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)
1 To the Island of Tides 00:12
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2 Preface 08:40
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3 Part 1. Chapter 1 10:16
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4 By the time we passed the last of the fenced… 10:36
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5 Chapter 2 07:57
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6 What Cuthbert saw, and whether or not it really was… 06:21
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7 Having discovered the sign for the real Brotherstone… 10:13
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8 Originally, guising at Hallowe'en did not involve… 09:42
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9 Chapter 3 10:17
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10 From the farm at Third, the old road began to climb… 09:06
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11 Continuity and attachment to place are rarely more… 12:58
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12 Some time around 522, before Columba sailed to… 12:22
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13 Beyond the mound, the long straight track… 13:07
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14 Chapter 4 14:04
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15 Particularly in dry summers, aerial photographs… 08:16
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16 As I followed Cuthbert through a landscape… 09:23
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17 Keeping the dead close can make the future… 10:32
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18 On the windswept rock that is Inner Farne… 12:09
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19 Now, this borders on Pythonesque pastiche… 09:24
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20 Chapter 5 11:03
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21 When I found myself at St Andrews University… 12:52
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22 Two bats were feeding, swooping around the porch… 09:21
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23 After spending time listening to the sounds… 09:09
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24 I wanted to walk beside the Tweed near a strange… 13:37
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25 Across the busy road that skirts the deep ditch… 11:03
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26 Little more than a mile downstream from Kelso… 11:12
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27 By contrast with me, my wife has led a very… 08:51
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28 Creation looked well that morning, man's as well… 11:03
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29 Chapter 6 09:05
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30 The map also marks the site of St Cuthbert's Chapel… 10:13
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31 As a historian I have always tried, as far as is possible… 08:56
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32 At the end of the seventh century, and for some… 06:51
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33 After 1860, Ford was almost entirely rebuilt… 08:19
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34 Chapter 7 09:31
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35 The night before I left to complete the last part… 09:01
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36 At a place appropriately named Blawearie… 10:47
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37 Near Gatehouse of Fleet, Trusty's Hill seems also to… 08:34
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38 All that exists to characterise the culture of these… 10:05
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39 Part 2. Chapter 8 11:43
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40 St Mary's Church is old. Some of its masonry dates to… 12:01
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41 Partly because surviving fragments of classical… 08:49
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42 Looking down at the ruins of the priory, the red… 08:46
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43 One of my earliest memories is of my dad… 09:14
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44 Chapter 9 09:06
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45 When I left the shelter of the porch, the wind… 09:05
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46 Aethelfrith's spectacular gains in the north… 11:38
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47 Domhnall Ban's nickname of 'Crosd' is a Gaelic… 11:32
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48 Chapter 10 08:31
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49 The Pathfinder map of Lindisfarne shows two wells. 10:15
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50 At the eastern end of the long beach a rudimentary… 11:17
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51 Near the end of the Crooked Lonnen… 02:59
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52 Chapter 11 10:32
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53 The word 'vellum' comes from velin… 10:38
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54 The castle first comes securely on record in 1548–9… 10:29
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55 Raids around the coastal communities continued… 10:59
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56 Bishop Aldhun was well connected locally with… 12:31
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57 Chapter 12 08:12
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58 As with the great abbeys of the Tweed Valley… 05:44
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59 Chapter 13 11:31
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60 We sailed between Brownsman Island and South… 07:28
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61 Beyond the lighthouse was a sheer drop to the sea… 08:37
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62 Epilogue 08:03
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63 As I walked the banks of the Tweed and Till… 08:56
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Total Playing Time: 10:13:44