By Gary McKay

£16.95

A book of stunning phographs of Jura's landscape accompanied by translations of the place names and information on the history and folklore of the island.

The first ever landscape photography book about the Isle of Jura with traditional stories translated from the original Gaelic. For the first time you can not only see the places on Jura that've you've read about, but hear the stories associated with them as told and re-told by generations of Díurachs.

Extract

'Strone - The headland

Today Strone (NR5050 6440 approx) is occupied by one lone house, but it was once the centre of some of Jura's most productive agricultural fields... Then, as now, disagreements would break out over farmland; the following story describes how one enclosure, near Strone, came to be known as Achadh na h-iorgail (Field of the quarrel)'.

Description

Paperback book.