The Slate Islands lie off the west coast of Argyll. Slate has been taken from these shores from their earliest recorded history and the richness and quality of the deposits meant that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries slate quarrying was one of the most important industries in Scotland.
The Breadalbane family owned the land of Easdale and its surrounds for over 400 years and of course roofed their own buildings in slate as well as may important buildings, including Cawdor Castle in Inverness-Shire and Glasgow Cathedral.
The geology, the industry, the people and their way of lie: this is the story of the Slate Islands past, present and future.
- ISBN10 0946487766
- ISBN13 9780946487769
- Publish Date 29 April 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Luath Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 192
- Language English