Author(s): Moffat, Alistair
Reader(s): Rintoul, David
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0455
Barcode: 9781781983157
Release Date: 08/2019

MOFFAT, A.: To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne (Unabridged)

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Moffat, Alistair - Author
Rintoul, David (Reader)
1To the Island of Tides00:12
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2Preface08:40
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3Part 1. Chapter 110:16
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4By the time we passed the last of the fenced…10:36
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5Chapter 207:57
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6What Cuthbert saw, and whether or not it really was…06:21
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7Having discovered the sign for the real Brotherstone…10:13
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8Originally, guising at Hallowe'en did not involve…09:42
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9Chapter 310:17
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10From the farm at Third, the old road began to climb…09:06
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11Continuity and attachment to place are rarely more…12:58
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12Some time around 522, before Columba sailed to…12:22
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13Beyond the mound, the long straight track…13:07
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14Chapter 414:04
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15Particularly in dry summers, aerial photographs…08:16
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16As I followed Cuthbert through a landscape…09:23
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17Keeping the dead close can make the future…10:32
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18On the windswept rock that is Inner Farne…12:09
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19Now, this borders on Pythonesque pastiche…09:24
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20Chapter 511:03
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21When I found myself at St Andrews University…12:52
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22Two bats were feeding, swooping around the porch…09:21
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23After spending time listening to the sounds…09:09
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24I wanted to walk beside the Tweed near a strange…13:37
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25Across the busy road that skirts the deep ditch…11:03
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26Little more than a mile downstream from Kelso…11:12
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27By contrast with me, my wife has led a very…08:51
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28Creation looked well that morning, man's as well…11:03
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29Chapter 609:05
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30The map also marks the site of St Cuthbert's Chapel…10:13
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31As a historian I have always tried, as far as is possible…08:56
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32At the end of the seventh century, and for some…06:51
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33After 1860, Ford was almost entirely rebuilt…08:19
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34Chapter 709:31
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35The night before I left to complete the last part…09:01
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36At a place appropriately named Blawearie…10:47
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37Near Gatehouse of Fleet, Trusty's Hill seems also to…08:34
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38All that exists to characterise the culture of these…10:05
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39Part 2. Chapter 811:43
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40St Mary's Church is old. Some of its masonry dates to…12:01
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41Partly because surviving fragments of classical…08:49
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42Looking down at the ruins of the priory, the red…08:46
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43One of my earliest memories is of my dad…09:14
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44Chapter 909:06
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45When I left the shelter of the porch, the wind…09:05
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46Aethelfrith's spectacular gains in the north…11:38
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47Domhnall Ban's nickname of 'Crosd' is a Gaelic…11:32
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48Chapter 1008:31
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49The Pathfinder map of Lindisfarne shows two wells.10:15
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50At the eastern end of the long beach a rudimentary…11:17
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51Near the end of the Crooked Lonnen…02:59
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52Chapter 1110:32
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53The word 'vellum' comes from velin…10:38
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54The castle first comes securely on record in 1548–9…10:29
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55Raids around the coastal communities continued…10:59
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56Bishop Aldhun was well connected locally with…12:31
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57Chapter 1208:12
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58As with the great abbeys of the Tweed Valley…05:44
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59Chapter 1311:31
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60We sailed between Brownsman Island and South…07:28
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61Beyond the lighthouse was a sheer drop to the sea…08:37
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62Epilogue08:03
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63As I walked the banks of the Tweed and Till…08:56
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Total Playing Time: 10:13:44