West Over Sea, DDC Pochin Mould
“Life in the Outer Hebrides with the legendary and historical background”. 1953, Oliver and Boyd. From the dustjacket: This book…
Category: Bibliography
Bibliography: Salmon and Sea Trout Angling on Lewis and Harris (David SD Jones)
New to our bookshop are some numbered and signed copies of a recent limited publication by David SD Jones entitled…
The History of the Mackenzies
Alexander Mackenzie published his comprehensive genealogical History of the Mackenzies in 1879 and reissued it in 1894 with a considerable…
Families of Lewis by Mac Gille Chaluim
A series of articles published in the Stornoway Gazette in the 1950s and 60s by “Mac Gille Chaluim”, Rev William…
Lewis in History and Legend: the West Coast
By Bill Lawson (Birlinn July 2008). ISBN 9781 84158 36816. A new publication in the format of Bill’s earlier books…
A Brief Record of the Church in Uig
by John Macleod OBE DL MA (1928-1998), of Carishader. Published by Comann Eachdraidh Uig in 2001. ISBN 0 903960 73…
The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles
by Ian Armit. Edinburgh University Press 1996. ISBN 0 7486 0640 8. A comprehensive look at early and recent (to…
Twenty Years of Hebridean Memories
by Emily Macdonald, niece of Lord Leverhulme and wife of Dolly Doctor. Written in 1939 and privately published in 1965.…
The Sporting Estates of the Outer Hebrides, Past and Present
by David SD Jones, February 2008. An illustrated history of the sporting estates, including Morsgail, Scaliscro, Grimersta, Uig & Hamnaway,…
Lewis: A History of the Island
Donald Macdonald Savage 1978, 2004 ISBN 1 904246 08 7 A comprehensive history of the Isle of Lewis from the…
The Lewis Land Struggle: Na Gaisgich
Joni Buchanan Acair 1996 ISBN 0 86152 166 8 A study of the crofter’s uprisings in Lewis as they resisted…
Diary 1851
John Munro Mackenzie, Chamberlain of the Lews. Acair 1994. ISBN 0 86152 908 1/86152 923 5. John Munro Mackenzie (grandson of…
Uig, a Hebridean Parish, parts I & II
HA Moisley MSc & Members of the Geographical Field Group Glasgow and Nottingham Universities 1960 A very detailed survey of…
Tales and Traditions of the Lews
Donald Macdonald Birlinn 2004 ISDN 781841580555 Donald Macdonald (1891-1961), “Dolly Doctor”, was a native of Stornoway and Uig who practiced medicine in…