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How many people have looked at a map of the Highlands and been intrigued and yet, at the same time, felt excluded by the wealth and strangeness of the place names recorded? Reading the Gaelic Landscape is a must for anyone who is interested in the Scottish Highlands and its anci…
How many people have looked at a map of the Highlands and been intrigued and yet, at the same time, felt excluded by the wealth and strangeness of the place names recorded? 'Reading the Gaelic Landscape' is a must for anyone who is interested in the Scottish Highlands and its an…
"How many people have looked at a map of the Highlands and been intrigued and yet, at the same time, felt excluded by the wealth and strangeness of the place names recorded? Reading the Gaelic Landscape is a must for anyone who is interested in the Scottish Highlands and its anc…
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.
What is the 'meaning' of names like Coosa and Tallapoosa? Who named the Alabama and Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers? How are Cheaha and Conecuh and Talladega pronounced? How did Opelika and Tuscaloosa get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by …
This is a revised edition with a foreward, appendix, and index by James B. McMillan.
