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The Hebrides: An Aerial View of a Cultural Landscape

by Angus, Etc MacDonald
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781841583150
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Birlinn Publishers
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: GBP 30.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1726 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Photoessays & Documentaries, Europe / Great Britain, and Subjects & Themes / Aerial

The Hebrides of Scotland - around 500 diverse islands - form the north-western Atlantic fringe of Europe. This book surveys the cultural landscape of this dramatically beautiful, complex and conflicted area, with emphasis on what may be interpreted through aerial photography. Its main themes are the mutual influences of people and environment, and the recent history and current issues in the area. Mobile maritime cultures flourished throughout the Hebrides from prehistoric times, including Mesolithic builders of wheelhouses, coracle-borne monastic travellers, Norse in longships and Lords of the Isles in birlinns. A prominent feature of the recent history of the Hebrides has been depopulation.

The history and heartbreak of this phenomenon, experienced in differing degrees in rural areas throughout Europe from the mid-18th century, is clearly shown in aerial photographs and discussed in the accompanying text. Today's Hebridean landscapes have been heavily modified by various forms of human land use; current land-management options and controversies are also discussed in the context of photographs that draw attention to the various issues involved.

MacDonald, Angus: - Angus MacDonald has lived all his life in the highlands and is steeped in their tales. He served in his local regiment, the Queen's Own Highlanders.

A serial entrepreneur he was awarded the Spear's UK entrepreneur of the year award for 2017, building businesses in publishing, renewable energy, recycling and education.

He founded The Caledonian Challenge and runs The Moidart Trust, as well as being co-owner of The Highland Bookshop in Fort William.

MacDonald: - Photograph by Robin Gillanders. Angus and Patricia Macdonald have collaborated for over twenty years on the record and interpretation of the history and current state of the environment and of cultural landscapes, using aerial photography as the main tool. Their partnership, Aerographica, works from a sound basis of research and maintains a substantial archive of relevant aerial images. They are the authors, jointly or singly, of ten books, five of which are based on aerial photography. Angus and Patricia Macdonald and their Aerographica partnership are based in Edinburgh and East Lothian.

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