num_pages: 346
description: One of the greatest travelers in Scotland, Martin Martin was a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, and a mine of information on custom, tradition and life. Martin Martin's wrote before the Jacobite rebellions changed the way of life of the Highlander irrevocably. The volume includes the earliest account of St Kilda, first published in 1697 and Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles', account written in 1549 which presents a record of a pastoral visit to islands still coping with the aftermath of the fall of the Lords of the Isles.
language: English
title: A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Circa 1695: A Voyage to St Kilda
titlecomplete: A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Circa 1695: A Voyage to St Kilda
characters: Sir James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute, James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Allan Macdonald of Moidart, Sir Norman Macleod, Sir Hugh Campbell of Caddell, Roderick Dhu MacNeil, Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Rev. John Campbel, Roderick the Imposter, Malcolm Campbell, Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet, Dòmhnall Gormeson, James Macdonald of Capstil, Martin Martin, Neil Beaton, Allan MacDonald of Morar, Alexander Cooper, Donald Monro, Daniel Morison, Sir Robert Sibbald, Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney, Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange, Donald MacGillcolm, Sir Donald Macdonald, 4th Baronet of Sleat, Finn mac Cumhaill, Saint Columba, Lauchlin Mackinnon
genres: History, Scotland, Nonfiction, Travel
ratings_count: 26
places: Oronsay, Argyll, Scotland, Western Isles, Scotland, Benbecula, Western Isles, Scotland, Orkney, Scotland, Isle of Barra, Western Isles, Scotland, St. Kilda, Scotland, Isle of Bute, Scotland, Shetland, Scotland, Islay, Argyll, Scotland, Harris, Western Isles, Scotland, North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland, Ailsa Craig, Scotland, Isle of Gigha, Argyll, Scotland, Isle of Jura, Argyll, Scotland, Isle of Arran, Scotland, Isle of Eigg, Scotland, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland, South Uist, Western Isles, Scotland, Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland
publisher: Birlinn