Tag: Highland

Free Download A. Kim Clark, "Gender, State, and Medicine in Highland Ecuador: Modernizing Women, Modernizing the State, 1895-1950"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0822962098 | PDF | pages: 270 | 1.4 mb
In 1921 Matilde Hidalgo became the first woman physician to graduate from the Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador. Hidalgo was also the first woman to vote in a national election and the first to hold public office.

Free Download Frank Gilfeather, "Steve Paterson: Confessions of a Highland Hero"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1841588369, 1841589160 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.6 mb
Steve Paterson was set for fame and stardom with Manchester United in the 1970s, but from the age of sixteen he became gripped by an addiction to gambling before descending into alcoholism and debt. He became a soccer mercenary in Hong Kong, Australia and Japan, but his gambling and ruinous lifestyle followed him everywhere. Despite his personal problems, Paterson became a successful football manager, first in the Highland League and then, leading Inverness Caledonian Thistle all the way to the brink of promotion to the Premier League before taking the reins at Aberdeen Football Club from which he was sacked as his drinking and gambling escalated. By then, he had spent more than GBP1m on gambling over a 30 years period and racked up thousands of pounds worth of debt. In November 2008 Paterson decided to confront his addictions and booked into the famous Sporting Chance Clinic in Hampshire. He has now turned his life around and today works as a social worker helping youngsters in the north of Scotland. This candid and brutally honest memoir recounts the heady days of footballing success, twinned with the devastating hubris of his addictive personality.It is a heart-rending and insightful account of one of the most fascinating players and managers in the Scottish game.

Free Download Stuart McHardy, "School of the Moon: The Highland Cattle-raiding Tradition"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1841583006 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 0.6 mb

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Free Download Eric Richards, "Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances"
English | ISBN: 1902930134 | 2000 | 352 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year AwardIn April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable homicide for his treatment of the Highlanders of Strathnaver, the most northerly part of the Scottish highlands. In the process of evicting them from their ancient lands he had allegedly burnt houses, destroyed mills and wrecked pastures. There is perhaps no more hated nor reviled individual in Highland history. This outstanding new book, however, gives a balanced assessment of the man, a vivid account of a terrible episode in Highland history, and a riveting narration of a tormented life. Richard’s book is an account of Sellar’s life and times: that he was ruthless, avaricious, devious and cruel is beyond question. But his letters suggest a streak of idealism: did he really believe that the displaced highlanders would be better off, better fed, educated and housed in their new homes? Have the Highlands in the end become more productive and prosperous? In the course of his fast-moving and gripping account, Eric Richards looks carefully at these vexed questions.