Our Journey to the Hebrides. Joseph Pennell

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       Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell

      Our Journey to the Hebrides

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066157791

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       ILLUSTRATIONS.

       IN THE HIGHLANDS.

       EDINBURGH,

       GLASGOW

       LOCH LOMOND.

       TARBET,

       CAIRNDOW,

       GLENCOE,

       BALLACHULISH.

       OBAN—

       TOBERMORY

       SALEN,

       ULVA

       KINLOCH

       BUNESSAN

       ON THE ISLANDS.

       "DUNARA CASTLE,"

       HARRIS,

       TARBERT.

       SKYE,

       DUNVEGAN.

       STRUAN

       SLIGACHAN.

       TO THE EAST COAST, AND BACK AGAIN.

       INVERNESS,

       NAIRN,

       ELGIN

       BUCKIE,

       BANFF

       FRASERBURGH.

       ABERDEEN,

       MONTROSE,

       ARBROATH,

       Select Books

       St. Nicholas Magazine

       The Century

       The Century Dictionary.

       Belles Lettres.

       History.

       Biography.

       Theology and Philosophy.

       Travel.

       Miscellaneous

       Books for Children.

       THE CAMEO SERIES

       " UNWIN'S NOVEL SERIES. "

PREFACE.

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      The greater part of "Our Journey to the Hebrides" was published originally in Harper's Magazine. When it appeared it was severely criticised, and we were taken to task for not discovering in Scotland and the Scotch what has been made the fashion to find there—for not giving second-hand descriptions, which are the stock in trade of Scotch guide-books, whether romantic or real; in a word, for not staying at home and manufacturing our journey in the British Museum.

      It is gradually dawning upon us that this is what is wanted by the majority of critics. To go to a country and tell what really happened to you—to dare to say, for the information of future cyclers or travellers, that one small piece of road is bad, that on one day out of ten or fifteen it rained, that at one small hotel you were uncomfortable or turned away, is enough to make the critic declare that you have found everything in that country to be awry. This was our fate when we attempted to describe the most enjoyable trip we ever made—our ride across France. We have no hesitation in saying that our trip to Scotland was the most miserable. We undertook to walk, owing to the misrepresentations of people who we do not believe ever