Hamish 8

Brown, Philip 73, 74

Buachaille Etive Mor 16

Buckhaven 160

Bunting, Madeleine 114

Burntisland 161

Cairngorms 5, 15, 45

Callater Burn, near Braemar 35

Callater Stables 37

Campbell, Clan 116

Camas nan Geall 102, 115, 199

Canisp 179

Canna 92

Carn an t-Sagairt Mor 46

Carnegy, James 189

Cat’s Den, Rothiemurchus 189

Caulfield, General 54

Celts, the 82, 93

Charles II 169

Chicken Rock Lighthouse 136

Choiremhuilinn 115

Ciaran mac an t-Saeir, St 106

Cladh Chiarain 106

Clunie Water 35

Clydebank 4

Cockenzie 159

Coire Breac 47, 58

Coll 92

Columba, St 85, 106

Conival 185, 195

Constable, John 78, 108, 109

Cope, Phil 199

Corryvreckan 145

Covenanters 169, 190

Covesea 190

Cowen, Rob 167

Craigleith 171

Crail 160

Creag Leachdach 52

Creag Phàdruig 46

Creagh Dhu 4

Crow Craigies 55, 60

Crumley, Jim 200

Cuan Sound 118

Cul Beg 17...