Off in a BoatHis ability scrupulously to evoke the landscapes and the peoples of the Highlands, his blending together of myth and reality and his wide-ranging imagination make Neil Gunn the most important Scottish novelist of the 20th century. --Trevor Royle, The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature |
Contents
How not to Buy a Boat page | 13 |
Fitting Out | 38 |
Cutting the Painter | 61 |
Out to Sea | 73 |
And it did Blow | 86 |
How we Arrived at Eigg | 114 |
Egga Ego Ardegga Egea Eiggie or Eigg | 126 |
To Arisaig and the Sands of Morar | 150 |
Hii Hy I Ia Io Y Yi or Iona | 204 |
The Torranan Rocks | 239 |
Oban | 256 |
Glen Etive where she builded her bridal hold | 269 |
Landlord Rampant | 284 |
Farewell to Deirdres Garden | 304 |
I dislike being long at a time | 310 |
Homeward Bound | 320 |
Round Ardnamurchan | 163 |
An tEilean Muilleach | 169 |
Round the Caliach | 182 |
The Ross of Mull | 193 |
Liberty and Property | 331 |
The Last Trump | 341 |
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