Scotland's Untold Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scotland's Untold Stories write by Leonard Low. This book was released on 2020-12-07. Scotland's Untold Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No Longer Forgotten from History: The Lost Stories of Scotland Revealed. 30 fascinating stories from throughout Scottish history. Meet pirates, heroes, nobles and ordinary people: revealed through their letters, period news stories, and many other sources, combined with the author's personal observation, to fill in the details that have been forgotten by history. Read about the veteran of Bannockburn with a mechanised hand, and the cannibal family that terrorized Dundee. Find out how the people of Inverness changed history with a barrel of whisky, about Jack the Ripper's visit to a Scottish fishing village, and about a disastrous game of curling. Leonard Low explores the dark and mysterious, the tragic and the heroic, and brings the stories to life with his evocative writing. "Leonard Low brings dead history alive." -Dundee Courier
Call the Nurse
Call the Nurse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Call the Nurse write by Mary J. MacLeod. This book was released on 2013-04-04. Call the Nurse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends. In anecdotes that are by turns funny, sad, moving, and tragic, she recalls them all, the crofters and their laird, the boatmen and tradesmen, young lovers and forbidding churchmen. Against the old-fashioned island culture and the grandeur of mountain and sea unfold indelible stories: a young woman carried through snow for airlift to the hospital; a rescue by boat; the marriage of a gentle giant and the island beauty; a ghostly encounter; the shocking discovery of a woman in chains; the flames of a heather fire at night; an unexploded bomb from World War II; and the joyful, tipsy celebration of a ceilidh. Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland.
True Stories from the History of Scotland
True Stories from the History of Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook True Stories from the History of Scotland write by Scotland. Appendix. - History & Politics. - I.. This book was released on 1829. True Stories from the History of Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Scotland: Her Story
Scotland: Her Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scotland: Her Story write by Rosemary Goring. This book was released on 2019-09-19. Scotland: Her Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A landmark publication: the first-ever history of Scotland told from the perspective of women - the half of history that we forgot
Rizzio
Rizzio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rizzio write by Denise Mina. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Rizzio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history—the bloody assassination of David Rizzo private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the queen’s chambers in Holyrood Palace. On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the heavily pregnant Mary, Rizzio was stabbed fifty six times by a party of assassins. This breathtakingly tense novella dramatises the events that led up to that night, telling the infamous story as it has never been told before. A dark tale of sex, secrets and lies, Rizzio looks at a shocking historical murder through a modern lens—and explores the lengths that men and women will go to in their search for love and power. Rizzio is nothing less than a provocative and thrilling new literary masterpiece.
