A Hebridean journey : the travel diary of Isabell Burton MacKenzie
Jones, Alyne2020
Books, Manuscripts
In 1912, the Highland Home Industries sent Isabell Burton MacKenzie on a mission to the Western Isles of Scotland, as their first organiser. She left her home, Kilcoy castle, travelling to live in the remote Hebridean islands whose communities, bound by close ties of kindred, hardship, religion and shared dangers, were rarely penetrated by strangers. At a time when the world was changing irrevocably she captured everyday island life with her Vest Pocket Kodak Camera, her exquisite pen and ink drawings and her pertinent, if quirky, observations, all made possible by her command of Gaelic. The brutal Highland Clearances are within living memory and the horsemen from the Hebrides are soon to serve in the First World War. at a time of social and political turbulence, her diary reveals a vanishing world.
Main title:
A Hebridean journey : the travel diary of Isabell Burton MacKenzie / Alyne E. Jones.
Author:
Jones, Alyne, author
Imprint:
Rochester : Hamilton House Publishing, 2020.
Collation:
1 volume
ISBN:
9780995720565 (pbk)
Dewey class:
914.1140483914.11404
LC class:
DA880.H4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2790318