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The shelter of each other.(Island: Collected Stories by Alistair MacLeod)(Book Review)
Island." Collected Stories, by Alistair MacLeod; Vintage, 2002, $24.95.
LIKE THE ELF-QUEEN Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings, the Highland Scots can surely say, "Through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat."
The first age of the Highlander was that of the old clan life that was crushed at Culloden in 1746. The second was the Misery Time, the hundred years or so of being "cleared" and starved and dispersed. The third has been that of the expatriate generations in places like Australia and Canada.
Sealed in their Gaelic oral tradition, the Highlanders themselves had little need of a bookish literature, but two great writers were to ...
- `Island: The Collected Stories,' by Alistair MacLeod; W.W. Norton.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Salij, Marta February 28, 2001 700+ words
...then the Information Age, but Cape Breton stayed an island of miners...an insider and an artist. Cape Breton has Alistair MacLeod. In 33 years, MacLeod, who grew up in Cape Breton and is a former professor of...
- Loyalists of Cape Breton.
- Magazine article from: The Loyalist Gazette Robert J. Morgan March 22, 1996 700+ words
...unknown group among the early settlers of Cape Breton. This is largely because their numbers...wielded in Sydney was destroyed when Cape Breton was annexed to Nova Scotia in 1820...played a key role in the settlement of Cape Breton between 1784 and 1800. County capitals...
- Cape Breton calls with Gaelic charm.(Travel)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Forristal, Linda Joyce July 3, 1999 700+ words
...of Scotland, but for simple beauty Cape Breton outrivals them all." - Alexander Graham Bell Cape Breton Island is far away from Washington but...years on the shores of Bras d'Or, Cape Breton's inland sea. When traveling to Newfoundland...
- An examination of the absence of established moose (Alces alces) populations in...
- Magazine article from: Alces Beazley, Karen Kwan, Helen Nette, Tony January 1, 2008 700+ words
...factors for the southeastern side of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia to investigate...concentration levels of molybdenum in the Cape Breton study area warrant further investigation...data. The model identified 43% of the Cape Breton study area as having a high-probability...
- Another night: Cape Breton stories true & short & tall.
- Magazine article from: Ethnologies January 1, 1999 700+ words
...Caplan first ventured onto the Island of Cape Breton. It seemed to be an island tailor made...change in his life. His first winter in Cape Breton was an unforgettable one not only for...something similar to the Foxfire series in a Cape Breton context. To make a long story short...
- Cape Breton's treasure is its people: No crowds will greet you in Cape Breton -...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 26, 2002 700+ words
...Special to The Christian Science Monitor CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA -- Everywhere I look in Cape Breton, I see blue. Somehow, patches of French...A full 700 miles northeast of Boston, Cape Breton boasts that it has some of the warmest...
- CAPE BRETON PUTS MORE SKID MARKS ON ISLES.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) December 24, 1990 700+ words
...row, all at the same scene. When the Cape Breton Oilers skated off with a 6-3 American...Oilers were remarkably similar. All Cape Breton had to do was skate for its dual triumphs...of pressure on the Islanders," said Cape Breton coach Don MacAdam. "I thought they...
- Moose on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: 20th century demographics and...
- Magazine article from: Alces Bridgland, James Nette, Tony Dennis, Charlie Quann, Derek January 1, 2007 700+ words
...1900s, moose were re-introduced to Cape Breton Island by the federal Park Service in...growth and exploitation of moose on Cape Breton in the latter 20'h Century, the evolution...emerging management issues. Key words: Cape Breton Island, cooperative management, moose...
Source: HighBeam Research, The shelter of each other.(Island: Collected Stories by Alistair...