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Hebridean Gurkha : walking the Outer Isles by Neil Griffiths is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hebridean Gurkha : walking the Outer Isles about?
Gurkhas are not often seen in the Western Isles; perhaps these were the first. Hebridean Gurkha tells the tale of what was to be much more than a walking holiday for Neil and five Gurkhas. As the boys set off in heavy rain across the low peat bogs of Lewis, they were to encounter the rocky hills of Harris before striding along the sweeping white beaches of the Uists under blue skies. Then on to the sand-ringed Isle of Barra where a boatman took them to their journey's end, Barra Head in the far
- Author
- Neil Griffiths
- Publisher
- Dunfermline, Scotland: Cualann Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780954441661
- Subjects
- History, Travel, Western
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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