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UK Holidays - My Heart's in the Lowlands: Ten Days in Bonny Scotland
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List Price: $13.99
Our Price: $11.19
Your Save: $ 2.80 ( 20% )
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Manufacturer: WaterBrook Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 941.47086092
EAN: 9781400072972
ISBN: 1400072972
Label: WaterBrook Press
Manufacturer: WaterBrook Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2007-02-20
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Release Date: 2007-02-20
Studio: WaterBrook Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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“Let’s go, shall we? Just the two of us?”
“I consider Galloway the country’s best kept secret: a place where time holds its breath, where ancient ruins dot the countryside in moss-covered splendor, where the natives are friendly and tourists are few, only because they don’t know what they’re missing.
“So, ten days in bonny Scotland. You’ll join me, aye?”
–from My Heart’s in the Lowlands
Best-selling novelist Liz Curtis Higgs invites you to take an entertaining journey through the South West of Scotland, known as Dumfries and Galloway. Without crossing the pond, changing time zones, or driving on the left side of the road, you’ll explore quaint villages and crumbling castles, old bookshops and charming tearooms in the delightful company of a guide whose love for this quiet nook of Scotland illuminates every page.
The verdant hills and glens of the Lowlands are awash in history, rich with culture, and peopled with engaging characters. The setting for Higgs’s acclaimed series of historical novels, Dumfries and Galloway also serves as her home away from home. Her decade-long love affair with this unique area of the world, combined with her award-winning storytelling skills, makes her the ideal armchair travel companion.
Warm, personal, and deeply evocative, My Heart’s in the Lowlands transports you to an unforgettable corner of Scotland that will lay claim to your heart forever.
Liz Curtis Higgs is the best-selling author of 25 books, including her Scottish historical novels Thorn in My Heart, Fair Is the Rose, Whence Came a Prince, and Grace in Thine Eyes. She is currently writing her fifth historical novel, Here Burns My Candle.
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Summary: Travelog
Comment: Had a wonderful adventure with Liz traveling through some of her favorite Lowlands of Scotland. You felt like she was truly involving you in her ventures. She is also going to provide an audio conference with several women who read her book so that we can speak with her personally. Thank you Liz for inspiring us all to make a journey in spirit.
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Summary: You take the low road, and I'll take the high road, and I'll get to Scotland afore yea
Comment: As always, Ms Higgs takes the reader on a delightful journey with her warm, friendly descriptive writing. In this offering, we actaully accompany her on a trip through the lands of her fiction books....(which I adore so much that I have TWO sets in case one I lend out doesn't make is't way back to me...)and where her characters live, and love, and fight for life.
For a wonderful journey this winter, snuggle up with a copy of this book.
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Summary: A Bonny Treat
Comment: Liz Curtis Higgs portrays her love of Scotland in this delightful book, as she takes the reader on a virtual tour of the beautiful country and its greatest charms. Higgs has always had a wonderful way of making her readers feel as though they're right there with her, and this book is no different: throughout it, she refers to you as her companion and even encourages you to buy a particular scarf on a shopping trip! Her charming wit and exuberant spirit shine throughout and held my attention the whole time: I couldn't get enough of her descriptions and stories of historical events!
Sprinkled throughout the book are beautiful lines from all her Scottish novels and quotes from the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Vivid black and white drawings accompany her descriptions and serve to further breath life into the experience. This book is a new favorite for me and I recommend it to everyone! Enjoy, lads and lassies :)
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Summary: very disapointed
Comment: It was my fault, as I did not pay attention to the description. I was sooo excited that she had written another Scotish historical fiction, that I just ordered it.
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Summary: A Wonderful Imaginary Road Trip through SW Scotland
Comment: This is a very unique yet enjoyable book. The author writes to the reader as a personal friend, invited to accompany her on a 10-day vacation rambling through the Galloway region of Scotland (the setting for some of her novels). The author draws upon her extensive knowledge and research of the region, as well as her personal travels, to take the reader along on a detailed journey, including packing bags, airline flights, car rentals, road conditions, language idioms, money, etc. on an imaginary trip through the sights and attractions of the area. The reader gets to vicariously meet people and see sights along the way, including experiencing jet lag, attending a local church, eating in wayside nooks, shopping, etc. and encounter Scotland "off the beaten path" as only a well-traveled companion could reveal the area. The book is enhanced with numerous evocative illustrations of the sights/scenes encountered, as well as a map of the area so you can follow along.
I greatly enjoyed this book - for some pleasant hours, I felt like I WAS in Scotland. The "journey" was all too short, and I hope that this book might start a new genre, not only from this author but from others...
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