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Indeed, of old, few tourists ever thought for a moment of crossing the Moray Frith, but still fewer were even aware of the splendid scenery that is to be found, towards the western coasts of Inverness, Ross, and Sutherland shires, and the many interesting isles that lie beyond. Even still, there are many lakes, mountains, and localities of interest that remain but very partially explored in Coigeach, Assynt, and the internal regions of the county of Sutherland. It is but of late that the singular natural embrasures of the beautiful Loch Maree have been seen. Until within the last few years the rough country pathway was quite impassable for, wheeled carriages of every description, and even to the traveller, if a stranger, it was anything but pleasant. The consequence was that few indeed had ever seen it but the natives alone. Pennant and M’Culloch are, we believe, the only two scientific men who, until of late years, had visited it. But how rich the reward when attained! The mountains around the lake are of great height, and of a beautifully characterised and irregular outline. The shores present an immense variety of very interesting and romantic scenery. In fact, the mountains, and the loch, with its many islands, are among the finest specimens of the grand and picturesque to be found in Scotland. The Isle of Skye, likewise, lay in the same secluded state as to its natural curiosities until within the last half-century. I remember, myself, when the now far-famed Quiraing was but little seen and still less known.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44976612180268,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"alexander-solzhenitsyn","title":"Alexander Solzhenitsyn","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Russian Nobelist's major work, back in print for the centenary of World War I and the Russian Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has written \"a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history\" (Nina Krushcheva, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003cbr\u003eThe assassination of the tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, is reconstructed from the alienating viewpoints of historical witnesses. The sole voice of reason among the advisers to Tsar Nikolai II, Stolypin died at the hands of the anarchist Mordko Bogrov, and with him Russia's last hope for reform perished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAugust 1914\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first volume of Solzhenitsyn's epic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Red Wheel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; the second is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNovember 1916\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Each volume concentrates on a critical moment or \"knot\" in the history of the Russian Revolution.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44979392512300,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-constitution-of-the-united-states","title":"The Constitution of the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Constitution of the United States of America, with The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation. These three documents are the basis for our entire way of life. 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