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Reading the Gaelic landscape : Leughadh Aghaidh Na Tire / John Murray, Iain Moireach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, John, 1954 September 30- author.
- Moireach, Iain, 1938-2018, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Names, Geographical--Scottish Gaelic.
- Names, Geographical.
- Names, Geographical--Scotland--Highlands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Other Title:
- Leughadh Aghaidh Na Tire
- Place of Publication:
- Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland : Whittles Publishing, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-84995-208-6
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