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1 online resource |
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Preface ; 1: Introduction ; 2: A Brief History of Gaelic in Scotland; 3: Mapping the Scottish Highlands; 4: A Brief Guide to Gaelic Grammar and Pronunciation; 5: Place-name Classifications-Revealing Layers in the Landscape; 6: Landform and Hydrology; 7: Landcover and Ecology; 8: Land Use; 9: Climate, Season, Sound and Time; 10: The Cultural Landscape; 11: Adjectives; 12: Reading the Landscape through Place-names; Further Reading; Selected Bibliography; Index of Generic Nouns; Index of Adjectives and Adjectival Nouns; Biographical note. |
| Summary |
This is a comprehensive field guide to the Gaelic landscape that helps people read and understand the highland landscape through place names, as places, ecology, and landscape history are all given a Gaelic dimension through place naming. |
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Names, Geographical -- Scottish Gaelic.
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Names, Geographical -- Scotland -- Highlands.
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Names, Geographical -- Scottish Gaelic.
(OCoLC)fst02021403
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Names, Geographical. (OCoLC)fst01032409
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Scotland -- Highlands.
(OCoLC)fst01242015
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| Added Title |
Leughadh Aghaidh Na Tire |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Moireach, Iain, 1938- Reading the Gaelic landscape. Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland : Whittles Publishing, 2014 9781849951005 1849951004 (DLC) 2014407093 (OCoLC)861207906 |
| ISBN |
9781849952088 (electronic book) |
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1849952086 (electronic book) |
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