Lorne Campbell was an officer and enforcer for the outlaw biker club Satan's Choice for over 30 years, before patching over to the Hells Angels. The product of a violent childhood, with a hair-trigger temper and fearless nature, he just wanted a place to belong. In his time he's seen club life slip further into the criminal underworld and be transformed by cocaine dealing. He killed a rival biker to save his brothers and has been imprisoned for assault and drug trafficking. This is his story.
This is the definitive history of Canna, one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish islands. Fertile and with a sheltered harbour, Canna has played an important part in the story of the Hebrides. After the Reformation the island was of considerable importance to the Irish Franciscan mission of the 1620s and also the Jacobite risings before it was swept up in the tragedies of depopulation and clearances of the nineteenth century. Gifted to the National Trust in 1981, the island is currently undergoing something of a revival, with the creation of the St Edward Centre on Sanday, and the proposed developments of Canna House. Recent archaeological surveys and historical research has uncovered much new evidence about the island. Hugh Cheape of the Royal Museum of Scotland, who has been intimately involved in the Canna project, has fully edited the book. New contributions both update and fill out the account of the island.
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 5, 2010-Jan. 17, 2011, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Feb. 23-May 30, 2011, National Gallery, London (selected paintings only).
This is the definitive history of Canna, one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish islands and which has played an important part in the story of the Hebrides. This book covers the history of the island from the time of St Columba, who preached there in the sixth century, to the second half of the twentieth century. During the Middle Ages Canna was linked with the monastery of Iona, and was central to the political structure of the Lordship of the Isles. After suffering catastrophically during the Highland Clearances, the island has more recently become the hub of a revitalised interest in Scottish Gaelic culture whilst under the ownership of John Lorne Campbell and, since 1981, of the National Trust for Scotland.
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Here, for the first time, is a thorough critical appraisal of Hans Memling's forte - portraiture - that both illuminates and analyses his extraordinary craftsmanship and serene sensibility. Over thirty of Memling's most spectacular portraits form the core of the exhibition and this catalogue. Additional paintings unique to each venue have been chosen to illustrate topics of particular relevance to Memling's work: the exchange of influences with contemporary portraiture from Italy and Germany (Madrid); issues of patronage relating to donor-portraits (Bruges); and the role of the workshop in artistic production (New York). The superb reproductions are introduced by four essays from Till-Holger Borchert, Lorne Campbell, Paula Nuttall and Maryan Ainsworth, and are accompanied by detailed, explanatory entries that throw new light on Memling's techniques and aims.
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