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An invitation to escape London's summer heat sends J. Ewing Ritchie north to Greenock and aboard the Elena for a cruise among Scotland's western islands. Recalling the autumn of 1876, he combines a passenger's account of yacht travel with observations of the places reached along the way. His opening pages linger over the railway to Scotland, describing mountain scenery, engineering work and the changing views from the carriage.
At sea, weather shapes the daily arrangements. Rough Atlantic water leads to a sheltered night at Oronsay before the yacht continues to Portree, where a religious fast day closes the shops. Ritchie's eye moves between clouded hills, small harbours, local homes and encounters ashore. Readers interested in nineteenth-century travel will find both coastal description and a visitor's sometimes sharp judgments of island life.
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- Author
- J. Ewing Ritchie
- Reading time
- About 80 minutes
- Pages
- 38
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Travel Memoir
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