John MacLeod (1966–)
Auteur de Highlanders: A History of the Gaels
John MacLeod est John Macleod (1). Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent John Macleod, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de John MacLeod
Highlander 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- John MacLeod
- Date de naissance
- 1966
- Sexe
- male
- Pays (pour la carte)
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Lochaber, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Isle of Lewis, Scotland, UK
- Études
- University of Edinburg (MA, Philosophy)
- Professions
- journalist
author
newspaper columnist - Courte biographie
- [from Books from Scotland website]
Born in Lochaber in 1966, John Macleod is the son of the Highland manse. After graduation he worked for BBC Highland in Inverness and currently writes a column for Glasgow's Herald newspaper. His work has featured in the Scottish and English press and in 1991 he won the trophy for Scottish Journalist of the Year. He lives in Harris in the Outer Hebrides with his small dog, Smudge.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 315
- Popularité
- #74,965
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 39
- Langues
- 1
The poignancy of this sliver of history moved me nearly to tears. I appreciated the author's deep research into all aspects and also his charts and list of men, where they were from down to street addresses, and what finally happened to them. Many Gaelic-language poems were written: the author included two or three of the better ones but nothing of the quality of Hopkins' "Wreck of the Deutschland". I feel the whole book was a labor of love.
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