William Mackenzie

Old Skye Tales (eBook, ePUB)

Traditions, Reflections and Memories
Redaktion: Maclean, Alasdair

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mackenzie's Old Skye Tales is an extraordinary compilation of lore, legend, tradition and incident from the Isle of Skye, collected and written by a man of considerable intelligence and observation. It is one of the most important sources for the history of the island. As well as containing a large amount of information of the geography of the island (particularly the north), there are also important sections on crofting, the Church, as well as local superstitions, sayings, second sight and even local characters of his time.

This edition was first published by the Maclean Press in 1995.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Origin
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857909688
• Artikelnr.: 48681295

Autorenporträt

William Mackenzie was born in 1851 in Melness, Sutherland though moved to Skye at an early age. He began teaching in Uig and in 1879 was appointed headmaster of Valtos in Staffin. He became active in the crofter agitation of the 1880s and was one of the crofters' representatives at the Napier Commission of 1884. He retired in 1915 and began to write his reminiscences, which were published in two books in 1930 and 1934. The present volume is an edited compilation of these two works.