The Cairngorms

The Cairngorms

Infobox Book
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author = Adam Watson
illustrator = James Renny
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country = Scotland
language = English
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publisher = The Scottish Mountaineering Trust
release_date = 1928
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media_type = Hardcover
pages = 302
issn = [SBN] 901516 90 2
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The Cairngorms is a book published in various editions from 1928, intended as wide-ranging ‘handbook’ for walkers and climbers, that describes the geology, and geography of the mountainous region of Scotland known as the Cairngorms, and its surrounding areas.

Editions

1975

Although entitled "The Cairngorms", this edition at least, covers the whole north-east of "Scotland". It is a useful reference for finding places, and place-names in the "Cairngorms" that don't appear on any maps, or are miss spelled. Adam Watson has paid special attention to correct spelling of these places, and place-names, and giving "local" pronunciations for them - emphasising local:

It is interesting that he is not giving the "Gaelic" pronunciations, which could be obtained from any "authority" on the language, but he has "collected" the local-"Gaelic" pronunciations of these places, and place-names. For example - when discussing Beinn a' Bhùird he gives the local-pronunciation as "Paing Bòrd" when the wider typical pronunciation is more like "Ben a Voord".


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