Ailsa Craig: Its History and Natural History - Hardcover

Roderick Lawson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0952877112 ISBN 13: 9780952877110

Publisher: Portland P.,Troon, 1997

Synopsis

This eBook contains the Rev. R. Lawson's book of 1888 entitled “Ailsa Its History and Natural History”. This is one of many books written by the Rev. about his local area of the Carrick district in south-west Scotland.First published in 1888, ‘Ailsa Craig’ describes every aspect of this now uninhabited Scottish island. Roderick Lawson considers the possible origins of the name, and then goes on to relate the impressions of early visitors (including Daniel Defoe and John Keats). The author himself negotiates what Thomas Pennant in 1772 described as the ‘horrible’ and ‘alarming’ path to the ruined castle and tells of its history. In his lively and engaging style, Lawson also deals with the island as a place of work, as well as a haven for wildlife. This is a fascinating account of Ailsa Craig, and will be of interest to local and social historians, ornithologists, or indeed anyone who has ever looked across to ‘Paddy’s Milestone’ and wondered what stories it has to tell.At Dunure Publishing we are lovers of history and old books, and like to read these lovely old history books as eBooks and want to make them available to all. We thus do a high quality conversion from printed book into eBook doing manual page by page editing as we go. It is not a photocopy. It is not an automatic scan and print with many errors. Beware of other services which use an automatic conversion which will do a very poor job in particular with old books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Portland P.,Troon
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0952877112
• ISBN 13: 9780952877110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80