Expeditions to the Hebrides

by George Clayton Atkinson and David Quine

George Clayton Anderson (1808-77) was only twenty-three when he set out from Newcastle in 1831 with his brother, Dick, and the professional artist William Train to explore the Western isles and remote St Kilda. The following year he journeyed to the Shetlands and in 1833 returned again to Skye and the Western Isles while on his way to the Faroes. Atkinson was a keen naturalist, founder member of the Natural History Society of Northumberland and Durham...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1899272062
• ISBN13: 9781899272068
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: MacLean Press
• Length: 190 Pages