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  • Genre:TRAVEL
  • SubGenre:Europe / Great Britain
  • Language:English
  • Pages:196
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798991332101

From Sagebrush to Heather

by Ken Pollard

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Overview
Two married couples from Idaho, sharing a rental sedan with luggage and musical instruments, toured select areas of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in late summer of 2022. Whisky distilleries, medieval castles and chapels, a towering broch, Neolithic standing stones, Lewis chessmen, and Dolly the Sheep were among the sites they saw. As American musicians, they played Scottish tunes outdoors in Fort William, in a guest house on Skye, around a fire-pit on the Isle of Lewis, and, perhaps mistakenly, in the carpark at Stirling Castle, where they were caught on film by a local photographer. The next day, they were barred from entering Edinburgh Castle by the British Government. Shortly before returning to the US, they were also caught on film by a Norwegian Public Broadcasting (NRK) news crew on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh outside St. Giles Cathedral, though without instruments in hand. Is the culture in Idaho so different from that in Scotland? Perhaps. This book is an attempt to explain those events from the travelers' perspective.
Description

The text describes a 16-day trip from Idaho to Scotland and back in 2022, as the Covid pandemic was receding. Over 140 color photos, most in 4"x6" format. Descriptions & photos of three Islay distilleries (Lagavulin, Ardbeg, and Laphroaig). Notes of Scottish beers sampled along the way. Scenes from castles and the western isles. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Map

Introduction 

Prologue 

Day 1 & 2, Nampa to Edinburgh

Day 3, Edinburgh to Tarbert (Kintyre) 

Day 4, Tarbert to Islay

Day 5, Islay, morning

Day 5, Islay, afternoon & evening 

Day 6, Islay to Ft. William

Day 7, Ft. William to Skye

Day 8, Isle of Skye

Day 9, Skye to Lewis

Day 10, Isle of Lewis

Day 11, Stornoway

Day 12, Lewis to Tyndrum (Glencoe) 

Day 13, Tyndrum to Stirling

Day 14, Stirling to Edinburgh

Day 15, Edinburgh to London

Day 16, London to Nampa

Epilogue

About the author

Ken Pollard opened the Owyhee Mountain Fiddle Shop in 1996 in Nampa, Idaho, and is currently working at the bench almost every day. Please feel free to visit the web-page at www.owyheemountainfiddle.com. He has played fiddle for contra dances and Scottish Country Dances at various venues in the Pacific Northwest for the past 20-some years. He is also active as a teacher of Scottish Country Dance in the Boise area. His formal educational background is physics, earning a B.S. and an M.S. from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and a Ph.D. in bioengineering (medical imaging) from the University of Washington in Seattle. Aside from his doctoral dissertation, this is his first book.

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