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Off in a Boat
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1998
Summary
In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his brother John, he set off on a three-month voyage around Inner Hebrides.
The boat had outlived its first youth, and its engine was somewhat cranky; she went tolerably under sail. These are not high recommendations, but for Gunn, and at times his fellow voyagers, the vessel was an argosy of freedom, of adventure and misadventure–for they were fairly inexperienced sailors, and the waters of the region are by no means placid.
Gunn was a Scots nationalist in a sense that goes far beyond the political, even though he thought that an independent Scotland was the only proper basis for a reasonable civilization. He was by nature poetic, uplifted or cast down by changing skies, seascapes, and shores. His descriptions of those things, including their moods, are remarkably evocative. And he is also a passionate historian of his country, exalting its possibilities, anathematizing its shortcomings. The book is illustrated with Daisy Gunn's photographs taken on the voyage, which are palpably amateur but wonderfully telling.
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Copyright year
1998
ISBN-Print
978-0-941533-98-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-1861-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
349
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Foreword No access
Contents No access
I. How not to Buy a Boat No access Pages 13 - 37
II. Fitting Out No access Pages 38 - 60
III. Cutting the Painter No access Pages 61 - 72
IV. Out to Sea No access Pages 73 - 85
V. And it did Blow No access Pages 86 - 113
VI. How we Arrived at Eigg No access Pages 114 - 125
VII. Egga, Ego, Ardegga, Egea, Eiggie, or Eigg No access Pages 126 - 149
VIII. To Arisaig and the Sands of Morar No access Pages 150 - 162
IX. Round Ardnamurchan No access Pages 163 - 168
X. An t'Eilean Muilleach No access Pages 169 - 181
XI. Round the Caliach No access Pages 182 - 192
XII. The Ross of Mull No access Pages 193 - 203
XIII. Hii, Hy, I, la, 10, Y, Yi ... or Iona No access Pages 204 - 238
XIV. The Torranan Rocks No access Pages 239 - 255
XV. Oban No access Pages 256 - 268
XVI. Glen Etive, 'where she 'builded her bridal hold' No access Pages 269 - 283
XVII. Landlord Rampant No access Pages 284 - 303
XVIII. Farewell to Deirdre's Garden No access Pages 304 - 309
XIX. 'I dislike being long at a time' No access Pages 310 - 319
XX. Homeward Bound No access Pages 320 - 330
XXI. Liberty and Property No access Pages 331 - 340
