Classic Reprint Series: Highland Legends
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2015
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Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung. In this excerpt, the author reflects on a journey through the moorlands towards Grantown, the capital of Strathspey, accompanied by two friends. The sun shines brightly, yet the landscape--characterized by brown heaths and bogs--seems uninviting and devoid of conversation. However, the presence of grey, ghostly pine stocks emerging from the peat-mosses, alongside tufts of cotton grass and vibrant ranunculuses, sparks the imagination. This imagery evokes thoughts of the ancient forests that once covered Scotland, transforming the seemingly dull scenery into a rich tapestry of historical reflection. The author emphasizes the power of companionship and shared experiences in enhancing intellectual enjoyment, suggesting that even the most unremarkable surroundings can inspire meaningful dialogue and contemplation. The narrative captures the essence of exploration, both of the landscape and the mind, as the friends embark on their walk, illustrating how nature can connect us to the past and ignite our creativity. Forgotten Books, the publisher, specializes in preserving historical works, ensuring that the original format is maintained while addressing imperfections in the text.…
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- Title
- Classic Reprint Series: Highland Legends
- Author
- Thomas Dick Lauder Bart
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 133051887X
- ISBN 13
- 9781330518878
Aassociated with him in his pilgrimage, will not be much inclined to wish them absent in such parts of the way; and as I do not think that either his moral or his physical digestion will be in any degree impaired by society, I am quite sure that his intellectual enjoyment will be thereby much increased.
My own experience convinced me of the truth of this one fine autumnal morning, when, in company with two friends, I left the romantic valley of the Findhorn, to cross the moorlands towards Grantown, a village which may be called the capital Of Strathspey. The sun that rose upon us, as we took our staves in hand to begin that day's walk, had continued to display a brighter and merrier countenance than any, perhaps, which I had ever seen showing face within the precincts of this vapour girt island of ours. Yet vain were his friendly efforts to throw a glow of cheerfulness over the brown heaths and the black plashy bogs almost entirely covering the tame unmeaning undulations Of the country before us. A scene apparently less calculated to furnish food for remark or conversation, can hardly well be conceived. But when the imagination is not altogether asleep, a very trifling hint will set it a working; and so it was, that the innumerable grey, ghastly-looking pine stocks Of other years, that were everywhere seen pointing out of the peat-mosses, from amidst tufts of the waving cotton grass, and wiry rushes, and gaudy ranunculuses, quickly carried our minds back to former ages by a natural chain of connection, filled them with magnificent ideal pictures of those interminable forests which completely covered Scotland during the earlier periods of its history, and immediately furnished us with a subject for talk.
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