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Item Details
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FROM THE ALLEGHENIES TO THE HEBRIDES
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
| By: |
Margaret Fay Shaw |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1841580066 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781841580067 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
20 July, 1999 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
In her early teens Margaret Fay Shaw was dispatched from Alleghenies to stay near Glasgow. After studying music abroad she returned to live on South Uist, an island barely changed from earlier centuries. In this autobiography Margaret Fay Shaw's collections and photography capture a vanished world. |
| Synopsis: |
Margaret Fay Shaw's life spans a century of change. In her early teens she was dispatched from the idyllic surroundings of the Alleghenies to stay with a distant cousin near Glasgow. It was here that her love of Scotland was born. After studying music at New York and Paris, she returned to live for six years with two sisters in a cottage on South Uist. Life on South Uist at this time had barely changed from earlier centuries, and the island contained a repository of Gaelic lore and song. Margaret Fay Shaw's collections of this archive and her photography capture a world vanished from the Hebrides. Her autobiography is also a plea in defence of a Gaelic culture and world that is disappearing. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Birlinn Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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