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Showing posts with label Alec Finlay. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Next event: 28th September. Ken Cockburn: the Road North


RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING

The Road North
Ken Cockburn & Alec Finlay
www.theroadnorth.co.uk


Selected Bibliography

Back Roads to Far Towns: Bashô’s Travel Journal
Translated by Cid Corman and Kamaike Susumu, illustrated by Hide Oshiro (1968)

Makoto Ueda: Basho and his interpreters : selected hokku with commentary (1992)

Earl Miner: Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Basho and Sora, Johnson and Boswell (1996)


Samuel Johnson: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)

James Boswell: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

Dorothy Wordsworth: Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 (1874)

John Henry Dixon: Gairloch in North-West Ross-shire (1886)

Seton Gordon:
Highways & Byways in the Western Highlands (1935, new edition 1995)
Highways & Byways in the Central Highlands (1949, new edition 1995)

Norman Shaw et al: Nemeton (2011)


Thomas Kinsella: The Tain, translated from the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge (1970)


www.themodernantiquarian.com
Offers “news, information, images, folklore & weblinks on the ancient sites across the UK, Ireland and Europe”



KC, 25/9/11
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and a few more...

the Scottish Poetry Library

Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie: a Hypertext Journal, following Pope & Guthrie's journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, in the footsteps of the writers Boswell & Johnson.

An Itinerary to Natsuo Basho's "Narrow Road to the Deep North