Mhòr and More Gaelic home and belonging

home and belonging

This lavishly illustrated book is a fascinating record of the shipping services linking the island of Lewis with the mainland of Scotland

moments of unexpected beauty and reflection

talks and lectures and  as well as pursuing her writing and painting where she lives near Wigtown

but which helped the community to survive and indeed underpinned a rich and distinctive Gaelic culture

Mhòr and More Gaelic home and belongingHill walks in Uist by Martin Marguiles American Martin Margulies first visited South Uist in October 1987, drawn there by its remoteness and its Gaelic culture. On the final afternoon of the visit, he climbed halfway up its largest hill (Beinn Mhor, which lends its name to the title), and was "hooked." Now, a quarter century later, he has climbed not only that hill multiple times but just about every other hill on the archipelago, and explored