Paperback book `Crowdie and Cream` by Finlay J. MacDonald.
An account of a childhood spent in Harris in the years after World War I.
1997.272.14
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1997.272.10
Hardback book `Potter`s New Cyclopaedia of botanic drugs and preparations` by R. C. Wren.
Description of plants with a brief summary of their action and uses and a note of the preparations made from them.
1999.291.28
Paperback book `Hiort – Far na laigh a` ghrian` by Calum MacFhearghuis.
The history and culture of the people of St Kilda.
2000.110.3
Hardback book `Highland Ponies` by John M MacDonald.
Account of the Highland pony with some reminiscences of Highland men. Chapter on Tiree on page 66 has incorrect information.
1997.272.17
Paperback book `A Guide to Coll` by Betty MacDougall.
A guide to Coll illustrated with black and white photographs.
1999.291.12
Hardback book `Landscape with Lake Dwellings` by Ian Morrison.
The results of a survey of crannogs in Loch Awe and Tay and a re-interpretation of 19th and 20th century excavations.
1999.291.24
Paperback book `The Hebrides at War` by Mike Hughes.
Illustrated account of the men and women who served and lived in Oban and the Hebrides during World War II.
1999.291.4
Comb-bound book `Selected Papers in Folklore` by Margaret Bennett.
A selection of papers by Margaret Bennett: `Balquhidder Revisited: Fairylore in the Scottish Highlands, 1690-1990`; `Plants and People in Oral Tradition: Folklore in the Scottish Highlands`; `Plant Lore in Gaelic Scotland`; `In Sickness and in Health: Traditional and Adopted Medical Practices of Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec`; `Waters of Life and Health: Well-Worshipping in Scotland`; `Gaelic Song in Eastern Canada: Twentieth Century Reflections`; `Musical Traditions of the Scots in Newfoundland; From Kennedy Fraser to the Jimmy Shand Experience in Five Generations`; several extracts from `Tocher`; `Scottish Customs of Christmas and New Year`; `The Pipers` Curiosity`.
1997.272.1
Paperback book `An Introduction to Old Norse` by E. V. Gordon.
Representative selection of excerpts in prose and verse, the entire `Hrafnkels saga freysgoda`, a grammar and glossary.
2000.101.1
Paperback book `Rock Music` by M. C. Fagg.
The uses of naturally occuring resonant rocks by human beings throughout the ages as accompaniments for singing and dancing and as signalling devices (see pages 85-6 for Tiree’s Ringing Stone, Balephetrish).