Skye High

by Pearson, Hesketh; Kingsmill, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9781585790302
• ISBN10: 1585790303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Akadine Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Journey Planned	13	(6)
The Journey Begins	19	(3)
The Street Fight Test	22	(2)
Immortality	24	(2)
Scotland and Whisky	26	(2)
Scottish Wars of Independence	28	(2)
A Spring Day at the Bridge of Allan	30	(3)
Hazlitt at Stirling Castle	33	(4)
Along the Canongate	37	(6)
Hazlitt in Edinburgh	43	(2)
Evening in Edinburgh	45	(1)
The Route to St. Andrews	46	(3)
Are Poets Born?	49	(5)
St. Andrews	54	(5)
Happiness	59	(6)
The Route to Aberdeen	65	(2)
The Glories of Aberdeen	67	(2)
The Top of the Tap	69	(3)
Grey and Green	72	(3)
How to Yarrow	75	(1)
Shakespeare in Scotland	76	(5)
Pearson Rebukes Johnson	81	(3)
Elgin-on-the-Sea	84	(3)
Sportsmen	87	(3)
Finnan Haddock	90	(3)
More Yarrowing	93	(2)
Inverness	95	(3)
Scottish Nationalism	98	(2)
Another Refuge for Pearson	100	(2)
The Oldest Inhabitant	102	(4)
Desert Island Literature	106	(4)
Johnson on Scenery	110	(4)
Fisher Folk	114	(3)
Suasions and Reasons	117	(1)
Napoleon Bonaparte	118	(3)
Two Memories	121	(3)
Highland Hospitality	124	(4)
Mam Rat...	128	(5)
Comments	133	(3)
Glenelg	136	(2)
Awkward Moments	138	(5)
Worst Walks	143	(5)
The Lion and the Lizard	148	(1)
A Clergyman	149	(4)
Persons One would wish to have Met	153	(4)
`Sir Sawney'	157	(8)
Sterry	165	(4)
Coirechatachan	169	(5)
The Coolins	174	(3)
Odd Occurrences	177	(3)
Travel Books	180	(3)
Wuckoo	183	(1)
The Part Greater than the Whole	184	(3)
Dunvegan Castle	187	(3)
Property and Sex	190	(4)
The House of Stuart	194	(2)
Great Men stay at Home	196	(5)
Lloyd George and Baldwin	201	(4)
The Times Obituaries	205	(4)
A Difference of Opinion	209	(4)
Yarrowing in Earnest	213	(1)
Mull - and Coll	213	(5)
The Drama of the Future	218	(2)
On Universes	220	(3)
Drink	223	(4)
Auchinleck	227	(5)
Boswell's Home	232	(2)
Sheep's Head	234	(1)
`Not Without Honour'	235	(3)
The Clan Spirit	238	(1)
Interest in People	239	(3)
Scotland's Financial Wizard	242	(1)
Sherlock Holmes	243	(3)
Loch Lomond	246	(6)
Pitlochry	252	(3)
Gullane - The Travellers' Goal	255	(2)
Death Beds	257	(3)
Oliver Cromwell	260	(5)
Jane Welsh Carlyle	265	(1)
Hazlitt at Renton	266	(6)
The Return Journey	272	(2)
Boswell's Bedside Book	274	(4)
The Outline of Ogden	278	(3)
In the Pulpit	281	(2)
Parents and Masters	283	(3)
Boswell Preaches	286	(2)
The Efficacy of Prayer	288	(5)
`Foxes have Holes'	293	(1)
The Efficacy of Food	294	(2)
Table Manners	296	(3)
A Vacant Chair	299	(3)
Friendships	302	(2)
Dining Out	304	(2)
On Writing Biography	306	(4)
In Retrospect	310