Calum's Road
10 best books like Calum's Road (Roger Hutchinson): I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science, and Culture, Y Gododdin, The Search for the Sunken Treasure: Australia, Aristocrats: Power, Grace, and Decadence: Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present, The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest, The Future History of the Arctic, True North: Travels in Arctic Europe, The Life and Death of St Kilda, Cloud Howe
| Author | Francis Spufford |
| ISBN | 0312220812 |
Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination . . ." The title, a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return, embodies...
| Author | Mike Jay |
| ISBN | 1594773939 |
An illustrated cultural history of drug use from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals
• Featuring artwork from the upcoming High Society exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, one of the world’s greatest medical history collections
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| Author | Aneirin |
| ISBN | 0863833543 |
Aneirin, the sixth century Welsh poet, is reputed to have been one of a handful of survivors from the battle of Catraeth, which inspired his epic poem, The Gododdin. Aneirin's poem is a universal celebration of the undying theme of the ideal hero. O'Grady's belief that what Aneirin wrote of his war is...
| Author | Elizabeth Singer Hunt |
| ISBN | 1862301255 |
The Search for Sunken Treasure by Elizabeth Singer Hunter, is a book recommended for children, that is fiction, the main character in this book is Jack the Secret Agent, and he is a fearless bold agent who isn’t afraid to take risks, and will do anything to complete the mission. The book’s setting...
| Author | Lawrence James |
| ISBN | 0312615450 |
Aristocracy means "rule by the best." For nine hundred years, the British aristocracy considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws, and guide the nation. Its virtues lay in its collective wisdom, its attachment to chivalric codes, and its sense of public duty. It evolved from a medieval...
| Author | Jack Nisbet |
| ISBN | 1570616132 |
Jack Nisbet first told the story of British explorer David Thompson, who mapped the Columbia River, in his acclaimed book Sources of the River, which set the standard for research and narrative biography for the region. Now Nisbet turns his attention to David Douglas, the premier botanical explorer...
| Author | Charles Emmerson |
| ISBN | 1586486365 |
Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed...
| Author | Gavin Francis |
| ISBN | 1846970784 |
The stark, vast beauty of the remote Arctic Europe landscape has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history and mythology, Gavin Francis offers a unique portrait of the northern fringes of Europe. His journey begins in the Shetland...
| Author | Tom Steel |
| ISBN | 0006373402 |
On 29 August 1930 the remaining 36 inhabitants of this bleak but spectacular island off Scotland's western coast took ship for the mainland. A community that had survived alone for centuries finally succumbed to the ravages that resulted from mainland contact. What their lives had been like century...
| Author | Lewis Grassic Gibbon |
| ISBN | 1406572187 |
Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), a Scottish writer. Mitchell started working as a journalist for the Aberdeen Journal and the Scottish Farmer at age 16. In 1919 he joined the Royal Army Service Corps and served in Persia, India and Egypt before enlisting...
| Author | Compton Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 0140292985 |
The ancient clan spirit is not yet dead in the Scottish highlands, with Donald MacDonald of Ben Nevis ruling the roost at wild, craggy Glenbogle Castle. Woe betide those who trespass on this Chieftain's kingdom...
So when a hapless bunch of Sassenach hikers invades the glens, camping on Ben...
| Author | Charles Maclean |
| ISBN | 0862413885 |
A part of Britain but a world apart, St Kilda society existed almost completely isolated from the mainstream of civilization for more than 1000 years. Increased contact with the mainland during the 19th century brought about the downfall of what many once regarded as an ideal society. Missionaries...
| Author | Andrew Greig |
| ISBN | 1847249965 |
I should like you to fish for me at the Loch of the Green Corrie,' MacCaig commanded months before his death. 'Go to Lochinver and ask for a man named Norman MacAskill - if he likes you he may tell you where it is. If you catch a fish, I shall be delighted. If you fail, then looking down from a place in which I do...
| Author | Kathleen Jamie |
| ISBN | 0954221745 |
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary...
| Author | Mark Edmundson |
| ISBN | 1582345376 |
A dramatic revisiting of Freud's escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna, his final days on earth, and his most controversial work—Moses and Monotheism.
When Hitler invaded Vienna in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation....
The Sea Kingdoms: The History of Celtic Britain Ireland
| Author | Alistair Moffat |
| ISBN | 1841587176 |
Alistair Moffat's journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland, ignores national boundaries to reveal the rich fabric of culture and history of Celtic Britain which still survives today. This is a vividly told, dramatic and enlightening account...
| Author | Robert Fossier |
| ISBN | 0691143129 |
In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to...
| Author | Piers Paul Read |
| ISBN | 0679408193 |
The bestselling author of Blaze presents a heart-pounding account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, based on sources not available before the fall of the Soviet Union. Read's enthralling account is filled with acts of courage--and also bumbling confusion, secrecy, lies, and coverups....
| Author | James MacKillop |
| ISBN | 0141017945 |
Myths and Legends of the Celts is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the mythology of the peoples who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe - from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul and Brittany.
Drawing on recent historical and archaeological research, as well as literary...
A.D. 500: A Journey Through The Dark Isles Of Britain And Ireland
| Author | Simon Young |
| ISBN | 0753819465 |
From back cover - "From Tintagel and tin-mining to saints and slave markets, from alcohol and King Arthur to boat burials and beavers - here are the realities of life in the sixth century A.D.
Based squarely on archaeological and historical evidence, this window on the mysterious world of the...
The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders
| Author | Desmond Seward |
| ISBN | 0140195017 |
The military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's stormtroopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, devoted to charitable works. The Monks of War is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century. The...
Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918
| Author | Emily Mayhew |
| ISBN | 1847922619 |
Wounded traces the journey made by a casualty from the battlefield to a hospital in Britain. It is a story told through the testimony of those who cared for him - stretcher bearers and medical officers, surgeons and chaplains, orderlies and nurses - from the aid post in the trenches to the casualty clearing...
| Author | Adam Hochschild |
| ISBN | 0618257470 |
Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless...
| Author | David Miles |
| ISBN | 0753817993 |
Who are the the English, the Irish, the Scots and the Welsh? - a ragbag of migrants, reflecting thousands of years of continuity and change. Now scientific techniques can explore this complex genetic jigsaw: ancient Britons and Saxons, Celts and Romans, Vikings and Normans, and the more recent migrations...
