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J. Storer Clouston The Lunatic at Large

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S Clouston OBE, the son of psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an "old Orkney family", according to his obituary in The Scotsman. After being educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practised as a lawyer.Soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. He was also a historian, author of a great history of Orkney, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. His The Spy in Black was made into a successful film in the late 1930s. His First Offence was also filmed in France as Drôle de drame (directed by Marcel Carné, 1937). [mehr]

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J. Storer Clouston THE MAN FROM THE CLOUDS

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J S Clouston OBE, the son of psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an "old Orkney family", according [mehr]

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J. STORER CLOUSTON THE SPY IN BLACK

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J. Storer Clouston Vandrad the Viking The Feud and the Spell

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J. Storer Clouston The Lunatic at Large

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J S Clouston OBE, the son of psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an "old Orkney family", according [mehr]

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Samuel Laing Human Origins

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Samuel Laing (1780 – 1868) from Papdale in Orkney was a Scottish travel writer. He travelled in Scandinavia [mehr]

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J. Storer Clouston The Man From the Clouds

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S Clouston OBE, the son of psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an "old Orkney family", according to [mehr]

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Alastair Macleod Orkni

Il mito della creazione delle Orkni, anche La Favola di Morgana , Principessa e Regina , Veggente di tempo profondo

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Orkni; Al largo, della costa a nord della scozia si trova un altromondo. Questo e il mito della creazione di Orkney, un arcipelago di isole dal clima vigoroso e straripante di vita Morgana; Se la riva è una zona magica le numerose isole di Orkney sono sicuramente cinte con la magia , un potere invisibile che contiene una cultura. La Morgana, di leggenda arturiana era la regina delle Orcadi . Il suo nome significa , "Il cerchio magico del mare " (dal Brythonic , letteralmente " cana mor , " anello di mare ) . Ella ha governato queste isole Pitti prima dei Vichinghi . Alcuni dicono che era un potente regno , che lei era potente. Qualunque siano i motivi , la magia ne era probabilmentela causa . [mehr]

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W. A. CLOUSTON BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS SELECTED LARGELY FROM EASTERN SOURCES

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William Alexander Clouston (1843 – 23 October 1896) of Orkney was a 19th-century British folklorist.[1] A Supplement to Alliborne's Dictionary (1891, pp. 349–350), as quoted in Folklore,[1] gives the following biographical information: b. 1843, at Stromness, Orkney Islands, of an old Norse family, in early life was engaged in commercial pursuits in Glasgow and London, but relinquished these to engage in journalism and literature; he edited several Scotch provincial newspapers, 1871-79, and is a writer for the Glasgow Herald, Evening Times, &c. He has given particular attention to Oriental fiction and folklore, and contributed to Sir R. F. Burton's "Supplemental Arabian Nights" analogues and variants of some of the tales in vols. I-III. [mehr]

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alastair macleod Flight of the Soul

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A story of geese and men. In 2012 and 2013 a massive cull of wild geese was approved [mehr]

Stichwörter: the meaning of migration, geese, shooting, man's loss of contact with nature

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