Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.06.2019
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
306
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/14/1.8 cm
Gewicht
434 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5370-928-0
Where the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, opens to the sea, the Isle of Arran rises in bens and glens, heather and story, in all seasons. Arran stays with you long. In Arran of the Bens, the Glens and the Brave, Mackenzie MacBride offers a Scottish poetry collection that reads like a walk: vivid place-notes, weather, rock and shoreline, shaped into Celtic verse with a singer's ear. Ballad rhythms meet devotional hush, with sharp coastal detail that makes the island's geology and history tangible. Part scotland travel writing, part celtic verse anthology, these poems celebrate Arran landscapes and the character of a people, moving easily from quiet natural observation to flashes of Scottish heritage and folklore. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. MacBride's work sits in the long tradition of Scottish song and romantic description that speaks to Robert Burns poetry fans and Walter Scott readers, while keeping its feet firmly on the historic Scottish Highlands and islands. It is an ideal gift book for Scotland: to remember a journey, to plan the next, or to bring home the feel of highland bens and glens in a single volume. For readers of nature poetry, the book offers salt air, mountain light, and the intimate sense of a lived landscape; for classic-literature collectors, it is a distinctive regional title that honours Scotland's cultural memory.
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