A summer in Skye, Volume 1 (of 2) (Registro nro. 117511)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
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| Classification number | DA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith, Alexander, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1830?-1867 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A summer in Skye, Volume 1 (of 2) |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-09-01 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Al Haines |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "A summer in Skye, Volume 1 (of 2)" by Alexander Smith is a travelogue and reflective essay collection written in the mid-19th century. It traces a summer journey from Edinburgh through the Highlands and western lochs to the Isle of Skye, blending vivid nature writing with history, art, and social observation. Readers can expect lyrical landscapes, portraits of towns and people, and opinionated meditations on Scottish identity and culture. The beginning of the book sets the narrator in heat-stricken Edinburgh, longing for escape and praising the restorative idleness of the Highlands while advocating light, simple travel. He sketches an expansive portrait of the city—its literature and critics, Scott’s outsized legacy, show-stopping beauty by day and night, the grandeur and squalor of the Old Town, intellectual pretensions (with barbed shots at Jeffrey), and the seasonal rhythms of art exhibitions and the General Assembly’s pageantry. The tone is essayistic and digressive, moving from civic pride and social satire to the spiritual spell of the past that saturates Edinburgh’s streets. The journey then unfolds: Stirling’s views and the Wallace Monument spark reflections on nationality; Doune and its castle; Callander, the Pass of Leny, Loch Achray, and the Trosachs to Loch Katrine; on to Inversneyd and Loch Lomond, the “Cobbler,” and the steep solitude of Glencroe; St Catherine’s and a humorous coachman; Inverary and Duniquoich; Loch Awe, Kilchurn Castle, and Ben Cruachan; and the bustle and rain of Oban. A swift run up the Caledonian route brings Fort William (with a visit to the famed distiller “Long John”), Loch Ness, and Inverness, capped by a sunset reverie on Culloden Moor. Finally, arrangements are made to reach Skye, and the section closes with a miserable pre-dawn coach ride to Dingwall. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Alexander Strahan, 1865 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Skye, Island of (Scotland) -- Description and travel |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/summerinskye01smit">https://archive.org/details/summerinskye01smit</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/summerinskye02smit">https://archive.org/details/summerinskye02smit</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76786">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76786</a> |
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